Madhya Pradesh, Delhi women move up

On the other hand, Delhi’s Amarjeeet Kaur won her first singles match against Reeta Pathak of UP 11-1, 11-0. Amarjeet then paired up with Renu to beat the UP pair of Geeta Rani and Reeta Pathak 15-3, 15-0.

In the first round matches in the men’s section, Andhra Pradesh outclassed Assam 3-0. Prabhaker Reddy (AP) beat Firoze Hassan (Assam) 15-0, 15-2 while Iqbal (AP) beat Bisham Dhar (Assam) 15-3, 15-5. In doubles, Ganesh and Venkata (AP) defeated Pratnal Chaudhary and Bisham Dhar (Assam) 15-3, 15-6.

In another match, Haryana prevailed 3-1 over Vadodara (RSB). In the first singles, Vivek Dhankar beat B K Sharma 15-12, 12-7 and in the second Unikrishanan Vasine (Vadodara) beat Niraj Ahuja of Haryana 15-2, 15-11. In the first doubles tie, Vivek Dhankar and Surinder Jatrana (Haryana) defeated Unikrishanan and P Satyanarayan of Vadodara 15-5, 17-14.

In the last singles tie, Surinder Jatrana (Haryana) beat B H Valand (Vadodara) 15-1, 8-15, 15-12 to give his side the rubber.

Earlier in the first round match among women, Delhi beat RSB Chennai 2-0. Amarjeet Kaur (Delhi) beat Santha Kumari (Chennai) 11-3, 11-0 while in doubles the Delhi pair of Amarjeet and Renu blanked Shashi Kala and Santha Kumari 15-0, 15-0. In another match, Delhi Central Secretariat beat RSB Vadodara 2-0. Delhi’s Rakhi Meena beat TR Parmar (Vadodara) 11-3, 11-8 while Neera and Rakhi beat T R Parmar and Beena Kumari 15-2, 15-2.