MARGAO: Nine-year-old Devaansh Naik and Kailvalya Devaraya marched to the next round of the ongoing Baale BPS Open 2024, in Margao, in the under-14 boys event.
Devaansh, a student of The Podar International school, Panelim, defeated Ivan Henriques 6-1 to qualify for the quarterfinals, while Kaivalya, a student at The Learning Centre, Ucassaim, defeated his opponent, Samik Satardekar, 6-4.
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In other matches in the boys under-14 event, Vedant Naik beat Vidaal de Menezes 6-2 to enter the quarterfinals. Isaac Carvalho defeated Sairaj Narvenkar 6-3, Ivan Henriques defeated Aymer Fernandes 6-0, Vidaal de Menezes beat Vihaan Krishnan 7-5, Tarshish defeated Arion Rodrigues 6-2, Adianta Devaraya beat Aarav J 6-1, Arsh Sardesai slugged it out against Aragya Goyal to win 7-5 while Arhan Gaunkar beat Adianta Devaraya 6-2 and Alec Baretto beat Arsh Sardesai 6-4.
In the men’s singles event matches, Sachin Ambre, Anurag Agrawal, Nishad Shevde and Pankaj Naik defeated their rivals Ojasvi Mann, Sidney, Sreenath Sreenivasan and Dunstan Dias, respectively, with identical scores of 6-2, while Joshua Pereira and Chandrakant beat Dmitry Smirnov and Pratham Fadte 6-4, respectively, in two separate encounters. In other matches in the same event, Raoul Vas beat Allan Fernandes 6-1, Avadhut Palekar defeated Sanjay Varak 6-1, Akhil Shirwaikar defeated Filbert Pereira 6-0, Punit Fadte beat Siddharth choudhary 6-1 and Raju Kundaikar defeated Akhil L 6-1, even as Akhil Shirwaikar beat Sachin Ambre 6-3, Anurag Agrawal ousted Chandrakant 6-2 and Siddharth Nunes blanked out Pankaj Naik’s challenge 6-0.
