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NT Bureau
Chennai, Feb 24:

        Second seed Senthil Kumar rallied to beat Niranjan R Ram 0-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the under-18 boys' final of the UC MAS-Singaram Pillai junior State-ranking tennis tournament here yesterday.

        A Sharmila was doubly unlucky, losing the girls under-12 and under-14 singles finals to Sai Samitha and Maya Mahalingam respectively.

        Results: Boys Under-12 (final): Siddharth Reddy bt C Madan Mohan 6-2, 6-1; Semifinals: Siddharth bt Himanshu Sagar 6-1, 3-6, 6-2; Madan bt Shane Isaac 6-3, 6-1. Under-14: Final: Niranjan R Ram bt R Sai Avinash 6-4, 6-3; Semifinals: Niranjan bt Sabareesh Hariharan 6-0, 6-0; Sai Avinash bt Harish Ramakrishnan 6-2, 6-1.

        Girls: Under-12: Final: Sai Samitha bt A Sharmila 6-4, 6-4; Semifinals: Samitha bt Lavanya Saravanan 6-1, 6-3; Sharmila bt A Ankita 6-0, 6-0. Under-14: Final: Maya Mahalingam bt A Sharmila 6-3, 6-3; Semifinals: Sharmila bt Samitha 6-4, 6-4; Maya bt Lavanya Saravanan 6-0, 6-0.

        Under-18: Semifinals: Sindhu Nila bt Nivedha Sridhar 6-0, 6-1; Elodi bt I Niveda 6-0, 6-0.

        Children Under-10: Final: S Gokul bt N Sankara Narayanan 8-1.