Chirantan sails into second round

Chirantan faced stiff fight from Arjun Muralidhar in the under-16 section before emerging a 8-7 (8-6) winner. The youngster, however, had it easy against Pralok Ikkruthy 8-2 in under-14 section.

Samyukth had easy outings, beating Aakash 8-3 in under-16 and Rahul Shankar 8-2 in under-14.

Results (all first-round): Boys, under-16: Antony Savio bt Mohith Reddy 8-1; S Sagar bt S Manish 8-4; Karthik Subramanya bt Arya Moolah 8-5; Nisarg Yajaman bt Chirag Chinnappa (w/o); Vibhu Varsh bt M Arjun 8-3; Surya Prasad bt Nawaz Syed Abrar 8-6; KS Chirantan bt Arjun Muralidhar 8-7 (8-6); N Prajwal bt Rohan Lagweg 8-2; Alok Aradhya bt M Manaz 8-0; Hani Varsh bt Rishi Reddy 8-2; Vasudev V Raman bt Rohan Shenoy 8-4; Naesar Jewoor bt Akhil Das 8-2; Samyukth Balaji bt Aakash 8-3; Sai Pranav bt Vinayak Khanna 8-6; Varun Venkat bt Poojith Prabhakar 8-5.

Under-14: S Karthik bt Chirag Chinnappa 8-0; Arya Moola bt A Yuvraj 8-0; Manaz M bt Rohan Lageweg 8-2; T Hanivarsh bt Akhil Krishna Das 8-0; Samyukth Balaji bt Rahul Shankar 8-2; K Hementh bt Mihir Roy Chaudhary 8-1; KS Chirantan bt Pralok Ikkruthy 8-2; PM Ganapathy bt Dhruv Kumar 8-2.

Girls, under-16: Prajna Nagaraj bt Medha Hegde 8-0; GK Sanskriti Rajan Namratha 8-1; Aditi Dilip bt Muskan Ranjan 8-1; Shloka Kumar bt Shynica 8-1; Ann C Nelson bt Shreya Vivek 8-0; Ashima D Urs bt Nisha Shenoy 8-0; NS Shikha bt M Shreya 8-5; Dhwani Kumar bt Aapthi Harish 8-1; Shivani Manjanna bt Rachita R 8-0; S Diana Abe bt Chelse Stephen (w/o); N Lakshmi bt Aishwarya Jagadish 8-7 (8-6).