Six Indian gamers will participate on the 2023 junior Australian Open scheduled to be held from January 21 to twenty-eight in Melbourne.
The 2022 version, during which USA’s Bruno Kuzuhara and Croatia’s Petra Marcinko clinched the boy’s and woman’s singles titles respectively, didn’t have a single Indian participant within the draw.
India’s Yuki Bhambri had received the boy’s singles title in 2009.
Here is the listing of Indian gamers participating at this 12 months’s junior Australian Open
Girl’s Singles
Shruti Ahlawat
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World No. 84 Shruti Ahlawat is the top-ranked Indian junior in woman’s singles. The 16-year-old had her first style of junior Grand Slam tennis eventually 12 months’s Wimbledon the place she misplaced within the first spherical of qualifying. However, Shruti, who received the junior Asia/Oceania Championships in Pune in September final 12 months, the largest of her six ITF titles, has certified for the primary draw of the junior Australian Open.
Boy’s Singles
Aryan Shah
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World No. 44 Aryan Shah is the top-ranked Indian junior in boy’s singles. The 17-year-old right-hander will make his junior Grand Slam debut in Melbourne, simply two months after clinching her first ITF title at a J3 occasion in Sarawak, Malaysia.
Yuvan Nandal
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Just 5 locations beneath Aryan on this planet rankings is Yuvan Nandal. The 17-year-old right-hander clinched his first ITF title at a J3 occasion in Chandigarh and adopted it up with one other in Tashkent. Yuvan, too, will play in a junior Grand Slam for the primary time in his profession.
Manas Dhamne
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While simply 15 years previous, Manas Dhamne has already made his ATP Tour debut on the Tata Open Maharashtra, an ATP 250 occasion held in Pune earlier this month the place he was awarded a essential draw wildcard. Ranked 76th within the ITF World Junior Rankings, Manas is the reigning junior Asia/Oceania champion. He was additionally the U-12 winner of the celebrated Eddie Herr International Championship in 2019.
Right-handed Manas, who trains on the Piatti Tennis Centre in Bordighera, Italy, will make his junior Grand Slam essential draw debut in Melbourne.
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Kriish Tyagi
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Kriish Tyagi clinched 4 ITF titles on the junior circuit in 2022. The 15-year-old, who trains on the Harsha Lingappa Tennis Academy in Bengaluru, is World No. 141. Kriish additionally received the National U-18 Clay Court Championship in Chennai final 12 months, thus finishing a singular treble of the U-14, U-16 and U-18 nationwide titles inside the house of a 12 months and a half. Right-handed Kriish, who represented India at 2022 Junior Davis Cup Finals, will start his marketing campaign in Melbourne within the qualifying spherical.
Daksh Prasad
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Daksh Prasad, like Kriish, should undergo the qualifying spherical in Melbourne. The 17-year-old Daksh is ranked 202 on this planet. Last 12 months, right-handed Daksh reached his first ITF remaining at a J5 occasion in Nepal.