Madhur leads Delhi charge

Madhur Kalia, whose best National performance was his quarter-final entry in New Delhi last year, showed his all-round ability while outplaying an off-colour Bakshi, a trainee with the BPL Academy in Bangalore. Moving fast and excelling at the nets, Madhur, who had finished second to brother Arjun in the Delhi State championship, rallied from a 9-11 and 11-12 deficits to take the first game in 20 minutes. Bakshi, who was extremely slow to reach the bird, was in the match till 5-all in the second but then faded away making a series of unforced errors.

Arjun Kalia first beat Kerala8217;s V Diju in the first round and then prevailed over Ajantha Choudhary of Assam 13-15, 15-2, 15-3 in the second round.

No 1 seed P Gopi Chand PSCB, No 2 seed Abhinn Shyan Gupta BAI and No 3 seed Nikhil Kanetkar and No 4 seed Sidharth Jain PSCB had easy outings in the second round.

RESULTS :

Men8217;s singles 2nd round: A Pridhvi AI bt Unnikrishna Varma Guj 15-2, 15-9; Ajit Wijetilak PSCB bt SS Kannan TN 15-4, 15-0; Rajeev Bagga Mah bt Pallav Deka Assam 15-9, 15-8; KA Anish Ker bt Anup Sridhar Kar 15-10, 15-8; Sanave Thomas Ker bt Ashish Chadha Del 11-15, 15-2, 15-7; Arjun Kalia Del bt Ajantha Choudhury Assam 13-15, 15-2, 15-3; Joy T Antony Kerala bt Amrish Shinde Rly 15-4, 15-2; Srikant Bakshi Rly bt Ranvir Singh Raj 15-6, 15-0; Sachin Ratti Rly bt Roy Mathew Rly 15-4, 15-6; JBS Vidyadhar AP bt Pravin Ghelawat Del 15-11, 17-15; N Sivaprakash Kar bt Vijay Khanna AP 12-15, 15-9, 9-2 conceded; Vivek Chandigarh bt Vivek Goutam Mah 15-8, 15-10; Kishore Kumar AP bt Harshal Shimpi BSB 15-9, 15-8; Abhijit N BSB bt Shafique Nawab Bih 15-5, 15-4; Nikhil Kanetkar PSCB bt Gibi Varghese MP 15-0, 15-2; Abhinn Shyam Gupta BAI bt Mohammed Salim Pun 15-0, 15-5; P Gopi Chand PSCB bt Rahul Sharma JK 15-5, 15-4; Sidharth Jain PSCB btRavinder Singh UP 15-10, 15-10; B Guruprasad BSB bt Ritesh Ranjan Bihar 15-10, 15-4; Vijay Lancy PSCB bt Vivek Tatwadi BSB 15-7, 15-4; Mitesh Harzanis Rly bt Raghu Prakash AP 15-6, 15-8; Opinder Pal Singh Rly bt Jaideep Kohli Pun 15-3, 15-5; Anup Vaidya Rly bt Devinder Dhillon Del 13-15, 15-1, 15-8; Sushant Saxena UP bt Sanjay Roy WB 15-9, 15-4; Alok Singh Mah bt Amit Mehrotra UP 15-8, 15-3; Thomas Kurien Ker bt Kunal M MP 15-4, 15-0; Amar Singh Guj bt Anna Srinivasan TN 15-2, 15-7; Jaison Xavier Ker bt Nimish Goel MP 15-8, 15-1; Mangrish Palekar Mah bt Sanjay Mishra MP 15-7, 15-4; Gourav Singh AI bt BG Kiran Kar 12-15, 15-13, 17-14; Chetan Anand AI bt Ram Lakhan Pun 15-3, 15-5; Madhur Kalia Del bt Abhishek Bakshi AI 15-12, 15-5.

Women 1st round: Sridevi Gadeli Kar bt Lucy Matha Naga 11-3, 11-6; Debashree Dey WB bt Varsha Upadhyaya UP 11-1, 11-1; Anumol Joy w/o Neha Mkhwane MP; S Srilakshmi AP bt Samarika Manhas JK 11-1, 11-1; Amrutha Bhattacharjee WB bt Lakshmi Del 11-1, 11-2; S Sukanya TN bt Radhika AP 11-4, 11-8; Nupura Bhide Mah bt V Nithya TN 11-2, 11-4; Merit George Kerala bt Priya Varma Raj 10-13, 11-4, 11-8; Swati Mughe Guj bt Meeta Bhandari Pun 11-9, 6-11, 11-5; Leena Pednekar Goa bt Aparna Balan Ker 11-3, 11-6; Swetha AI bt Bhavana Chd 11-0, 11-0.