Nirmit destroys Parantap

MUMBAI, AUG 16: Except for eighth seed Parantap Chaturvedi Delhi, who suffered a shocking 1-6, 1-6 reverse against Nirmit Shetty Karna...

MUMBAI, AUG 16: Except for eighth seed Parantap Chaturvedi Delhi, who suffered a shocking 1-6, 1-6 reverse against Nirmit Shetty Karnataka, the other seeds ambled through in the boys first round of the India Pistons-KTC AITA Junior Tennis Championship at the Krishnan Tennis Centre here on Monday.

National under-14 champion, Parantap seems to be going through a crisis of confidence as he slid to his second consecutive first round defeat. He also lost in the first round of the junior Nationals recently.

Preethi Rao of Tamil Nadu produced the only upset in the girls section, bouncing statemate and sixth seed Vishnu Preetham 6-3, 6-2.

RESULTS

1st Round: Boys: 1-Kedar Tembe Mah bt R Arun Prakash TN 6-0, 6-1; Asutosh Singh Del bt Vivek Chandrasekar AP 6-2, 6-4; Siddarth Sudhakar Kar bt Anant Sitaram AP 6-1, 6-1; 5-Ravi Kiran Bhat Kar bt Chinna Kannan TN 6-3, 6-4; 4-Sunil Kumar bt Arjun Sharma Kar 6-0, 6-1; Benjamin Xavier Mah bt Vivian Chetri Del 6-4, 6-2; Nirmit ShettyKar bt 8-Parantap Chaturvedi Del 6-1, 6-1; 3-N Mukundan TN bt Ritesh Chitlangia Rajasthan 6-0, 6-3; 2-Kedar Shah Mah bt Vel Murugan TN 6-1, 6-3; Arvind Prakash TN bt Manoj Balaji TN 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 4; Chatwinder Singh Del bt Gurmehar Singh Del 0-6, 6-2, 6-3; 7-Kamala Kannan TN bt Abhijit Mazumdar Mah 7-5, 6-3; AR Anand Kumar AP bt Vimal Keerthi TN 6-3, 6-4; Jai Arora Mah bt Jaidev Punjabi Kar 6-1, 6-7 2, 6-3; 6-Saif Ali WB bt Rahul Gandhi TN 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Mithun Murali TN bt Avinash Reddy TN 6-4, 6-4.

Girls: 1st Round: 1-Sandhya Kanury TN bt LL Kalpita Raje Mah 6-1, 6-3; Saranya Pattabi TN bt Marutha Devi TN 6-1, 6-2; Alice Joy TN bt M Sunita AP 6-3, 6-3; 7-Khushchehr Italia Mah bt Reddina Parekh WB 6-3, 6-3; 3-Harsimran Kaur Chandigarh bt M Kamini TN 6-2, 6-3; Samrita Sekar TN bt Nivedita Venkatesh TN 6-0, 6-1; Priyanka Parekh WB bt Preeti Devendran TN 6-3, 6-1; Preethi Rao TN bt 6-Vishnu Preetham 6-3, 6-2; Sri Charanya TN btVandana Murali TN 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; 4-Nischella Reddy AP bt Rati Kumar Mah 6-3, 6-1; 8-Nandita Chandrasekar TN bt Ragini Vimal WB 7-5, 6-3; Nandini Perumal AP bt Parul Goswami Del 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Vishika Chetri Del bt V Meenakshi TN 6-0, 6-3; 2-T Yamini TN bt Shalini Reddy TN 1-6, 6-1, 6-4.