Ritu, Kavya score comfortable wins, enter round two

Top-seeded Ritu defeated Tanya Singh 7-6 (7-5), 6-0, while seventh seed Kavya swamped Surayanarani 6-1, 6-1.

First-round results:
Boys, under-14: MS Rakshit (Kar) bt M Shrisarvan (TN) 7-5, 6-1; Yash Puri (AP) bt KS Chiranthan (Kar) 6-3, 7-5; R Ramakrishnan (TN) bt S Karthik (Kar) 6-4, 6-3; T Vignesh bt Rehan K (TN) 6-4, 6-4; Nipun Bajaj (TN) bt Prateik R (Kar) 6-4, 6-3; D Shiva Saivik (AP) bt Hani Varsh T (Kar) 6-0, 6-3; Abhinav Macado bt Sourab S Hegde 6-1, 6-1; Arjun M bt Soorya 6-3, 6-0; A Kanagaraj bt SV Balaji 7-6, 6-3; Anirud BS bt S Sharma 6-0, 7-5.

Girls, under-16: SP Ritu (Kar) bt Tanya Singh (UP) 7-6 (7-5), 6-0; Abhilasha V (Kar) bt Sameeksha S (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; Preeti Bandurge (Kar) bt BS Yadav (AP) 6-4, 6-1; Varuna Chandrash- ekar (Kar) bt Diana Abi (TN) 6-2, 6-2; Kavya N Kumar (Kar) bt Surayanarani (TN) 6-1, 6-1; Salima Saleem bt Rishika V 6-3, 6-3.

Under-14: Pragati Nataraj (TN) bt Harshita S (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; Shikha N Singh (Kar) bt Salima Saleem (TN) 4-6, 6-4, 10-5; Celine Maria bt Abhilasha V (Kar) 6-4, 4-6, 12-12; Shivanidhanasamy (TN) bt Sanjana MB (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; Kavya N Kumar (Kar) bt Shreya Mahadevan (Kar) 6-2, 6-4; Priyadarshini TM (TN) bt Chandana MB 6-2, 6-4; Lakshmi Nikta (Kar) bt Reshma Ganapathy 6-4, 4-6, 10-8; S Soha bt Amitha Siva 6-2, 6-2; Preeti Bhandurge bt Diana Abi 6-1, 6-3; Ujwal SS bt Bariya Sakshi Yadav 6-1, 6-3; CS Praneetha bt Swetha Prem Kumar 6-1, 4-6, 10-1; Abhipsa Rath bt Rishika V 6-4, 6-2.