Aditya enters pre-quarters; Amit qualifies

West Bengal’s Manish Jain,made a hash of chances after sinking a difficult blue before losing to Aditya Mehta 81-6,41-74, 89-0, 62-58. In another preliminary league tie, Karnataka’s Amit Bhushan, a qualifier held his nerve to get the better of seasoned Rupesh Shah of PSPB 65-51, 59-67, 60-41, 82-70, 61-40.

Results: Group A: Nikhil Ootam (Mah) bt Ranbir Singh Yadav (Raj) 3-0(64-18, 50-22, 58-8); Pankaj Advani (PSPB) bt Saket Saurabh (Bih) 3-0 (91(65)-16, 61-33, 74(65)-8).  Group B: Vijay Nichani (TN) bt Rajat Khenja (Ch) 3-1 (78-38, 25-7, 80-13, 68-34); Kamal Chawla (Rly) bt Rayan Khan (Goa) 3-0 (81(81)-0, 78(48)-6, 65-56).
Group C: Sumit Talwar bt Simranjeet Singh (Raj) 3-1 (68-49, 71-39, 43-56, 73-14); IH Manudev (Kar) bt Sreedhar G (AP) 3-1 (71-44, 63-20, 60-73, 56-38). Group D: Guvinder Gulati (Pun) bt Vikas Sharma (UP) 3-2 (64-41, 60-45, 28-55, 47-83, 72-28); Manan Chandra (PSPB) bt Balaji Reddy (Kar) 3-0 (60-42, 75-19, 68-34). Group E: Amaranth Sharma (Meg) bt Sumesh Turkey (J&K) 3-1 (50-44, 31-58, 59-25, 61-49); Aditya Mehta (Mah) bt Manish Jain (WB) 3-1 (, 81-6, 41-74, 89-0, 62-58); A Mehta bt  Vijay Goel (Del) 3-0 (68-47, 77-34, 68(52)-15); A Mehta bt Vivek Chopra (Pun) 3-0 (74 -18, 83-12, 63(51)-2). Group F: Rafath Habib (Rly) bt Lucky Vatnani (AP) 3-2 (94(53,41)-31, 89(62)-0, 55-69, 58(58)-69, 80(60)-39). Group G:  arang Shroff (Mah) bt Nigel D’Souza (Goa) 3-0 (75-29, 45-12, 58-20); Alok Kumar (PSPB) bt Mumtaz Ali (Jha) 3-2 (31-65, 53-8, 27-59, 49-41, 71-13). Group H: Siddarth Rao (TN) bt Lallawmkima (Miz) 3-1 (38-42, 88-14, 78-2, 72-8); Abhimanyu Gandhi (Guj) bt Anuj Uppal (Mah) 3-1 (55-20, 41-91, 74-37, 67-12). Group I: Malkeet Singh (UP) bt R Loganathan (TN) 3-0 (91-20, 85-57, 63-20); Sourav Kothari (PSPB) bt Sukumar Burman (Assam) 3-0 (70-40, 53-42, 74-38).
Group J: K Venkatesam (Rly) bt Jeet Kishore Das (Ori) 3-2 (73-31, 13-65, 55-9, 46-73, 63-42); Yasin Merchant (Mah) bt Aneesh Saini (Har) 3-1 (83-13, 31-74(53), 55-33, 86(51)-15).
Group K: Sundeep Gulati (Del) bt Jay Shankar Shaw (Jhar) 3-0 (50-26, 72-13, 78-13); Devendra Joshi (PSPB) bt Ketan Sabhachandani (Guj) 3-1 (39-54, 76-9, 56-49, 71-28). Group L: Jasim Tawin (Kar) bt Lalrina Renthlei (Miz) 3-1 (28-66, 72-30, 66-4, 56-13); Neeraj Kumar (Rly) bt Bharat Sisodiya (MP) 3-0 (67-54, 130(57,63)-0, 75-18). Group M: Divya Sharma (Har) bt Shabaz Adil khan (PSPB) 3-1 (65-42, 70-45, 0-83, 55-52); Faisal Khan (Rly) bt Subrat Das (WB) 3-1 (12-46, 75-16, 68-2, 87-9). Group N: Nizel Lazar (TN) bt Nitin Agarwal (MP) 3-0 (58-38, 56-41, 67-49); Pushpinder Singh (Rly) bt MS Arun (Kar) 3-0 (71(40)-16, 62-17, 81(43)-35). Group O: Amit Bhushan (Kar) bt Rupesh Shah (PSPB) 3-2 (65-51, 59-67, 60-41, 82-70, 61-40); Rupesh Shah (PSPB) bt Shankar Rao S (AP) 3-0 (70-8, 67-25, 57-31).