Seven quarterfinalists in the Girls Under-10 section were spotted.

In all the other sections, matches went on without any hitch, with only 25 walkovers throughout the day (out of approximately 300 matches).

The most interesting match of the day came in the boys under-10 section, when tournament's third seed Likhit Chand of Andhra Pradesh went down fighting in three sets to Karnataka's Darshan.

Darshan caught the diminutive Andhra shuttler, unawares taking the first game at 15-11 before Likhit could realise what was happening. Likhit managed to strike back in the next game winning it at 18-16, but Darshan rode on `home' support to take the decider at 17-15.

In girls Under-16, Pooja Patil of Karnataka served her rivals a serious warning by routing AP's Manaswini 11-0,11-1.

RESULTS

Boys U-10 (3rd round): Muralidhar Reddy (AP) bt Anoop Kiran (Kar) 15-4 15-8; Aditya Bhargav (Kar) bt S Arjun (Ker) 15-4 15-5; N Shrujan (AP) bt Reejo V John (Ker) 15-0 15-2; Shankar Gopan (Ker) bt RL Karan (Kar) 15-10 15-4; Darshan (Kar) bt Likhit Chand (AP) 15-11 16-18 17-15; Varun Arora (Pun) bt Lokesh (AP) 17-14 15-7; Phalgun (Kar) bt Ram C Vijay (Ker) 15-1 15-0; Parin J Chopda (Mah) bt Ashmeet Singh (Del) 15-9 15-9; Rahul Rao (Kar) bt Sameer S Lele (Mah) 15-0 15-1; V Arjun (Kar) bt Rahul Jayaram (Ker) 15-5 15-7; N Arun (AP) bt B Shreyas (MP) 15-10 15-8; N R Darshan (Kar) bt Rushil Sirur (Kar) 15-6 15-3; Niranjandev Rajamanya (Kar) bt Alok Ragate (Kar) 15-1 15-3.

U-13 (3rd round): Astik Biswas (Kar) bt N S Karthik (Kar) 15-0 15-3; Vinay Kumar Reddy (AP) bt Kapil Dubey (Mah) 15-8 15-4; Ayyappan Krishna (Ker) bt Alok Ragate (Kar) 15-0 15-1; B Rahul (Kar) bt Arjun Prasad (Ker) 15-9 15-6; K Abhinand (Kar) bt Gaurav Kamath (Ker) 15-4 15-0.

U-16 (3rd round): K B Gurung(Arunachal) bt V M Avinash (Kar) 15-4 15-1.

Girls U-10 (PQF): Soumya Naik (Kar) bt N Sangeetha (TN) 11-6 11-3; G M Nischita (Kar) bt Ashwini Ponnappa (Kar) 11-2 11-2; Mari Anne (Kar) bt Gayatri Devi (AP) 11-1 11-3; Ranjana R Pathy (Kar) bt Aiswarya (Kar) 11-3 11-2; Ruth Misha (Kar) bt K M Navya (Kar) 11-2 11-0; Parsa Naqvi (UP) bt Anjana Reddy (AP) 11-1 11-2; Indu Srikanth (kar) bt Nitya Sosale (Kar) 11-8 11-1.

U-13 (3rd round): Ridhi Pajwane (Mah) bt Manisha (Ker) 11-3 11-5; N Nivedita (AP) bt Keerthi Patel (Kar) 11-1 11-1; Druti V Deshpande (Mah) bt Pragnya Shetty (Kar) 11-2 11-1; Anisha Premnath (Kar) bt Saranya Kannath (Ker) 11-0 11-0; Manavi S Rao (Kar) bt Manaswini (AP) 11-4 11-2; Aparna Balan (Ker) bt Vinitha M (Kar) 11-1 11-0; L Sreelakshmi (AP) bt K M Navya (Kar) 11-0 11-2; Aditi Muktakar (Mah) bt G M Nischita (Kar) 11-0 11-1; Shivani Mayekar (Mah) bt Sucheta (Kar) 11-2 11-1; Sanjana Pathi (Kar) bt Bhairavi Bhalekar (Kar) 11-1 11-0; Roma Patel (MP) bt Deepika Padukone (Kar) 11-511-4; Krishna Deka Raja (Asm) w/o Jeevana (Kar).

U-16 (3rd round): Pooja Patil (Kar) bt Manaswini (AP) 11-0 11-1; M V Saritha w/o Saritapriya; Diva Arora (Del) bt Vibha Holla (Kar) 11-0 11-0.