Easy for seeded players

CHANDIGARH, April 30: Most of the seeded players entered the third round in both men's and women's section, respectively, on the opening ...

CHANDIGARH, April 30: Most of the seeded players entered the third round in both men8217;s and women8217;s section, respectively, on the opening day of the second prize money ranking carrom tournament, which got underway at the St Stephen8217;s School in Sector 45, here today.

Tejinder Harry blanked Varun Raghav 25-0, 25-0 while Devinderjit scored a facile 25-0, 25-0 win over Taruj Peter to assert their supremacy in the men8217;s section.

In the women8217;s group, top seed Saroj Chandel scored a 25-0, 25-0 win over Neetika to enter the third round.

Results
Men
Singles first round: Varun Raghav bt Gurpreet Singh 19-12, 25-0; Vaibhav bt Abhay Singh 24-4, 23-10; Taruj Peeter bt Akashdeep Anand 25-7; 25-4; Vinod Vashisht bt Amrinder Singh 25-4, 25-3; Gagandeep bt Ashok Kumar 25-8, 25-0; Tenzin Thinley bt Deepak 25-0, 25-3; Ramesh Wadha bt Gurinder Singh 23-6, 15-18, 25-11; Ravinder Kumar bt Neeraj Sharma 25-0, 25-4; Om Prakash bt Ashutosh 25-3, 25-11; DS Aithani bt Rhythem K Sharma 25-0, 25-0; Anu K Papneja bt Ashsih De 23-17, 25-0; Mandhir Singh bt GD Shourie conceded.
Second round: Tejinder Harry bt Varun Raghav 25-0, 25-0; Dilraj Singh bt Manmeet Singh 25-5 conceded; SP Janua bt Amanpreet Singh 25-8, 25-4; NK Arora bt Vaibhav 25-0, 25-0, Money Bansal bt Gursimran 25-0, 25-0; Abhishek Bansal walkover Rohit Ashokan; Ajay K Gupta bt Sumit 23-10, 23-20; Devinderjit bt Taruj Peter 25-0, 25-0, Badshah bt Hardeep Singh 25-0, 25-2; Amrinder Dhillon bt Harmanpreet Singh 16-10, 25-5; Gagandeep Singh bt Sudhir Sidhu 23-11, 16-11; Parveen Rastogi bt Puneet Grover 25-0, 25-0, Paramdeep bt Vijay Garg 25-0, 25-0; Baninder Singh bt Tenzin Thinley 25-0, 25-0; Mohd Tanveer bt Ramesh Wadha 25-2, 19-2; BS Negi bt Deepak Bansal 25-5, 25-14; Richie Yadav bt Ravinder Kumar 25-0, 25-8; Sukhman bt Sukhpal Singh 25-7, 25-0. Sanjay Negi bt Vinod Vashisht 25-16, 16-14, 19-11.

Women
Singles first round: Pallavi Pipalani bt Navjot Kaur 25-0, 25-0; Anshul Sharma bt Tejbir Kaur 25-0, 19-6; Inder Kanta bt Bhavna Duggal 25-0, 25-0, Monika Kamboj bt Birinderjeet Kaur 14-25, 9-7, 12-11; Heena Vinayak bt Upasana Kapoor 23-6 conceded; Prabhjot Kaur bt Gagandeep Kaur 25-5, 19-10; Puneet Lamba bt Navneet Kaur 25-0, 25-0; Kimberley Namion bt Savi Mahajan 20-5 conceded.
Second round: Saroj Chandel bt Neetika 25-0, 25-0; Pallavi Pipalani bt Harmeet Kaur 25-3, 25-2; Baljot Kaur walkover Jasmine; Bhavana Sachdeva bt Anshul Sharma 25-5, 15-5.