The Tamil Nadu males’s tennis staff that gained gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Friday, 07 February 2025.
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Manish Sureshkumar discovered the Parade Floor courtroom and the ball a little bit too quick within the males’s staff closing of the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games tennis competitors right here on Friday night. And the 25-year-old was taking part in Karnataka’s robust Prajwal Dev, an opponent he had misplaced to each time in the previous couple of years and the second seed right here within the males’s singles.
However Manish pulled off a powerful three-set victory, to comply with up Abhinav Sanjiv’s hard-fought opening singles win, as Tamil Nadu jolted defending champion Karnataka 2-0 and lifted the lads’s title after a 10-year break.
Earlier, Maharashtra surprised two-time champion Gujarat 2-0 to take the ladies’s title.
Tamil Nadu’s Manish Sureshkumar celebrates after beating Karnataka’s Prajwal Dev within the males’s tennis staff closing on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Friday, 07 February 2025.
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RITU RAJ KONWAR
Prajwal had performed an enormous position in Karnataka’s overcome Tamil Nadu on the final Video games in Goa. And the Karnataka star regarded harmful as he made a pleasant comeback and grabbed the second set to take the match to the decider. However Manish broke his opponent within the sixth sport of the third set to take an important 4-2 lead.
“Bodily I used to be struggling a bit however after I bought that break of his serve within the third set, I bought the boldness that I can shut the match,” stated Manish.
“Usually, he likes to dictate loads, this time I needed to remain a little bit extra aggressive. I used to be a bit passive initially, however I realised that if I saved doing it I used to be not going to win the match. So I stepped up and attacked a bit extra.”
Maharashtra’s girls’s staff that gained the tennia gold on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Friday, 07 February 2025.
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RITU RAJ KONWAR
In the meantime, Vaishnavi Adkar shocked Nationwide champion Vaidehee Chaudhari in Maharashtra’s memorable win. Gujarat, which was searching for a hat-trick of Nationwide Video games girls’s staff titles after successful at residence in 2022 and in Goa in 2023, was in for a shock when Zeel Desai misplaced to Maharashtra’s Akansha Nitture within the opening singles.
And Vaishnavi, who got here in subsequent, had by no means gained in opposition to Vaidehee the 5 instances they’d performed one another earlier than.
“However going into the match, I wasn’t desirous about the previous matches…I simply went and performed my sport, I didn’t maintain again. I feel I performed fairly stable,” stated Vaishnavi who dominated the match, incessantly forcing her opponent into errors.
The outcomes (staff occasion, finals): Males: Tamil Nadu bt Karnataka 2-0 (S. Abhinav Sanjeev bt Rishi Reddy 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4; Manish Sureshkumar bt Prajwal Dev 7-5, 4-6, 6-3).
Ladies: Maharashtra bt Gujarat 2-0 (Akanksha Nitture bt Zeel Desai 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Vaishnavi Adkar bt Vaidehee Chaudhari 6-3, 6-3).
Printed – February 07, 2025 08:29 pm IST