It was also a day to remember for local girl Ravnoor Kaur who sailed into the girls’ u-16 singles final and girls’ u-14 doubles final. In the second semi-final of the u-16 singles category, Ravnoor Kaur, who had earlier ousted fourth seed Iktesh Chahal and eighth seed Jaspreet Kaur, outplayed second seed Baljinder Kaur of Punjab in straight sets 6-0, 6-4. Ravnoor will now face Eetee Mehta in the girls’ u-16 final. In the girls’ u-16 doubles final, the duo of Bhavika Wadhawan and Ravnoor Kaur will face Iktesh Chahal and Pooja A Narayana.

In the first semi-final, the duo of Bhavika Wadhawan and Ravnoor Kaur powered to a 7-6(1), 7-5 victory over Baljinder Kaur of Haryana and Sabatini Ankaraju of Andhra Pradesh. They will meet the duo of Iktesh Chahal of Chandigarh and Pooja A Narayana of Delhi who defeated Vaibhavi Trivedi and Eetee Mehta of Gujarat in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.

In the boys’ under-16 final, top seed Naveen Kumar of Uttar Pradesh will face third seed Gurinder Singh of Punjab. In the first semi-final, top seed Naveen Kumar sailed past fifth seed Naveen Shanker of Chandigarh with a 6-2, 6-3 win. However second seed Maninder Singh of Haryana was stunned by third seed Gurinder Singh of Punjab who recorded a 6-3, 6-4 win in the second semi-final.

In the boys’ u-14 singles category, Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association trainee third seed Digvijay Singh Naruka marched into the final with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 triumph over Sunny Dahiya of Haryana. After winning the first set, Naruka was stretched in the second set before he won the final set by 6-2. in the second semi-final, second seed Kamal Kishore Maderena of Rajasthan could not prevent a 6-2, 6-1 mauling by Vilash Khate of National Tennis Academy.