In another first-round encounter in the same category, Supreet Dev edged out Nihal Aga 8-7 (7-5).

First-round results:

Boys: U-16: Sagar Manjunath bt Sandesh 8-0; Kashyap Ashok bt Sachin Anthony 8-6; Hemant Kumar bt Yeshes N 8-5; Anthony Savio bt Ujwal Naidu 8-5; Venkatesh Krishnan bt Jigar Shah 8-2; Rohan Goankar bt Sabya Sachi Mishra 8-0; Varun Sathyanarayan bt Hasan Ali Palijiwala 8-7 (8-6); Supreet Dev bt Nihal Aga 8-7 (7-5); Prathik Talukdar bt Siddarth Debari 8-6; V Srikanth w/o Navnit Krishnan.

U-12: BR Nikshep bt Romil 8-0; Vishnu Karthik bt Harinarayan 8-4; Nishchil Nadmani bt Darshan 8-1; R Vyshna bt Aniroodh 8-6; Naren bt Prauj Pillay 8-3; Surya Prasad bt S Bhandari 8-3; C Ajikumar bt Abhiman 8-0; Anirudh BS bt Varun Venkat 8-2.

Girls: U-16: Shreya Madhavan bt Shruti S 8-0; Swathi H Kumar bt Manisha 8-1; Devika Kumar w/o MC Rajani; Nupur Umashankar bt Kavya N Kumar 8-3; Sneha bt Pooja 8-0; Pooja Patil bt Abhipsha 8-3; Nupur Roy Chaudry bt Sanjana 8-7 (7-5).

U-12: Shreya Madhavan bt Abhilasha V 8-3; Annapurna bt Nishal Shenoy 8-4; N Ramya bt Sahana S 8-0; CS Praneetha bt B Priyanka 8-0.