According to information made available here on Saturday, Korea’s unseeded player Sa Rang Lim stunned top seed Andra Izabella Sirbu of Romania by 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 to win the girls singles title. Andra Izabella started well against Sa Rang and took 3-0 lead and continued her good show to comfortably win the first set 6-1. Sa Rang bounced back well against her opponent and put her under tremendous pressure to win the second set 6-2. The Korean dominated the third set as well and took it 6-4 to grab the title.
Unseeded Ivan Iutkin of Russia clinched the boys singles title by eliminating his opponent Mehmet Onur Turgut of Turkey by 6-4, 6-3, as the match lasted 1 hour 14 minutes. Both the players exhibited high standard of tennis and moved forward equally till it was 4-all. In the 9th game, Ivan Iutkin was down 0-40 but he changed his game plan and started playing aggressively, which helped him win the set 6-4.
PTF President Salim Saifullah Khan graced the occasion as chief guest, whereas ITF President Tariq Murtaza along with HE Ihsan Mustafa Yurdakul - Ambassador of Turkey, HE YerzhanKistafin - Ambassador of Kazakhstan HE Irena Gancheva - Ambassador of Bulgaria and diplomat from Russian Embassy and others were also present at the prize distribution ceremony and distributed prizes amongst the winners and runners-up.