Aviators overcome early hiccups to beat Superstars
The Hindu
Challengers tied with Yoddhas in a Group B thriller
Sriram Balaji and Siddhant Banthia helped Indian Aviators overcome early hiccups to beat Sapphire Superstars 24-18 in a group-A league match of the Centena Pro Tennis League at the RK Khanna Stadium here on Tuesday.
After Balaji and Banthia had won their singles matches and combined to win the doubles as well against Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Prithvi Sekhar, it was left to the mixed doubles pair of Swarandeep Singh and Diva Bhatia to clinch the contest, with an entertaining 5-1 victory over Aditya Khanna and Riya Sachdeva.
In another match in group-A, the country’s No.1 player Ramkumar Ramanathan won his singles and doubles matches, but could not stop Pro Veri Supersmashers from being beaten 28-23 by Sankara thanks to the good work by Shivank Bhatnagar, Niyati Kukreti, Parikshit Somani and Ashish Khanna.
