Mintri gets the better of Rawal

Madhurja Dutta shown the door by Naveen Anand NEW DELHI: Aayush Mintri of Punjab defeated the tenth-seeded Nischay Rawal of Chandigarh 7-6(4), 6-2 in the first round of the DSCL National mini-junior tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Monday. The 11th seeded Madhurja Dutta of Assam was also shown the door by lucky-loser Naveen Anand of Haryana at 6-3, 6-0 in another first round encounter. In the girls event, Tarannum Handa has been seeded No.1 and given a bye in the first round. The results: Under-14 boys (first round): Ronit Bisht bt Tejas Kapoor 6-0, 6-0; Himanshu Sagar bt L. Anuraag 6-2, 6-3; Atul Sri Patel bt Sahil Deshmukh 6-4, 6-0; T. S. Jude Raymond bt Karan Bidani 6-0, 6-1; Sidhant Deka bt M. S. Rakshit 6-0, 6-2; Sumit Nagal bt Jatinder Singh 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; S. D. Prajwal Dev bt Marcos Gomes 6-0, 6-1;... [read full story]