All the seeded players in their respective sections had a comfortable time.

In a keen tussle witnessed in sub-junior boys singles, unseeded Sushil Sawant of Mumbai Suburban came back from behind to pip a resolute Parag Tulpule of Pune 9-15, 15-6, 15-2 and entered the second round.

The mini boys section also saw a fair amount of keen fare as Rahul Phadnis of Pune put it across Vivek Khubba of Latur 15-10, 5-15, 15-9 while Amit Khadgi of Aurangabad rallied to get the better of Apurva Mangrulkar of Pune 9-15, 15-12, 15-5 to make it to the second round.

Also joining them were Alok Kulkarni of Pune who made a remarkable recovery to prevail over Salil Kulkarnialso of Pune 12-15, 15-11, 15-6. Ashwin Palande of Pune put it across city-mate Akshay Jagdeo 15-11 , 10-15, 9-15.

RESULTS

BOYS (Junior, singles): Parag Barve (Pune) bt Vinayak Ghatge (Sangli) 15-3, 15-5; Merrick Sanap (Aurangabad) bt Rajneelam Bansode (Pune) 15-6, 15-4; Amol Kanade (Pune) bt Ashish Bhide (Thane) 15-8, 15-8.

Doubles: Karan Modi-Suraj Thakur (Gr Mumbai) bt Gaurav Purandare-Ashutosh deshpande(Pune) 15-1, 18-13; Abhijit Ayrekar (Pune)-Amogh Kulkarni (Thane) bt Siddharth Wagh-Dinesh Vishwas W/O, Amar Mohite-Sumedh Deorurkar (Thane) bt Vinayak Putran-Rahul Tipnis (Mumbai Sub) 15-10, 15-17, 15-8; Prashant Bahature(Nanded)-Himanshu Thakkar(thane) bt Virag Shah-Amit Arware(Sangli) w/o Amit Sanp (Aurangabad)-Deepak Jetley (Thane) bt Varun Khanvalkar-Sameer Bhagwat (Pune) 15-8, 2-15, 15-8.

Sub-junior (doubles): Kunal D'Sa-Sujay Datar (Pune) bt Ganesh Kulkarni-Sachin Mankar (Buldhana) 15-5, 15-0; Nishad Dravid-Soham Gadgil (Pune) bt Sudeep Joshi-Varun Govande (Thane)15-1, 15-0; Ajity Phatak-Shiben Rawat (Pune) bt Aditya Kulkarni-Merick Gonsalves (Thane) 18-16, 15-9; Pravin Upadhaye-Jitendra Salunke (Thane) bt Virag Shah-Vinayak Ghatge (Sangli) 14-17, 15-3, 15-11; Amol Kanade-Yatin Nageshkar (Pune) bt Ninad Khade-Nikhil Lokhande (Pune) 15-11, 12-15, 18-17; Amit Sanap (Aurangabad)-Deepak Jetley (Thane) bt Sameer Bhagwat-Varun Khanvalkar (Pune) 15-8, 2-15, 15-8.