Mysuru, March 16 -- City's Padmapriya Ramesh Kumar finished runner-up in the ITF J60 Juniors World Ranking Tennis Tournament held at Gurugram in Haryana yesterday.

In the all Karnataka finals, 13-year-old Padmapriya lost to 17-year-old, No. 2 seed Snigdha Kanda of Bengaluru with a score of 4-6, 4-6. She performed well and made her to run full court, but could not get the crucial points during 4-4 and 4-5 in both the sets.

Padmapriya played well in the entire tournament showing her grit. She defeated No. 1 seed Prisha Shinde with 6-4, 6-1 in the semi-finals, No. 6 seed Angel Patel 6-3, 6-4 in the quarter-finals. Padmapriya did not drop a single set till the semi-finals displaying her dominance over top seeded players.

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