PSA Challenger Tour: It’s repeat of Chennai present at Noida leg on Tuesday

Familiar foes will meet once more within the closing of the HCL-SRFI Indian tour-Noida leg, a PSA Challenger Tour occasion, on the Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida on Tuesday.
Top seeds Sunayna Kuruvilla of Chennai and Tanvi Khanna of Delhi will prolong their rivalry for the second straight closing within the girls’s class whereas Chennai’s Velavan Senthilkumar, No. 3 and Mumbai’s Abhishek Pradhan, No.4, will conflict once more in males’s class.
In the Chennai leg which concluded 10 days in the past, Tanvi and Velavan had been the winners.
On Monday within the semifinals, Sunayana was two up and neck and neck within the third earlier than Jindal Academy trainee Urwashi prevailed and went on to win the third and pocketed the fourth too. In the decider too leads modified until the final earlier than Urwashi dedicated couple of enforced error and Sunayana gained a stroke to win 11-9, 11-9, 11-13, 7-11, 11-8 after 36 minutes of engrossing battle.For Chennai lady, 22, that is her second straight closing and the fifth closing since he turned professional in 2017. Meanwhile, Tanvi who met a younger rival in Anjali Semwal confronted little resistance profitable at 11-8, 11-5, 11-5 in 21 minutes to ebook her second closing place.
In the boys’s semifinal, sixth seeded Rahul Baitha with an upset win over second seeded Aadit Zaveri underneath his belt, tried his greatest to push Velavan and the Jindal trainee managed to an extent however that was for a quick time. Soon Velavan discovered his rival’s recreation plan and demolished it very quickly to win 11-4, 11-8, 11-8 in half an hour.
In the second semis between mates Abhishek Agarwal and Abhishek Pradhan of Mumbai who’re additionally coaching companions and identified to one another since their junior days, it was Prdahan who had the final chuckle 11-7, Sept. 11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-5 on the finish of 58 minutes pitched battle.
“I’m feeling good after winning a tough match. And defeating a friend is also another feeling. We know each other’s game very well and one with minimum error carried the day,” Pradhan mentioned and added that he has learnt quite a bit from the defeat by the hands of Vela within the Chennai closing. “Lots of lessons learnt from that final match. I will try to put that in place to good effect. Let’s see. I hope it will be another day,” mentioned the 28-year-old Mumbaikar.
FINALS (from 11am)
WOMEN: 1-Sunayna Kuruvilla of Chennai vs 2-Tanvi Khanna of Delhi; MEN: 4-Abhishek Pradhan of Mumbai vs 3-Velavan Senthilkumar of Chennai.
Semifinal outcomes
Women: 2-Tanvi Khanna bt Anjali Semwal of Mumbai 11-8, 11-5, 11-5 (21m); 1-Sunayna Kuruvilla bt 3-Urwashi Joshi of Mumbai 11-9, 11-9, 11-13, 7-11, 11-8
Men: 3-Velavan Senthilkumar bt 6-Rahul Baitha of Mumbai 11-4, 11-8, 11-8 (32m); 4-Abhishek Pradhan bt 1- Abhishek Agarwal 11-7, Sept. 11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-5.