Karnataka’s Surya Prasad marched into the second round of the boys’ under-18 and under-16 categories following near-identical wins in the Innerwheel Mysore AITA Talent Series on Monday.
The youngster got the better of Statemates Chiranthan KS (9-4) and Siddharth N Gowda (9-5) in the under-18 and under-16 category first-round matches respectively.
Results (Karnataka unless stated otherwise, first round): Boys (under-18): Prajwal Dev SD bt Akhil Kanagaraj (TN) 9-5; Surya Prasad bt Chiranthan KS 9-4; Kishen Suresh bt Rajneesh Bhandari (TN) 9-6; Ribhav R bt Anwesh Roy 9-2; Rahul B Srinivas bt Siddharth Arya KS 9-6; Elan Elangovan (TN) bt Arjun Manjunath 9-7; Sansidh V Kommaraju bt Varun Venkat 9-3; Vignesh Subramanyan bt Karthik S 9-1; Pranash Babu (TN) bt Jeffy Jacob 9-5 (TN); Nagendra Sai KV (AP) bt Vivek Srinivas (AP) 9-1; Guhan Rajan (TN) bt Anirudh Jaindhan (Ker) 9-6; Ganesh Srinivasan (TN) bt Kadari Jhansi Navneeth Reddy (AP) 9-3; Alok Aradhya bt Karthik Charan S (TN) 9-3; Anirudha Baskara (TN) bt Manchala Vishal Kumar (AP) 9-2; Arjun Ramakrishna (TN) bt Aditya Anant Gokhale (Mah) 9-4.
Under-16: Aditya Anant Gokhale (Mah) bt Sansidh V Kommaraju (TN) 9-8 (2); Anirudh Bindiganavile Satishchand bt Pramukh Pramod Maharnor 9-4; Elan Elangovan (TN) bt Vanshal D’Souza (Mah) 9-5; Anirudh Jaindhan (Ker) bt Guhan Rajan (TN) 9-7; Pranash Babu (TN) bt Arjun Manjunath 9-4; Kavin M (TN) bt Pavan Ravi Holla (TN) 9-5; Aparoop Patillola Reddy (AP) bt Dhaya Anbalange 9-7; Surya Prasad bt Siddharth N Gowda 9-5; Ashwin Dhanasamy (TN) bt Umesh Nath SN (AP) 9-6; Mohith M bt Arjun Mariyappa 9-4; Rishi Reddy bt Sidhan Mohammed J (TN) 9-4; Ganesh Srinivasan (TN) bt Akhilesh Reddy T (AP) 9-4; Maaz Khan bt Varun Venkat 9-2; Rahul Shankar bt Karthik Charan S (TN) 9-7; Siddharth Arya KS (TN) bt Aditya Rao 9-1; Vignesh Subramanyan bt Rgdev Nath Paul 9-0.
Girls (under-16): Janaki Kamalnathan (TN) bt Anisha J Jain 9-6; Shivani Manjanna bt Yaami Gupta (TN) 9-0; Bhumika Srihari bt Chaitali A Narde 9-5; Nikitha Reddy T (AP) bt Manasa Narendran (Kerala) 9-5; Jyothi M bt Monisha 9-0; Ananya M Mollera bt Soujanya A 9-0; Megha Muthukumaran (TN) bt Pratiksha Sen 9-3; Prarthana B Prabhakar bt Jahnavi Harish Reddy 9-0; Apeksha K Solanki bt Karuna 9-0.