Roop, Baxi eliminated

Raghavendra, Gaonkar provide first-day upsets

While Raghavendra overpowered fourth-seeded Roop Kumar of Andhra Pradesh 6-0, 6-1, Gaonkar was even more impressive as he blanked Prateesh P Baxi, who was seeded fifth, 6-0, 6-0.

Top-seeded Karan S of Karnataka almost joined the exodus of seeds, needing a third-set tie-breaker to quell a fighting Sanjib Kerketta.

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Results (first round):
Boys, U-18: Karan S (Kar) bt Sanjib Kerketta 2-6, 6-3, 7-6; Manab Kumar Chakma (Mah) bt LD Hitesh (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; Vishwanath Savadi (Kar) bt Sriram Ananthnarayan (TN) 7-5, 7-5; B Sai Reddy (AP) bt Surjeet Singh (Kar) 7-5, 7-5; Senthil Kumar (TN) bt Drithwin CM (Kar) 6-4, 6-1; Rohan Gaonkar (Kar) bt Prateesh P Baxi 6-0, 6-0; Rashein Samuel (Kar) bt Rishi Dabari (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; Praveen Raj A (TN) bt Nikhil Reddy (AP) 6-1, 2-6, 6-2; Buhad Mankad (Guj) bt Anirud Puranik (Kar) 6-1, 6-3; Harish Ramakrishnan bt Thomas Premkumar (TN) 6-4, 6-3; Pradeep Deswar bt Sagar Manjunath (Kar) 6-3, 6-4; Raghavendra A (Kar) bt Roop Kumar (AP) 6-0, 6-1; Ayush Dharwa bt Subhas Kaushik (AP) 6-3, 7-5; Sameer Paranjpe bt Vishnu K Jinan (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Monish Rajer (TN) bt Prem Singh (Mah) 7-5, 6-2; Mohd Shadab Khan (Del) bt Ganga Singh (Kar) 6-4, 7-6.
Girls, U-18: Shalaka UM (Kar) bt Devika A Kumar (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; Preethi Gokhale (Kar) bt Ankitha A 6-2, 6-0; Arundhuti Basu (WB) bt Dasani Shika Hitesh 6-1, 7-6; C Rajeshwari (AP) bt Nupur Roy Chaudhry (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; Rachitha Sarda (Kar) bt Lavanya Saravanan (TN) 6-3, 6-1; Padmapriya (Kar) bt Sneha S 6-1, 6-0; Neesha Menon (Kar) bt Taarani Chandramouli (Kar) 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Anita Yadhav (Kar) bt Abhipsa Rath (Kar) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; K Sangeetha (TN) bt Disha Satish Agarwal 6-2, 6-2; R Binu (TN) bt Nivitha Srinivas (TN) 6-3, 6-0; Neena Reddy (TN) bt Seeulee Upadhaya (Mah) 6-3, 6-0; Vasundhra Raju (AP) bt T Rajashree (AP) 2-6, 6-4, 7-6; Nityah B Raj (TN) bt Nandini Venkatram (Kar) 6-0, 6-3; Pamir Gogoi (Asm) bt Deepika Senthilkumar (TN) 6-2, 6-3; SP Ritu (Kar) bt Varunya Chandrashekar 6-4, 6-2; K Shina Rao bt Shreya Mahadevan 6-2, 6-3.