Ojas mehlawat

Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship: Third seed Samarth Sahita and Aishwarya Jadhav of Maharashtra advanced to the semifinals in their respective categories in the ongoing junior week of the tournament of the 29th Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship at the DLTA Complex here on Thursday.

Maharashtra’s Samarth continued his unbeaten run in the boys' Under-16 singles category and dominated the quarterfinal match against Delhi’s Ojas Mehlawat from the beginning. He blanked Ojas in the first set before winning the second to cinch victory by 6-0, 6-3 in straight sets.

In the girls' Under-16 singles category, the eighth seed Aishwarya halted the dream run of Tamil Nadu’s Deepshikha Vinayagamurthy as she won the contest 6-1, 6-3 in straight sets to enter the last four of the tournament.