Three seeded players ousted

Larissa — runner-up at the Natu Memorial in Pune last week — was dismissed 8-11, 5-11 by Sampada Shetye in the pre-quarterfinals.

Bakshi, in the last singles match of the day, was ousted by unseeded Mangrish Palekar (Railways) 15-11, 10-15, 15-12 in 52 minutes.

National champion P Gopi Chand and No 7 seed Dipankar Bhattacharjee suffered minor hiccups before they took their scheduled slots in the last eight.

Gopi had little trouble against Mayur Tawade in the first round, but was stretched by Amrish Shinde in the next.

Shinde set a blistering pace to unsettle the top seed and take the game 18-16. It took a change in pace for Gopi to storm right back, which he did in wrapping up the next two games and the match in a little over an hour.

Bhattacharjee, on the other hand, was in trouble in his first round match against Thomas Kurien. In the decider, after both players shared a game each, Bhattacharjee was down 9-13 at one stage before he crawled back to take the next nine points and the match in 67 minutes. Bhattacharjee runs into 19-year-old Jalandhar boy Sachin Ratti in the quarter-finals.

Ratti, finalist at Pune, faced the toughest first round match against Siddharth Jain but came through 15-9, 2-15, 15-4 in an hour.

RESULTS

Men’s singles (2nd round): P Gopi Chand (AP) bt Amrish Shinde (Mah) 16-18, 15-3, 15-3; Anuj Gupta (Guj) bt Jaison Xavier (Ker) 15-4, 8-15, 15-3; Sachin Ratti (Rlys) bt Mayur Ghatnekar (Mah) 15-5, 15-0; Dipankar Bhattacharjee (Assam) bt Parag Modi (Mah) 15-7, 15-12; Sushant Saxena (UP) bt Kiran Kumar (A-I) 15-6, 15-4; Nikhil Kanetkar (A-I) bt Vikrant Patwardhan (Mah) 15-3, 15-5; Abhinn Shyam Gupta (A-I) bt Vijay Lancy 15-7, 15-2.

1st round: P Gopi Chand bt Mayur Tawade 15-4, 15-7; Amrish Shinde bt Harish Chandra 15-2, 15-3; Anuj Gupta bt Sanket Shetty 15-3, 15-7; Jaison Xavier bt Rajeev Bagga 15-8, 15-10; Sachin Ratti bt Siddharth Jain 15-9, 2-15, 15-4; Mayur Ghatnekar bt Vidhyadhar 15-11, 18-13; Dipankar Bhattacharjee bt Thomas Kurien 7-15, 15-9, 18-13; Parag Modi bt Devinder Dhillon 15-12, 15-9; Sushant Saxena bt Sunil Sebastian 15-3, 15-7; Kiran Kumar bt Vincent Lobo 7-15, 17-14, 15-6; Vikrant Patwardhan bt Abhijeet Naimpally 15-7, 15-7; Nikhil Kanetkar bt Sameer Mahesh 15-3, 15-4; Mangrish Palekar bt Sashidhar 15-8, 15-11; Srikant Bakshi bt Joy Anthony 15-4, 15-12; Vijay Lancy bt Ajit Wijetilak 15-4, 8-15, 15-7; Abhinn Shyam Gupta bt Ashish Chadha 15-7, 15-12.

Men’s doubles (1st round): Mayur Ghatnekar (Rly)/Sameer Mahesh (A-I) bt Nimesh Goel/A Chowdhary (Mah) 18-17, 15-7; Sushant Saxena/Anuj Gupta w/o from Srikant Bakshi/Amrish Shinde; Sunil Sebastian/Jaison Xavier (Ker) bt Viresh Agarwal/Rajesh Chowdhary (Del) 15-7, 15-12; Mangrish Palekar/Harish Chandra (Rly) w/o Muralivardhan Rao/Sanyasi Rao; D Dhillon/A Amarnath bt L Desa/Sanket Shetty 15-12, 15-12; Kunal Vaswani/Ayaz Bhilwala (Mah) bt P R Sudhir Babu/Vidhyadhar (AP) 15-12, 9-15, 15-8.

Women’s (2nd round): Aparna Popat (Kar) bt Asawari Patwardhan (Mah) 11-1, 11-4; Nazneen Karini (Mah) bt Vinaya Shetty 12-11, 11-4; Sampada Shetty (A-I) bt Larissa Sadarangini (A-I) 11-8, 11-5; Pooja Parekh (Rlys) bt Manju T Abraham (Kar) 11-5, 11-2; C H Deepti bt Divya Ramesh 11-1, 11-6; Manjusha Kanwar (Del) bt Shalaka Damle (A-I) 11-2, 12-11; B R Meenakshi (Rlys) bt Nirmala Kotnis (A-I) 11-9, 2-11, 11-4; K Neelima Choudhary (A-I) bt Feroza Batliwala (Rlys) 11-1, 11-8.

1st round: Manju T Abraham bt Phalkan Nagori 11-3, 11-0; Divya Ramesh bt Meenakshi Wagh 11-0, 11-1; B R Meenakshi bt Kirti Kadam 7-11, 11-4, 11-2.