JOIN USTop seed C Vasisht had little trouble advancing to the second round in the boys’ category after he clinically put aside Rahul Shankar 6-0, 6-1 in the KTPPA-National Series under-16 tennis tournament here on Monday.
There was, however, disappointment in store for one of the local hopes as Sai Pranav Ponaka went down to Delhi’s Shramay Dhawav 3-6, 3-6 in the first round.
In the girls’ section, all seeded players got a first round bye, while Prarthana Prabhakar made it to the second round after registering a comfortable 6-0, 6-1 win over Riya C.
Results (first round):
Boys: C Vasisht bt Rahul Shankar 6-0, 6-1; S Komaraju bt M Siddhanth 6-2, 6-0; A Mishra bt Rishwant 6-0, 6-1; Anshum G bt Suyash 6-2, 7-5; Manaz bt Sundar Arvind 6-2, 6-2; M Kavan bt Praneeth 6-3, 6-0; Tugal Bansal bt Yuvaraj 6-0, 6-2; Anirudh Murthy bt Aditya Rao 6-0, 7-5; G Sidhu bt Akash 1-6, 6-3, 6-0; Pranash Babu bt Dasarath 6-1, 6-0; Akash bt Thukaram 6-2, 6-0; Karthik C bt Nithin G 6-4, 7-5; PC Anirudh bt B Mrithyunjai 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-4; Vignesh S bt Tatagath 6-1, 6-2; Hari Singh bt Vignesh 6-0, 6-1; Achint Bhagat bt Harshit Selvaraj 6-4, 6-1; Siddarth Gowda bt Varun Venkat 7-5, 0-6, 6-4; Sai Krishna bt Rigdev 7-5, 6-3; S Vivek bt Rohit M 7-5, 6-3; Dhruv Sunish bt R Shekwat 6-4, 6-3; Shramay Dhawan bt Sai Pranav Ponaka 6-3, 6-3.
Girls: Prathana Prabhakar bt Riya C 6-0, 6-1; SB Apoorva bt Likhita L 6-1, 6-1; T Shravyashree bt Shimran 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Ankita Nandakumar bt Reshma Maruri 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Prathiba PN bt Monika Choudhry 6-0, 6-1; Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Jessica Gideon 6-0, 6-1; Pragathi PN bt Nikita Tiwari 6-3, 6-1; Anjum Shaikh bt Rithika 7-5, 6-1; Anisha Jain b Antara Johary 6-3, 6-2; Vrinda D bt Manoja 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Advaitha S bt Tanmayee P 6-1, 6-0; Chelsea Stephen bt Jahnavi H Reddy 6-3, 6-2; Shikh Tahoora bt Bhumika Srihari 6-4, 6-0; Dhwani Kumar bt Chandana 6-2, 6-4; Rashi Shukla bt Parvvi Patil 6-2, 6-4; Deeksha Prasad bt Trisha Vinod 6-2. 6-0.