Ayyan goes down fighting

Ayaan Malhotra showed doggedness and determination before going down fighting in the first round of the boys' under-12 singles at the Falcon Insurance Company-sponsored Annual Tennis Tournament. Nine-year-old Ayaan was staring at defeat trailing 3-7 when he showed staged a splendid rearguard action to level at 7-games all to take the match to the tie breaker. Ankith was on top of his game in the tie breaker which he won 7-3 for final score of 8-7 &7-3). Anusha Ravishankar gave Lakshmi Narayan anxious moments before the later held on to win 8-6. Top seed Yash Tanna notched up a convincing 8-1 victory over Shyam M, Anirudh Sriram blanked Glennmark Rodrigues 8-0, Hassan Haider was in his elements and handed Kaushak Ram a 8-0 defeat. Times Of Oman