Karnataka's Darshan takes out fancied Trivesh

In another match, Karnataka’s Harsha Manjunath eased past his seventh-seeded State-mate Raswant Ravi 8-1 while Mahesh Bhatija, seeded eighth, also crashed out to Andhra Pradesh’s Nishanth Rebello 8-5.

Results, first round: Boys, U-18: Darshan Srinivas (Kar) bt 2-Trivesh Singh (Del) 8-4; Nikhil Reddy (Kar) bt Siddharth Debrai (Kar) 8-2; Nawaz Syed Abrar bt Aakash Balachander (TN) 8-4; 6-SD Prajwal Dev (Kar) bt A Abhijeet 8-0; 4-Rajanvir Dharani (Mah) bt Adithya M 8-1; Rohan G (Kar) bt Vikram N (Kar) 8-5; Harsha Manjunath (Kar) bt 7-Raswant Ravi (Kar) 8-1; Nishanth R (AP) bt 8-Mahesh B (Kar) 8-5; 3-S Raghavendra (Kar) bt Naesar Jewoor (Kar) 8-1; 5-Prashanth S (Mah) bt Alok A (Kar) 8-6; Arjun R (TN) bt RS Mohit (TN) 8-1; Ganesh (TN) w/o Nagaraju (Kar); Karthik S (Kar) bt Anirudh BS (Kar) 8-4; Rohit Sarwate bt Chiranthan KS (Kar) 8-2; Vasanth Kumar (Kar) bt Aaron David (Kar) 8-0. Girls: U-18: Sneha Reddy (Mah) w/o 8-Yamini Nalabothula; Shwetha Samuel (Kar) bt Lakshmi Nikita (Kar) 8-0; 5-Kritika S Raj (Kar) bt Ashwati Ramesh (Kar) 8-1; 3-Seeulee K Upadhya (Ori) bt Nupur Umashankar (Kar) 8-3; 6-A Sharmila (TN) bt M Divya (Kar) 8-2; 7-Gopika M (Kar) bt Nikitha R 8-0; Shikha N (Kar) bt Honeyshya R 8-4; Abhipsa Rath (Kar) bt Vasavi GS (TN) 8-7 (7-3); 2-Preethi B Ujjini (Kar) bt Diana Abi (TN) 8-2; Soha S (Kar) bt Aishwarya Jagadish (Kar) 8-4.