New format tough on league winners

The advantage is that players coming from far-away states get to play more than one match and have an even chance of qualifying for the main draw. In the earlier knockout format, they were most likely to be eliminated after one loss.

There are other players who feel that two days of qualifying rounds are tough as the winners will be required to play more important matches in the maindraw.

The only notable surprise of the day was the defeat of Moumita Dutta of Railways at the hands of Minu Dhawan of Punjab in Group 7. Minu won 21-18, 21-18. Some of the prominent winners included R Rajesh (TN), Rajiv Chai (Delhi), KS Chakravarty (TN), George Joseph (Mah), Souvik Dey, Vinay Chopra (Punjab), Deepak Thukral (Punjab), Subhajit Saha, S Sriram, S Ramaswamy (PSCB), Dheeraj Arora, Vinay Chopra and Himansh P Kala (all Delhi).
Doubles seedings: Men: 1 Chetan Baboor-S Raman 2 Soumyadeep Roy-Subhajit Saha 3 Arup Basak-Anal Kashyap 4 Shibaji Dutta-Ganesh Kundu 5 S Choudhary-Ranveer Das 6 Bhushan Thakur-Nipur Santra 7 Deepak Thukral-Vaneet Chopra 8 R Rajesh-G Deepak Kumar.Women: 1 Poulami Ghatak-Mouma Das 2 Anindita Chakraborty-Mantu Ghosh 3 MS Mythili-NR Indu 4 Bhuvaneswari-T Pradeepa 5 Debasmita Das-Kasturi Chakraborty 6 Sushmita Roy-Avanti Sinha 7 Ritu Ghorpade-Ekta Bhambri 8 A Radhika-Archana Vishwanath.
Mixed doubles: 1 S Raman-Poulami Ghatak 2 Arup Basak-Mouma Das.