Seeds advance with consummate ease

Similar was the case with Rajeev Bagga in the men’s singles play, but one was baffled by Bagga’s decision that came when he was cruising to victory against Haryana’s Virender. Not even the match referee knew it was coming when Bagga signalled something to him before picking up his bag. At that time, he was 13-5 up in the secondgame after winning the first at 15-11.Apart from these, the only other aspect of any interest, was the progress of qualifiers Swetha. Sashidhar (both AP) and SS Kannan (TN).

Results

Men’s singles (1st round): B Chetan Anand (A-I) bt Sanjay Das (WB) 15-7, 15-5; Ritesh Ranjan (Bih) bt Sanjan Misra (MP) 15-112, 15-9; Joy T Antony (Ker) bt Bharat Bhushan (AP) 15-4, 15-1; Raja Joshi (Meg) bt L Ramesh Singh (Man) 15-12, 15-4; Shashidhar (AP) bt Harsingh Gurkha (Guj) 15-2, 15-2; Madhur Kalia (Del) bt S Rudra Kowshik (AIU) 15-10, 15-8; Guru Prasad (Kar) bt Shafaq Nawab (Bih) 15-12, 15-7; Srishail Malge (AP) bt Sameer Abbasi (Guj) 15-2, 15-6; Ashish Chadha (Del) bt Pranab Das (WB) 15-10, 15-12; Ranjeet Singh (Pun) bt Ramesh Kumar (AP) 15-11, 5-15, 15-8; Utsava Misra (UP) bt Ajanta Choudhary (Ass) 15-7, 15-4; Arup Baidya (Rly) bt UV Mohanty (Ors) 15-1, 15-1; Rahul Singh (J&K) bt Rupesh (A-I) 15-5, 15-4; Praveen Kumar (AP) bt Anuj Kumar Singh (Bih) 15-3, 15-1; Virender (Har) bt Rajeev Bagga (Mah) 11-15, 5-13conceded; Sumeet Sebastian (Ker) bt Vishal Sharma (Chd) 15-2, 15-4; Sudhir Babu (Kar) bt Shiv Kumar (TN) 15-6, 16-17, 15-11; L Nanda Kumar Singh (Man) bt Ranbir Singh (Raj) 15-12, 15-14; Ramalakhan (Pnb) bt Aravindamsaha (Tri) 15-5, 15-3; Mayur Tawade (Mah) bt Lalit Tyagir (AIU) 15-6, 15-8; SS Kannan bt Padma Kumar Das (Meg) 15-4, 15-3; Praveen Shelwat (Del) w/o Yapang (Nag); Pankaj Pande (Del) bt A Pridhvi (AP) 3-15, 18-17, 17-14; Sanav Thomas (Ker) bt Anil Kumar (Raj) 15-6, 15-2; B Kiran Kumar (A-I) bt Arvindam Bhatt 15-7, 15-6; Davinder Dhillion (Del) bt Deepankar Guragohan (Ass) 15-2, 15-1; Arun Pardesh (MP) bt Ranjanikant Prajapathi (Chd) 15-7, 2-15, 15-4; Thomas Kurian (BAI) bt Ravinder Singh (UP) 15-3, 15-8; Anna Srinivasan (TN) bt Amusana Singh (Man) 15-8,15-5; Abhijit Naimpally (Kar) bt Surinder Chari 18-15, 18-13.

Women’s singles (2nd round): Priya Parker (UP) bt Harsha (Har) 11-0, 11-3; Nipura Bhide (MP) bt BR Kokila (Kar) 11-2, 11-9; Manju T Abraham (Kar) bt Madhavi Kashikar 11-7, 11-3; BarkhaMishra (UP) bt Upama Singh (MP) 11-4, 11-4; Shalaka Damle bt Ranjan Sharma (HP) 11-0, 11-0; Tanmoyee Nandy (WB) bt Jyoti (TN) 11-0, 11-6; Aparna Popat (Kar) bt V Vandana Patil (AIU) 11-0, 11-0; Sampada Shetty (AI) bt Shyla Holla (Kar) 11-7, 11-8; PVV Lakshmi (AP) bt Rameshwari Devi (Manipur) 11-0, 11-1; Devi Suma (Ker) bt Mousimi Nandi (WB) 11-0, 11-4; Pooja Parekh (Rly) bt Saloni (Pun) 11-0, 11-2; Divya Ramesh (AI) bt Parul (AIU) 11-1, 11-0; Ankur Chandok (Del) bt Vyshali Lal (Chand) 11-1, 11-5; Firoza Batliwala (BAI) bt Sangeeta Barua (Ass) 11-5, 11-1; Archana Deodhar w/o Palkan Nagori (Guj); Vandana Gupta (UP) bt Nazaneen Karima (BAI) 1-11, 2-5 conceded; Manjusha Kanwar (Del) bt Raja Reddy (AP) 11-2, 11-2; Sushila Choudhary (Raj) bt Namrata Singh 11-6,11-1; Ch Deepti (Rly) bt Pratibha Kumar (Bih) 11-0, 11-2; Larisa Sadarangani (AI) bt Kashmi Kaur (Pun) 11-0, 11-1; BR Meenakshi (Rly) bt Kavita Joshi (Del) 11-0, 11-0; Parul Priyadarshini (UP) bt Kashima Singh (Del) 11-0, 11-1; Rekha (AIU) bt Sunita Kumari(Bih) 11-2, 11-2; Neelima Chaudary w/0 Neeru Chowhan; Sudha Rani (AP) bt Swati Moghe (Guj) 11-5, 11-4; Nirmala (AI) bt Sapana (Pun) 11-2, 11-3; Tanuja Begum (Ker) bt Krishna Hazarika (Ass) 11-3, 10-12, 11-5; D Swetha (AP) w/o Leena Pednekar (Goa); V Lakshmi Rao (AP) bt Simsim Salaria (Mah) 7-11, 11-6, 12-9.