Agnimitra Bhattacharjee is U-16 champion

Agnimitra Bhattacharjee

Agnimitra Bhattacharjee, 15, of Ryan Global School (Chembur) won the girls' U-16 singles crown with a 4-0 win over Mihika Rajadhyaksha of Aditya Birla World Academy (Tardeo) in the best-of-seven-games final of the MSSA inter-school tennis tournament at Bombay Gymkhana on Friday.

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The tall Agnimitra, with her powerful serves and ground strokes, packed too much firepower for Mihika. "I'm playing the MSSA tournament for the first time. My family came to Mumbai from Kolkata only five months ago, so this is a wonderful start. In Kolkata, I played many national level tournaments. I'm ranked 52 in the AITA [All India Tennis Association] rankings," an excited Agnimitra told mid-day.

Earlier, in the third-place match, Rajitha Rajesh of RN Podar School beat Mugdha Kondvilkar of Auxilium Convent 3-0. In the girls' U-12 final, Dhirubhai International's (BKC) Aishwarya Swaminathan outshone schoolmate Ira Pande 4-0. Kirtiyani Ghatkar of Lokhandwala Foundation (Kandivli) beat Shreeya Shetty of Rustomjee International (Dahisar) 3-2 to win third-place.

In the boys' U-12 final, Ansh Jalota of Chatrabhuj Narsee School beat Vidyut Sundar of Dhirubhai Ambani School 4-1, while Avi Misra of Jasudben ML School (Santacruz) won the bronze, beating Aarav Shah of Bombay International (Babulnath) 3-1.

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