Khanna, Kirrtane, Vasant win double crowns in ITF seniors event – Mumbai News | Sports,Tennis

Mumbai, Oct 8 : Fancied players Aditya Khanna, Nitin Kirrtane and Mayur Vasant lived up to the expectations in their respective age groups to walk away with double glory in the GSTA S200 ITF Mumbai 2021 tennis tournament here on Friday.

While all three had facile wins in their singles encounters, they were made to toil hard in the doubles finals, especially Khanna and his partner Vipin Sirpaul in the 35+ category, who were taken the distance by Ajai Selvaraj and Rewant Datta, but held their nerve at the crucial juncture to win in the super tie-breaker.

Kirrtane and partner Nikhil Rao complimented each other on the court to quell the challenge from Moorthy and Bhatia 6-1, 6-2 forRaos maiden ITF title.The womens singles title was won by Dr.Jyotsna Patel, who defeated Nazneen Rahman 6-2, 6-2.Khanna was expected to be given a tougher fight by Sandeep Pawar, who managed to stay in the game in the first set, but his legs gave away in the second and he lost 3-6, 0-6.Kirrtane and Mayur Vasant were just too good for their opponents N Choudhary and A Bharwadwaj respectively and scored easy, identical 6-1, 6-1 victories.The best match of the day was the 35+ doubles with Khanna and partner Sirpaul winning the first set 6-3.However Selvraj raised his game in the second, controlling the net to guide his mate Rewant and win 6-0 to level the match, They dominated the super tie-break to race to an 8-4 lead before it all unraveled for them.Rewant missed two sitters at the net and Khanna hot two winners to help them come from behind and win it 10-8.

Results (Singles all finals):Mens 35+: Aditya Khanna (1) bt Sandeep Pawar 6-3, 6-0.Mens 40+: Nitin Kirrtane (5) (bt) N Choudhary (1) 6-1, 6-1Mens 50+: Neelkanth Damre bt N Kankaria 6-2, 6-2Mens 60+: Manek.M (1) bt A Bharadwaj 6-1, 6-1Mens 70+: Kumar G (1) bt Tahir Ali (2)4-3 (conceded)Mens 35+ doubles: Aditya Khanna/Vipin Sirpaul bt Datta Rewant/Ajai Selvaraj 6-3, 0-6, 10-840+ doubles: Nitin Kirrtane/Nikhil Rao bt Anand Moorthy/Himanshu Bhatia 6-1, 6-250+ doubles: Bhushan Akut/Nishit Pandey bt Dinesh Laungani/Venugopal Manghat 7-5, 6-460+ doubles: Mayur Vasant/Rakesh Kohli bt Pawan Jain/B Negi6-3, 6-1 Womens singles: Dr.Jyotsna Patel bt Nazneen Rahman6-2, 6-2Doubles: Nazneen Rahman/Priyanka Mehta bt Jyotsna Patel/Neha Shah 6-2, 6-4 #Khanna #Kirrtane #Vasant #double #crowns #seniors #Mumbai.