Kafil Kadvekar and Prapti Patil at Gadre Gaspar Dias Open 2023.
PANAJI
Mixed doubles partners Kafil Kadvekar and Prapti Patil stormed into the finals of Gadre Gaspar Dias Open 2023 while Siddhesh Khade overcame a tough challenge to defeat Sankalp Pawar in three sets to also reach the finals of the boys' under-16 category.
Kafil and Prapti defeated Sonu Todu and Ahana Patil 4-1, 4-1 to reach the finals. Khade won the first set 4-2, lost the second 3-4 in a tie-breaker and won the last set 10-7 in another tense tie-breaker against Pawar.
In the ladies' singles category, Simran Bundela reached the semifinals of the tournament, defeating Ahana Patil 6-2, while in other rounds in the same category, Aishwarya beat Neha 6-0 and Prapti beat Tanya 6-0 to reach the semifinals.
In the four boys' under-16 quarterfinals matches, Arhan Inamdar beat Darsh 6-2, Sarthak beat Akshobhya 6-0, Siddhesh beat Krishna 6-1 and Sankalp beat Atharv 6-1. In the previous round matches played in the same category, Sarthak beat Uttam 6-0 and Atharv beat Samarth 6-2.
In other quarterfinal matches played in the boys under-12 category, Akhilesh beat Shaurya 6-2, Aditya beat Noah 6-0, Kyan beat Ishaan 6-3 and Harshit Meghani beat Vivaan Agrawal 6-3. In earlier round matches played in the same category, Shaurya beat Alec 6-0, Noah beat Arhan G 6-2, Kyan beat Ethan 6-2 and Harshit beat Adarsh 6-0. In the girls' under-12 category, Tanvi beat Nishi 6-3.
In the girls' under-16 category, Ahana beat Tithee 6-1 and Aishwarya beat Bhakti 6-0 while in the boys' under-12 category, Shaurya beat Alec 6-0, Noah beat Arhan G 6-2, Kyan beat Ethan 6-2 and Harshit beat Adarsh 6-0.
In the mixed doubles quarterfinals, Mika/Simran beat Nagesh/Neha 4-0, 4-0 and Arshad/Aishwarya beat Tejas/Stania 7-5 after Prapti/Kafil beat Harshvardhan/Nidhi 6-0 and Tejas/Stania beat Aman/Nona 6-3 in previous rounds. Vikrant reached the men's singles semifinals, defeating Ravindra 4-3, 4-1 while in the men's doubles matches Tejas/Nishad beat Prajat/Anuj 6-0 and Vikrant/Siddhant beat Mika/Aman 6-4.
