The 16th Monsoon Regatta at Hussain Sagar Hyderabad started with 127 sailors in 7 categories

The morning saw 18 to 20 knot winds typical of the monsoons and the sailors were joyful with the early arrival of the season bringing with it fresh winds and little rain and perfect conditions after a a pre regatta warm spell with no winds 

The under 15 sub juniors proved to be a two horse race with Shreya Krishna of Tamilnadu and local girl Lahiri Kommaravelly battling it out neck to neck in all 3 races and finishing within a whisker of each other 

In the first two races Lahiri led till the last 2 legs only to me beaten to the finish by Shreya . The last race Shreya was tightly challenged across the race but Shreya led  start to finish and Lahiri followed close behind not able to cut the lead

Shreya Krishna of Tamilnadu has trained significantly abroad for more than a 100 days is India’s favourite at both the oncoming Asians and Worlds 

Lahiri is soon off to Malaysia for the Langkawi Youth international and the tight pacing at the Monsoon Regatta will only help improving her search for a second international medal after the Oman International last year 

Both girls are in  top form  and it promises to be a hotly competitive regatta for Gold and Silver. 

In the boys local lad Rizwan Mohammad tops the leaderboard followed closely by Krishna of Tamilnadu making both boys and girls a Tamilnadu vs Telangana at least for day 1 in the sub juniors Optimist championships 

In the under 19 juniors Karthik Korrola and Hruday of the Navy youth team from NYSC GOA proved supreme in the 29er skiff class winning 2 races by a margin and a second in the third race

Sharanya Yadav of NYSC Goa also cracked the code and won all three of his races and reigns supreme over the boys under 19 laser fleet as expected 

Top seeds and Telangana sailors Thanuja Kameshwar and Shravan stole the show on the under nineteen mixed double class winning all 3 races of the day followed by compatriots Deekshita Komaravelly and Ganesh Peerkatla 

Most of the winners from Hyderabad have fitness coaches  from Suchitra academy and are from Udbhav school at Rasoolpura 

Results tally at end of Day 1 

SUB Juniors Girls 

Shreya Krishna       TN         2 
Lahiri Komaravelly  TS         4 
Chandralekha Tarttari TS   14 

Sub Junior Boys 

Rizwan Mohammad        TS    7 
Krishna                            TN   8
Ravi Nayak Palthya         TS  10 

Juniors under 19 mixed doubles 

Thanuja and Shravan    TN      2
Deekshita and Ganesh   TN     4
Samriddhi and Parth       MP    5

Juniors under 19 boys Skiffs 

Hruday and Kartik NYSC GOA        2 
Vikram and Shivam   NYSC Goa     4 
Ajay Gajji Satyam Jha  NYSC Goa   5

Under 18 Laser Boys

Sharanya Jhadav  NYSC GOA              2
Ramakant                NYSC GOA            3
Vasu Chandravamshi  NSS Bhopal MP 4