Sane, Gavryl score upset wins

Except for sixth-seeded Dhurb Kumar of West Bengal, seventh-seeded T P Chigateri (Kar) and eighth-seeded Chatwinder Singh of Tamil Nadu, all other seeds won their opening encounters.

Dhurb went down to Vikrant Sane of Maharashtra 6-4, 5-7, 1-6, Chigateri lost to Gavryl Fernandes (Mah) 6-4, 0-6, 4-6 and Chatwinder was ousted by fifth-seeded A R Anandkumar (AP) 6-7, 6-4, 3-6.

Others proceeding to the round of sixteen were third-seeded Rohan Gajjar (Mah) who defeated local lad Nipun Gupta 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and fourth-seeded Pratim Parekh (Mah) who breezed past Avinash Reddy of Tamil Nadu 6-0, 6-0.

In the girls’ under-16 section, it was a smooth day for seeded players today. Second-seeded Nandita Chandrasekar of Tamil Nadu, third-seeded Isha Lakhani of Maharashtra, fourth-seeded Liza Pereira (Mah) and eighth-seeded Priyanka Parekh of West Bengal proceeded to round two scoring contrasting wins.

Nandita won over Gayathri Ramesh (Ker) 7-5, 6-2, Isha breezed past local girl Tara Iyer 6-1, 6-2, Liza defeated Maithri Jagannath (Kar) 6-2, 6-3 and Priyanka ousted Marutha S Devi (TN) 6-3, 6-0.

Top-seeded Megha Vakaria of Maharashtra and promising Sania Mirza of Andhra Pradesh had won their opening encounters yesterday, alongwith sixth-seeded Samrita Sekar (TN) and seventh-seeded Preeti Rao (TN).

In the boys’ under-14 section, top-seeded R Arun Prakash of Tamil Nadu breezed past state-mate Ajay Salvaraj 6-0, 6-0 and third-seeded V Vignesh (AP) defeated Anirudh Kulkarni (Mah) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the first round today.

Also advancing to round two were sixth-seeded Vikram Aditya Menon (TN) who ousted Amresh K (AP) 6-1, 6-2 and seventh-seeded Saurabh Kohli (Mah) who beat Vikram Singh of Delhi 6-1, 6-2.

In first round matches yesterday, second-seeded Vikrant Sane (Mah), fourth-seeded Chatwinder Singh, fifth-seeded Karan Rastogi (Mah) and eighth-seeded Tushar Liberhan (Chd) had proceeded to the second round.

Other Results (First Round)

Boys under-16: Nikhil Vijay Murali (Dli) bt Vivek Bhakuni (Dli) 7-5, 7-6 (5); Somdev K Varman (TN) bt Arif Haider (AP) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Manoj Balaji (TN) bt Divij Sharan (Dli) 6-1, 6-1; Wrik Ganguly (Dli) bt P Vikas (AP) 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (9); Harshit Sharma (WB) bt Karan Rastogi (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; Rishi Behl (Mah) bt Denny Eldo (Guj) 6-0, 6-3; R Arun Prakash (TN) bt Vikramaditya Menon (TN) 6-2, 6-0; V Vignesh (AP) bt Arjun Uppal (Dli) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Sukul Saurav (WB) bt Angad Singh (Chd) 6-1, 6-0.

Boys under-14: Somdev K Varman (TN) bt Tushaar Garg (Dli) 6-0, 6-2; Arjun G (Kar) bt Vinod M (TN) 6-3, 7-5; Varun Walia (UP) bt Wrik Ganguly (Dli) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Preetham R Reddy (AP) bt Ardhaman Sindhu (Chd) 6-4, 6-3; Somdeep Apnani (AP) bt Siddesh Sharma (Mah) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.

Girls under-16: Ankita Bhambri (Dli) bt Sandra Sasidharan (Ker) 6-2, 6-2; Iciri Rai (Kar) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) 6-4, 6-4; Naina Karsolia (UP) bt Sandri Ganghothri (AP) 6-3, 6-2; Anuja Parekh (Mah) bt Punam Reddy (AP) 6-2, 6-3.

Girls under-14: Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) bt Vandana Murali (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Satvika Saboo (Chd) bt Pooja Chopra (Kar) 6-1, 6-3; Tara Iyer (Dli) bt Gayatri Iyer (Dli) 6-1, 6-2; Sandri Ganghothri (AP) bt D Vijayakumar (Kar) 6-1, 6-1.