Ranjeet saunters ahead

Ranjeet Singh,a CHART trainee of CLTA,hushed his way past Sohrab Kunwar 6-1,6-2 to enter the round of 16 on the opening day of the CLTA-AITA Rs 1 lakh men’s and women’s tennis tournament,at the CLTA Stadium in Sector 10 on Monday. Meanwhile,Pranav Suri humbled another CLTA trainee Digvijay Naruka 6-1,6-1,to gain entry into the round of 16. Barun Gill defeated Sahil Bindal 6-2,6-2 in another lop-sided encounter. Nikita Bishnoi,Gayatri Kumariah and Bhavya Wadhwan also registered victories.

Results: men’s: 1st round: Pranav Suri bt Digvijay Naruka 6-1,6-1; Brahmjot Singh bt Sahil Sachdeva 6-2,6-2; Ankush Arora bt Vijay Bhardwaj 6-3,6-2; Rahul Singh bt. Vishwanath Savadi 6-2,6-3; Sunil K. Sipaeya bt Rishabh Dev 6-2,7-5; Allan Gomes bt Suraj Desai 7-5,6-0; Bharat Bhardwaj bt Dipanshu Garg 6-2,6-0; Ranjeet Singh bt Sohrab Kunwar 6-1,6-2; Mandeep Kumar bt Shikhar Gaddh 7-6(3),6-2; Rohit Sarwate bt. Krishna Rajput 6-2,6-1; Harinder Bedi bt Rahul Seth 6-4,6-2; Barun Gill bt. Sahil Bindal 6-2,6-2; Suraj Beniwal bt Jitin Bishnoi 6-4,6-1; Gurvinder Mann bt Mandeep Gill 6-4,6-1; Dhruv Goel bt Shrey Gupta 3-6,7-5,6-4; Yogesh Phogat bt Hardeep Sandhu 6-2,6-1

Women’s: 1st rd: Simran Wadhwa bt Silky Sachdeva 6-2,6-3; Rajbir Kaur bt Aashima Garg 6-2,6-1; Shehnaz Singh bt Saumya Saxena 6-0,6-2; Victoria Chehal bt Preetnain Grewal 6-1,6-0; Anupreet Bedi bt Protiksha Sharma 6-2,6-0; Steffy Primal Sangani bt Sanjampreet Kaur 6-2,6-4; Harsimran Kaur bt Vridhi Tuli 6-1,6-2; Ayna Arora bt Sanya Chibbar 6-0,6-1; Nikita Bishnoi bt Jasmine Singh 6-0,6-0; Gayatri Kumariah bt Dhara Bharat Thakor 6-2,6-1; Bhavya Wadhwan bt Sabrina Gill 6-1,6-2; Anukriti Chaudhary bt. Neelanchal Gupta 6-1,6-2.