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Local girls Noor Paul, Shilpa Naruka, Iktesh Chahal and Prabhamrit Kaur grabbed wild card in the girls’ singls main draw of 48. Tanvi Gupta and Prerna Mythri Appineni will also figure in the main draw as wild cards.
According to CLTA chairman Rajan Kashyap, in the main draw which begins on Monday (January 7), 34 direct entries have been received. Besides two special exempt, six wild cards and six qualifiers would make the draw of 48 boys as well as girls singles. Five local boys, including Vijayant Malik and Shiva Sangwan and three wild card entrants will figure in the main draw. Malik, a CLTA Rural Scheme trainee, will be start bet of Chandigarh.
The organisers will provide full hospitality to all main draw players till they remain in the fray.
Today eight matches in the boys’ singles qualifying were played in a draw of 24. Six qualifiers would be spotted tomorrow.
Digvijay Singh Mehta and Shaolin of Chandigarh won their first round qualifying matches. Digvijay outplayed Subhash C. Rao 6-0 6-1, Chandom Shaloin beat Anubhav Chaudhary 6-1, 6-2.
Qualifying results (Ist round):
Digvijay S. Mehta (Ind) bt Subhash C. Rao (Ind) 6-0, 6-1, Chandam Shaolin (Ind) bt Anubhav Chaudhary (Ind) 6-1, 6-2, Siddhant Solanki (Ind) bt Tsatkin Aleksandr (Uzb) 6-4, 6-4, Khayriddinov Diyor (Uzb) bt Sanjay Shankar 6-3, 6-3, S. Veera Vasanth Venkatesh (Ind) bt Manjunath Sagar (Ind) 6-1, 6-3, M. Naveen Sai (Ind) bt Anmol Singh (Ind) 6-0, 6-0, Akshat Joshi (Ind) bt Mohammad Aiman Bin Abdullah (Bru) 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, Adit Jain (Ind) bt Gumohit S. Junjua (Ind) 6-3, 6-4, Polok Bhattacharya (Ind) bt Sidharth Rawat (Ind) 7-6 (3), 6-4.
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