Linda among leaders

Second-seeded Sameer Kathmale of Maharashtra and third seed Rupankar Nath of West Bengal also notched up the full point with wins over Ashwini B Bagewadi and Avinash L Kamate respectively.

Important results (round I): AJ Arogia Swamy (Kar, 0) lt to Linda Rangarajan (Pud, 1); Kathmale Sameer (Mah, 1) bt Ashwini B Bagewadi (Bel, 0); Avinash L Kamate (Kar, 0) lt to Rupankar Nath (WB, 1); LV Shivkumar (AP, 1) bt Bandurao Ramarao Kulkarni (Kar, 0).

BS Basavaraj (Kar, 0) lt to Rao Vishal (Bel, 1); Deepthamsh Reddy M (AP, 1) bt Basavaraj S Bagewadi (Bel, 0); Chaitra U Nadgouda (Bel, 0) lt to Gopal Ashok Rathod (Mah, 1); YG Vijendra (Kar, 1) bt Dasari Dattatreya Rao (Bel, 0); SM Dharwad (Kar, 0) lt to Akash Pc Iyer (TN, 1); Joy Chauhan (Guj, 1) bt Dr Suresh P Desai (Bel, 0).