Seeds find going tough on Day 1

In the boy’s singles first round, seventh-seeded Chandrashekar Mohanty became the first seed to bite the dust when he was sidelined 1-6, 1-6 by his unseeded compatriot Abhishek Tamhane in just 35 minutes.

Junior international Lata Asudani proved a far superior player than her rival and outplayed the Malaysian in all departments of the game.

Her domination in the first set was totally complete as she let her rival win just one game when Yee Chen managed to hold her serve in the fifth game.

However, in the second set the Malaysian fought back, after dropping her serve in the second game, to break the Indian in the fifth.

The Indian got the vital break-through in the 12th game to win the set at 7-5 and with it the match.

Top seed in the boys section, Vinod Kumar Sewa, fourth-seed Amanjot Singh, sixth-seed Harshit Sharma, third-seed Parantap Chaturvedi and eight-seed Nishank Mishra (all Indians) and fifth seed Jaya Adam of Malaysia sailed into the second round with straight set wins.

Results:

Girls singles (1st round): Pichaya Laosirichon (Tha) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (Ind) 6-1 6-3, Priyanka Parekh (Ind) bt Rati Kumar (Ind) 7-5 0-6 7-6 (7-2), Sharanya Pattabhi (Ind) bt Manjot Marwah (Ind) 6-1 6-1, Lata Asudhani (Ind) bt Yee Chen Liaw (Mal) 6-1 7-5, Sania Mirza (Ind) bt Krushmi Chheda (Ind) 6-3 6-4, Preeti Rao (Ind) bt Manasi Majeji (Ind) 6-0 6-0, Nandini Perumal (Ind) bt Jharna Nancy (Ind) 6-2 6-0, Gayatri Ramesh (Ind) bt Nidhi Shah (Ind) 7-6 (7-5) 5-7 6-1, Yuin Pei Keng (Mal) bt Sonali Sanap (Ind) 6-1 6-2, Megha Vakharia (Ind) bt Medini Sharma (Ind) 6-4 6-0, Johann Fernandes (Ind) bt Sinha Toshi (Ind) 6-0 6-2, Sasha Abraham (Ind) bt Sagarika Phadke (Ind) 6-2 6-0, Isha Lakhani (Ind) bt Samrita Sekhar (Ind) 4-6 6-2 6-1, Riddhima Parekh (Ind) bt Kalpita Raje (Ind) 6-0 7-5, Anuja Parikh (Ind) bt Kanisha Mehta (Ind) 7-6 (6-3) 6-3, Liza Pereira (Ind) bt Nikita Kakkad (Ind) 6-0 6-1.

Boys singles (1st round): VK Sewa (Ind) bt A Karunakaran (Ind) 6-0 6-1, A Madkekar (Ind) bt R Dutta (Ind) 6-1 6-0, Vijay Nikhil Murali (Ind) bt G Mishra (Ind) 6-2 6-1, S Sukul (Ind) bt S Kohli (Ind) 6-1 6-4, J Kanekar (Ind) bt R Muzumdar (Ind) 6-2 6-1, A Tamhane (Ind) bt C Mohanty (Ind) 6-1 6-1, A Singh (Ind) bt S Sharma (Ind) 6-1 6-1, A Prakash (Ind) bt A Soni (Ind) 7-5 6-2 C Singh (Ind) bt P Sharma (Ind) 6-1 6-3, J Adam (Mal) bt K Bhojwani (Ind) 6-3 6-0, V Sane (Ind) bt V Chandrashekar (Ind) 4-3 (conceded), N Gupta (Ind) bt A Singla (Ind) 6-1 6-3, H Sharma (Ind) bt S Khaitan (Ind) 6-2 7-5, R Kranti (Ind) bt Ivan Choo (Mal) 6-3 3-6 6-3, D Kumar (Ind) bt R Dalvi (Ind) 7-6 (7-4) 1-6 6-3, T Tanthasuwanlert (Thai) bt R Behl (Ind) 6-0 6-1, N Mishra (Ind) bt D Poddar (USA) 6-1, 6-0.

Tushar wins

Tushar Thopte has won the under-16 boy’s crown of the TI Cycle junior and sub-junior boy’s and girl’s cycle races organised by the Amateur Cycling Association of Bombay Suburban District at the Worli Sea Face here on Sunday. Tushar covered the distance of 8 km in nine minutes and 59.63 seconds. followed by Gajendra Shinde and Lovbert Lobo at second and third spot respectively.

Other results:

Boy’s u-12 (4 km): 1. Nivesh Patil (5.40 sec.), 2. Abhishek Gaonkar, 3. C Yogendra. Girl’s u-16 (6 km): 1. Amruta Karkhanis (7. 39 sec.), 2. Anindita Bose, 3. Ujali Nahata. Girl’s u-12 (2 km):

1. Ashveen Anand (3.21.30 sec.), 2. Pari Savla, 3. Tooba Khan.

Rhea shines

Junior international Rhea Bhandare stole the limelight on the opening day of the Rs. 1.91 lakh prize money Little Masters squash tournament at the Willingdon Sports Club here on Monday. Playing in the boys under-17 section, Rhea easily sidelined Sajan Sukal 9-4, 9-2, 9-0 to move into the second round.

Shiv Dewan of Delhi and Jagbir Jhulka of Hyderabad sailed into the second round with easy wins.

The Delhi boy crushed Arvind Singh of Mumbai 9-3, 9-3, 9-5, while Jhulka downed Kanika Premnarayan, also of Mumbai, 9-0, 10-8, 9-0.

Results (Boys u-19): Bipin Batra bt Ashwin Bhosale 9-3 9-6 9-0, Yogin Thakur bt Vaibhav Gupta 6-9 9-7 2-9 9-6 9-6, Shiv Dewam bt Arvind Singh 9-3 9-3 9-5 Jagbir Jhulka bt Kanika Premnarayan 9-0 10-8 9-0.

Boys u-17: Rhea Bhandare bt Sajan Sukal 9-4 9-2 9-0, Aditya Manjrekar bt Avinash Bhatija 9-0 9-1 4-9 9-7, Karanpal Sethi bt Madhuja Jaiyathilleke (Sri Lanka) 9-1 9-3 9-0, Jagbir Jhulkar bt ST Kanangara (Sri Lanka) 9-1 9-3 9-3, Vikram Hira bt Maru Aniruddh 4-9 9-7 9-4 9-6, Bipin Batra bt Dhuraj Nagpal 9-5 9-6 9-4, Ashok Rathore bt Sandeep Jain 9-0 9-0 9-0, Arun Sharma bt Anish Palekar 9-4 9-3 9-0, Anurag Gill bt Varun Mohta 9-1 9-0 9-0, Gautam Kalani bt Hiren Perera (Sri Lanka) 10-6 9-3, 9-2.

Girls u-19: Randhika Dissanayak (Sri Lanka) bt Shahnaz Madraswalla 7-9 9-7 8-10 9-1 9-1, Saachi Mehta bt Nisanga Mayadunne (Sri Lanka) 7-9 9-3 9-4 9-2, Natasha Lall bt Liana Deboo 9-4 9-4 9-2, Kanika Premnarayen bt Mensusha Hettirachi (Sri Lanka) 9-2 9-2 9-0, Shubika Bikha bt Tehani Gurugee (Lanka) 9-1 9-0 9-0.