Nandini on a roll,enters quarters in bothU-18 singles and doubles

In both the matches,Gurmehar Kaur was on the receiving end as Nandini completed bamboozled her opponent with her superior technique and hitting prowess.

Gayatri Kumariah was not far behind Nandini and also registered a hard-fought 9-7 victory over Dimarjeet Kaur,to enter the next round in girls’ U-18 singles category. Charvi Saxena also came up with an inspiring performance and outclassed Shrishti Dhanda 9-1,to saunter ahead. Meanwhile,CLTA trainees continued to enjoy a purple patch in the tournament. Sabrang Sandal,a CLTA trainee,looked in imperious form and trounced his opponent Abhimanyu Rozra 9-1 in the boys’ Under-14 age category,to move ahead. Another CLTA trainee,Calvin Golmei,produced a clinical performance and without losing a single game,thrashed Gaurav Seth 9-0,to move into the next round.

However,there were few heartbreaks also. Rishabh Sharda was shown the exit door in boys’ Under-14 age category by Aditya Vashisht who registered a hard-fought 9-6 win over the CLTA trainee. Seerat Pannu went down fighting 8-9 (5)

to Aarushi Kakkar in a tough encounter .

Results:

Boys: U-14: 2nd Round: Ankit Rao bt. Sehaj Sidhu 9-3,

Aditya Vashisht bt. Rishabh Sharda 9-6,Calvin Golmei

bt. Gaurav Seth 9-0,Lakshay Gupta bt. Harshit Yadav 9-

2,Anmol Rattan Kamboj bt. Ishan Sethi 9-5,Gurjot

Singh bt. Shivam 9-0,Sahishnu Sharma bt. Siddharth

Kanchustam 9-4,Sabrang Sandal bt. Abhimanyu Rozra

9-1; Girls: U-14: 2nd Round: Seerat Pannu bt. Saisha

Khanna 9-2,Tanya Batra bt. Nandini 9-2,Seerat Sidhu

bt. Adity Dogra,Bani Singh bt. Ashpreet Bajwa 9-0,Jannat

Khurana bt. Raahat Mangat 9-1,Prakriti Bainwani

bt. Priyanka Khanna 9-1,Itika Shama bt Hanshika. 9-6,

Simran Pritam bt. Jahnavi Shivran 9-5; Girls: U-18: 2nd

Round: Gayatri Kumraiah bt. Simarjeet Kaur 9-7,Shivangi

Sharma bt. Ankita Ghotar 9-4,Seerat Sidhu bt.

Rubani Ahluwalia 9-2,Pooja Maurya bt. Jahanvi Shivran

9-1,Nandini Sharma bt. Gurmehar Kaur 9-3,Bhavya

Wadhwan bt. Prakriti Bainwani 9-4,Charvi Saxena bt.

Shrishti Dhanda 9-1,Aarushi Kakkar bt. Seerat Pannu 9-

8 (5); Boys: U-18: 2nd Round: Jajbir Singh bt. Digvijay

Pratap 9-5,Ravinder Singh bt. Krishna Rajput 9-4,

Param Pun bt. Jagtar Singh 9-4,Anmol Gupta bt. Akhil

Bansal 9-2,Eklavya Singh bt. Kanishka Garg 9-2,Udyan

Bhakar bt. Jotpal Singh 9-8 (4),Jagmeet Singh bt. Azad

Singh 9-5,Dalvinder Singh bt. Digvijay Naruka M. 9-0;

Boys: U-18: 1st Round: Doubles: Dalwinder Singh/Jajbir

Singh bt. Vikas Berwal/Barun Gill 4-1,4-2;

Dushyant/Surya Singh bt. Mayank Sharma/Parasdeep

Virk 4-1,4-2; Jagmeet Singh/Anmol Gupta bt. Aman

Pandoh/Durgesh Aggarwal 4-1,5-3; Manjot

Singh/Karan Thind bt. Mayank Yadav/Ankit Rao 4-1,4-

0; Digvijay Pratap/Sultan Atwal bt. Harish Bera/Amrit

Bhinder 4-0,4-0; Calvin Golmei/Jagdeep Bajwa bt. Kanishka

Garg/Azad Singh 4-2,4-1; Akhil Bansal/Jotpal

Singh bt. Sahishnu Sharma Abhimanyu Rozra 4-2,4-0;

Raghav Jai Singhania / Param Pun bt. Jagtar

Singh/Ravinder Singh 2-4,4-1,8-6; Girls: U-18: 1st

Round: Doubles: Bhavya Wadhawan/Aarushi Kakkar

bt. Sharishty Dhanda/Khushbeen Kaur 4-0,4-1; Shivangi

Sharma/ Aishwarya bt. Jahanavi Shivran/Komaljeet

Kaur 3-5,5-3,8-6; Priyam Kumari/Sofia Khan bt. Twenty

Nehra/Ankita Ghotar 4-0,2-4,7-2; Nandini/Simran Pritam

bt. Bhavya Sangri/Ikshika Sangri 4-1,4-0; Rubani

Ahluwalia/Tanya Batra bt. Charvi Saxena/Saumya Saxena

3-5,4-1,7-2; Pooja Mourya/Simarjeet Kaur bt. Aarti

Nayan/ Nikita Kharangra 4-0,4-0; Pious

Moudgill/Mariyam Gracias bt. Bindu Kulharia/Priyanka

Jakhar 4-1,4-1; Nandini Sharma/Gayatri Kumaraiah bt.

Gurmehar Kaur/Bani Singh 4-2,4-2;

Boys: U-14: 1st Round,Doubles: Sabrang

Sandal/Rishabh Sharda bt. Sidharth Goel/Vikramaditya

Kadian 4-0,4-0; Savneet Singh/Dhruv Sharma bt.

Pranav Chopra/Udayveer Singh 4-0,5-4 (4); Yuvraj

Kooka/Chaitanya Choudhary bt. Harshit Yadav/Lakshay

Gupta 1-4,4-1,8-6; Bhupinder Dahiya/Shashikant bt.

Vatsal Chauhan/Aishwaray Goel 4-0,4-1; Gaurav

Seth/Shreyas Chopra bt. Arunab Singh/Jasmol Arora 4-

1,4-2; Gurjot Singh/Aditya Vashisht bt. Abhay

Mohan/Rohit Malik 4-0,4-0; Sehaj Sidhu/Akshit Chabra

bt. Saurabh Prashar/Karan Bhalla 0-4,5-4 (0),7-5; Anmol

Rattan Kamboj/Kabir Manrai bt. Chiraz

Singh/Shivam Vij 5-3,4-2.