JOIN USThe State lad did not have to strive too much as he got a breaks once each in both the sets as he notched up a win with utmost ease.
Results, first round: Boys: U-16: M Aamir Shoaib bt Nikhil Reddy w/o; Anthony Savio bt Suraj H 6-2, 6-4; Niral A Shah bt Ishan Singh 6-4, 6-3; S Siddarth Reddy bt R Gautham 6-2, 6-4; Nikki Ponnacha bt Sai Nikhil 5-7, 7-6(7-1), 7-6(7-4); V Prithvi Haas bt A Naveen Kumar 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Rishab R Kumar bt Aditya Gokhale 6-2, 7-6(7-5); Aditya Vikram bt L Anuraag 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(7-5); Pranav Malhotra bt Adwitya Patnaik 6-4, 6-1; Kashyap A bt Rahul Sohmani 6-0, 6-2; Suraj Prabodh bt Mahesh Bhatija 7-5, 6-4; IB Akshay bt Nipun Bajaj 6-0, 6-2; Harsha Manjunath bt Tanvir Armaan 7-5, 6-4; S Gokul bt S Kishen 6-4, 6-2; Shaurya Dhankar bt LD Hitesh 6-4, 6-4; SD Prajwal Dev bt Rahul BS 6-4, 6-4.
U-14: SD Prajwal bt R Ramakrishnan 6-3, 6-1; Rian Pandole bt Vasisht C 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6); Nipun Bajaj bt Karthikeya Kumar S 6-1, 6-1; Adwithya Pattnaik bt Lokesh Kumar S 6-2, 6-1; IB Akshay bt Karthik S 6-2, 6-2; S Kishen bt MS Rakshith 6-1, 6-1; Jayesh Pungliya bt Evana Mirjaker 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; V Prithvi Haas bt Aryan Goveas 6-1, 6-3; Indra Patwardhan bt Yash Puri 6-1, 6-2; Tanwir Armaan bt Arjun Ramakrishnan 6-3; 6-4; Arjun Patnaik bt Nischal Nadumuni 6-4, 6-2; Pranav Malhotra bt Sudev Vijaya Raman 6-1, 6-1; M Sai Nikhil bt Aditya Gokhale 6-3, 6-3; S Gokul bt Abinav Macedo 6-1, 7-5; Anamitra Chakravarthy bt Aman Mubarak 6-2, 6-2; Shaurya Dhankar bt Varun Pathare 6-2, 6-1.
Girls: U-14: Aboli Goghari bt Apurva Vijaya Barte 6-3, 6-3; Prerna Kalwar bt Sharlee Deshmukh 6-2, 6-1; CS Praneeta bt Nandini Das 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Prabuthi Singania bt Rashmitha Pasula Reddy 6-2, 6-3; Abhipsa Rath bt Sruta Kirti 6-1, 6-1.