
Telangana Today reports that Aheel Mohammed of Telangana and Kanishka Govind of Tamil Nadu won the boys' and girls' singles titles at the AITA National Series Under-14 tennis tournament in Hyderabad. Kanishka…
Telangana Today reports that Aheel Mohammed of Telangana and Kanishka Govind of Tamil Nadu won the boys' and girls' singles titles at the AITA National Series Under-14 tennis tournament in Hyderabad. Kanishka also clinched the girls' doubles title, partnering Trisha Bhosale of Maharashtra. In the boys' singles final, Aheel beat Kabir Gundecha of Maharashtra 7-6 (3), 6-2. Kanishka defeated G. Aneeshka of Telangana 6-0, 6-4 in the girls' final. The boys' doubles title went to S. Nihal Reddy of Karnataka and Neev Sheth of Maharashtra.
Indian tennis fans are quick to anoint junior champions as the next big thing. But winning a National Series Under-14 event, while creditable, is no guarantee of senior success. The real test is consistency over the next three to four years in the under-16 and under-18 circuits. Will these players break into the national rankings and stay there? That number, their top-100 juniors ranking a year from now, will tell us more than a Saturday trophy.
Source: telanganatoday.com
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