Facile wins for seeded players

There was, however, a close battle to gain the upper hand in the match between Karan Patnaik and Gurdit Singh. Both were neck and neck. After 6-all, Karan played his heart out to win the contest 7-4.

Sahil Thapa also moved into the next round of under-16 category. Sahil defeated Aditya 6-3.

Ankush Sarin and Dilpreet scored facile victories over their opponents in the under-14 group.

Ankush beat Samarveer 6-1 while Dilpreet got the better of Rahul with the same scoreline.

The matches in the girls section would begin from January 21.

Results
Boys
Under-14 first round: Karan Choudhary bt Gurtej Pannu 6-4; Mohit D Singh bt Manjit 6-3; Sahib Dev bt Yuvraj Gulati 6-4; Ankush Sarin bt Samarveer 6-1; Harshverdhan bt Vaibhav Jain 6-4; Dilpreet bt Rahul 6-1; Bakul Kehra bt Randeep 6-2; Avneet bt Gaurav Kalra 7-6 7-5; Arash w/o from Jyot Singh; Dixit Arora bt Akhil V Laxman 6-1; Harkawal bt Sameer Aggarwal 7-6 7-5.
Under-16 first round: Chattvinder Singh bt Anshul Bhardwaj 6-1; Bakur Khera bt Gurtej Pannu 6-4; Karan Patnaik bt G Singh 7-6 7-3; Manish bt Sahib Dev 6-0; Sahil Thapa bt Aditya Ahuja 6-3; Ardaman Sidhu bt Anish Sharma 6-1; Kabir Krishan bt Varun Garg 6-2.