In another first-round encounter between West Bengal players, Nishat Eqbal outplayed Ishaque Eqbal in three sets 5-3, 1-4, 4-2. Another local lad Nischay Rawal outclassed Arush Sood of Punjab comfortably 4-1, 4-1. Rishav Dev of Punjab breezed into the next round beating Sachin of Chandigarh without dropping even a single game in short sets 4-0, 4-0.

In boys under-12 singles match between two Chandigarh players, Himanshu Gupta rallied down Lovedeep Benipal 3-5, 4-1, 5-3 in an eventful match which stretched to three sets. Harkirat K. Bains of Chandigarh fought hard Shweta Sangwan of Haryana 4-2, 4-5 (5), 4-1 in the girls under-14 singles first-round match.

Boys U-14-Singles:

First Round: Dheer Anush Bhatti (Chd) bt Aakash Chauhan (Chd) 4-3, 4-2, Ankush Arora (Pb) bt Dalwinder Singh (Pb) 0-4, 4-2, 4-0, Bhavtaranpreet Singh (Chd) bt Ranjeet Singh (Chd) 4-2, 5-4 (4), Rishav Dev (Pb) Sachin (Chd) 4-0, 4-0, Nischay Rawal (Chd) bt Arush Sood (Pb) 4-1, 4-1, Kundan Singh (Chd) bt Yashesh Mulchandani (MP) 4-5 (3), 5-3, 4-1, Pranav Suri (Chd) bt Umesh Kumar 4-1, 4-2, Amit Bzad (Pb) bt JAskirat Aneja (MP) 4-0, 4-0, Kuwar Singh Tater (Asm) bt Agrish Sharma 4-1, 4-1, Nishat Eqbal (WB) bt Ishaque Eqbal (WB) 5-3, 1-4, 4-2, Srijan Uppal (Chd) bt Sonu (Pb) 4-1, 4-1, Jajbir Singh (Pb) Jatinder Singh (Chd) 2-4, 4-2, 4-2, Mandeep Kumar (Chd) bt Sohil Singh 4-1, 4-1, Uday Singh Mann (Chd) bt Tejas Kapoor (Dli) 4-1, 4-1, Dhruv Pal (Utr) bt Abhijit Singh (Chd) 5-4 (2), 4-1, Manish Kumar (Dli) bt Ranjood (Pb) 4-1, 4-0.

Boys U-12-Singles:

First Round: Jatinder Singh (Chd) bt Nihit Rawal (Chd) 4-0, 4-0, Arush Sood (Pb) bt Ishan Kakkar (Pb) 4-0, 4-0, Sultan Singh (Pb) bt Aseem Verma 4-1, 4-2, Dhruv Pal (Utr) bt Yashesh Mulchandani (MP) 4-0, 4-1, Ishaque Eqbal (WB) bt Jaskirat Aneja (MP) 4-1, 4-1, Sameer Vats bye, Himanshu Gupta (Chd) bt lovedeep Benipal (Chd) 3-5, 4-1, 5-3, Sachin Kumar (Chd) bt Parampun (Chd) 4-2, 5-3, Ankush Arora (Pb) bt Kunnal Punj (Utr) 4-2, 4-1, Tejas Kapoor (Dli) bt Paramveer S. Bajwa 4-1, 4-2, Anush Dheer Bhatti (Chd) bt Akhil Bansal (Pb) 4-0, 4-0, Kundan Singh (Chd) bt Sumit Pal (Chd) 4-2, 5-3, Shrey Gupta bt Tapish Narwal (Chd) 4-0, 4-0, Amit Bzad (Pb) bt Harpreet S. Bains (Chd) 4-1, 4-0, Raghav Talwar (Chd) bt Rohin Vinayak (Chd) 5-3, 4-2,

Girls U-14-Singles

First Round: Shaina Dewan bt Sanesh Bhatnagar 4-0, 4-0, Nikita bt Suvarna Singh 4-1, 4-1, Harkirat K. Bains (Chd) bt Shweta Sangwan (Hry) 4-2, 4-5 (5), 4-1, Shreya bt Karman KAur 4-1, 4-0, Deepti Rana bt Simran Wadhwa (Chd) 5-4 (1), 5-3, Hasan Abdal Dhanoa (Pb) bt Naemat Aulakh (Chd) 4-0, 4-0, Bhavya Wadhavan (Chd) bt Harsimran Kaur 4-1, 1-4, 4-0, Sabrina Gill (Chd) bt Ankriti 4-0, 5-3, Vanshika Sawhney (Chd) bt Simarjeet Kaur (Pb) 4-1, 4-1, Harman Kaur (Pb) bt Khushpreet Kaur (Pb) 4-2, 4-1, Riya Bhatia (Dli) bt Ayna Arora (Chd) 4-0, 4-0.

Girls U-12-Singles