Kanishk Madan ousted second-seeded Shahid of Bangaldesh to advance to the third round of the 107th LG all-India Amateur Open golf tournament at the Chandigarh Golf Club here on Thursday. Kanishk who is seeded 15th, won with a convincing margin of four and three to set up a pre-quarterfinal clash with Mithun Perera, who quelled the challenge of Malaysian Edmund Jonathan by a similar margin.

In the other biggest upset of the day, Malaysian Mohammad Arie, seeded 32nd, showed top-seeded Jamal Mollah of Bangaldesh the door with a three and two victory to enter the pre-quarterfinals. He will clash with 16th seed Chi-Hsien Hsieh of Taipei, who was a one-up winner over Malaysian Haziz Hamizan.

Results (round two, prefix denotes seeding): 32-Mohd. Arie (Mas) bt 1-Jamal Mollah (Bangladesh) 3 & 2; 18-ChieHsien Hsieh (Tpe) bt 48-Haziz Hamizan (Mas) 1-up; 8-Pawan Kumar (Ind) bt 40-Rashid Khan (Ind) 1-up; 24-HS Kang (Ind) bt 9-Amanjyot Singh (Ind) 2-up; 4-Rahul Bakshi (Ind) bt 36-Mohd. Shekawat (Bangladesh) 4 & 3; 20-Jasjeet Singh (Ind) bt 52-Sudhir Sharma 5 & 4; 37-Arshdeep Tiwana bt 60-IK Ponappa 3 &1; 21-Navtez Singh (Ind) bt 12-Tarun Ghogale (Ind) 4 & 3; 31-Kanishk Madan (Ind) bt 2-Shahid (Bangladesh) 4 & 3; 15-Mithun Perera (SL) bt 18-Edmund Jonathan (Mas) 4 & 3; 39-Gagan Verma (Ind) bt 7-Abhijit Chadha (Ind) 3 & 2; 42-Manav Das (Ind) bt 55-Aditya Singh (Ind) 6 & 5; 62-Siddharth Seth (Ind) bt 35-Ashbeer Saini (Ind) 2-up; 14-Abhishek Jha (Ind) bt 19-Tao Hung (Tpe) 1-up; 6-Vikran Rana bt 27-Mohd. Safdar Khan (Pak) 4 & 3; 11-Chandradasa (SL) bt 22-Simarjeet Singh (Ind) 5 & 4.