ITF Juniors: Samarth, a wild card entry, loses to Maricic of Croatia

At the CLTA Complex on Tuesday, Lovro Maricic of Croatia defeated wild card entrant Samarth Sahita 6-2, 6-3 in the boys' opening round of the ITF junior tennis competition.Fifth seed Yu-Chen Lin of Chinese Taipei overcame qualifier Vennela Reddy 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the opening round of the girls' competition.Kamesh Srinivasan $164,00 Challenger tennis: Nagal falls to Vavassori of Italy in the opening round. Andrea Vavassori, an Italian qualifier, defeated Sumit Nagal 6-7(1), 6-4, 7-5 in the opening round of the $164,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Canberra, Australia.

In the doubles pre-quarterfinals, Sumit and Lloyd Harris were also defeated. Rithvik Bollipalli and Niki Poonacha defeated Marco Cecchinato and Giovanni Fonio of Italy 6-3, 6-1 in the doubles pre-quarterfinal of the $82,000 Challenger in Bangkok, Thailand.At the CLTA Complex on Tuesday, Lovro Maricic of Croatia defeated wild card entrant Samarth Sahita 6-2, 6-3 in the boys' opening round of the ITF junior tennis competition.