Abdul Jabbar Faisal
ISLAMABAD:-Dev Kanbargimath from Romania pairing with Arila Kayra Tuna from Turkey have won the Doubles’ title of the ITF Pakistan AJ Towers World Junior Tennis Championship after beating Nikita Bortnichek from Russia pairing with his compatriot Ruslan Serazhetdinov 2-1 at PTF-SDA Tennis Complex Islamabad on Friday. The final score-line was 6-3, 4-6 and 11-9.
In the Doubles’ final, in the opening set Dav and Arial took a early lead by 4-1 breaking the 4th game of Ruslan and continue the same pressure to take a lead of 1-0 set. In the second set, both teams were exhibited excellent tennis by holding their serve 4-4 games all. Nikita & Ruslan managed to break the 10th game of Dev and Arial and leveled the match 1-1 set all. In the deciding super tie break, Dev and Arial took a flying start to take the lead 6-1 but Nikita and Ruslan fought back aggressively and leveled the score 9-9 all but unable to manage the streak and lost next two points. Match lasted 1 hour 20 minutes.
Earlier in the morning session, 2nd Seed Munisa Ashurekova of Uzbekistan paring with Melisa Ugur from Turkey annexed the Girls Doubles title by eliminating the top seeded duo of Andra Izabella from Romania and Olga Sorochkina from Russia in a 3-sets thriller 6-1 2-6 10-7 which lasted 1 hour 6 minutes. In the opening set, Munisa and Melisa displayed excellent tennis with a combination of cross court and down the line shots and did not allow their opponent to settle down with breaks of serve in the 3rd, 5th and 7th game of Andra and Olga.
In the second set Andra and Olga fought back aggressively and took revenge in the same fashion by breaking the 4th, 6th and 8th game of Munisa and Melisa. The deciding super tie break saw some exhilarating tennis as both the teams played incredible shots. Munisa and Melisa managed to take an early lead 6-3 and continued the winning spree till they took the set and match at 10-7.
Results:
Boys Doubles Final
Dev Kanbargimath (ROU) & Arila Kayra Tuna (TUR) beat Nikita Bortnichek (RUS) & Ruslan Serazhetdinov (RUS) 6-3, 4-6, 11-9
Girls Doubles Final
Munisa Ashurekova (UZB) & Melisa Ugur (TUR) beat Andra Izabella Sirbu (ROU) & Olga Sorochkina (RUS) 6-1, 2-6, 10-6.
