Abhinn, the former national junior champion, made short work of Nishanth (Kerala) before winning 15-8, 15-1. The evenness in the first game, in which the Kerala lad borthered Abhinn a bit, the latter hardly faced any resistance right through the 35 minute encounter.

Second seeded Arup Baidya of Railways, national junior runner-up, conceded just seven points in his 15-3, 15-4 drubbing of a Srinivas, also of Railways, in a lop-sided encounter.

RESULTS

Junior boys (Singles, first round): Abin Shyam Gupta (A-I) bt Nishanth (Ker) 15-8, 15-1, KT Rupesh Kumar (Ker) bt Manmeet Singh (Delhi) 15-9, 15-12, R Rohan (Maha) bt K Manikandan (PY) 15-3, 15-3, Anup Sridhar (Kar) bt P Vijay Srinivas (AP) 15-11, 15-3,Kumar Dev Rajmanya (Kar) bt N Venkatesh (TN) 15-4, 15-7, M Srikrishna (AP) bt NN Vinyak (AP) 15-11, 15-3, Swaranjeet (UP) bt GD Yuvaraj Kumar (TN) 15-10, 18-17, Kanisha Das (WB) bt V Diju (Ker) 15-7, 8-15, 15-7, Thomas Kurian (Rlys) bt Shasikanth (AP) 15-1, 15-7, J Santhosh (TN) bt Gulraj Kahan (MP) 15-6, 15-7, Arjun Kalia (Delhi) bt P Sathya Prabhas (TN) 15-1, 15-5, A Prithvi (AP) bt Pankaj B Naik (Goa) 17-14, 15-1, Mitesh Hazarnis (A-I) bt Anand Ganguli (UP) 15-7, 15-0, Kunal Makawana (MP) bt Mrin Moypal (WB) 15-3, 15-5, Sandeep Roy (Assam) bt Mohammed Ali (TN) 15-0, 15-2, Madhur Kalia (Delhi) bt E Aravind (TN) 15-1, 15-1, JBS Vidyadar (Rlys) bt Tirtha Mandal (WB) 15-5, 15-5, Bhushan Paithankar (Maha) w/o CT Anand (TN), Saurav Singh (UP) bt Vivek Yadav (MP) 15-1, 15-10, Arun (Ker) bt Anand Krishna (AP) 15-5, 15-1, Chetan Anand (A-I) bt Nitinsuman (Delhi) 15-1, 15-4, Abhishek Bakshi (Kar) bt Vikram Agarwal (UP) 15-8, 15-8, Hemant Duggal (Delhi) bt Harshad Tawade (Maha) 15-8, 15-7, Ravindra Singh (A-I) btTanvir Singh (Delhi) 15-9, 15-7, Sanaya Thomas (Ker) bt P Subramaniyam (AP) 15-12, 15-7, RB Muruganandam (TN) bt Harish Lal Chand (AP) 14-17, 15-2, 15-8, Arup Baidya (Rlys) bt A Srinivas (Rlys) 15-3, 15-4.

Sub-junior boys (1st round): SDS Krishna (Ktk) bt Manik Saigal (Dli) 15-6, 15-6, Gaurav Sivach (UP) bt Sabya Sachidas (Orissa) 15-1, 15-4 SD Masekar Bose (WB) bt Mithesh Panday (MP) 15-3, 15-5, Sunil Dharwadkar (Goa) bt Bhaskar Raju (AP) 15-11, 15-11, MD Khalid (UP) bt Avdoot Sukantaar (Ktk) 18-13, 15-9, G Gokul (Ker) bt Moindeen (AP) 15-7, 15-0, Sumedh Deorukakar (Mah) bt D Manoj (TN) 15-3, 15-3, Pratik Devgirikar (MP) bt Jitendra Varma (AP) 15-3, 15-4, Swaranjeet (UP) bt Rajendran (PY) 15-3, 15-1, C Dayalan (TN) bt P Satish Chandra (AP) 15-8, 15-3, Saurav Saboo (Ker) bt Joe Pradeep (TN) 15-8, 15-8, Akash Singa (Dli) bt Saquib Iliyas (Ktk) 15-4, 15-2, Amit Saxena (MP) bt Utsav Prakash (Kar) 15-12, 15-6, Soham Gadgil (Maha) bt Sathish Mathew (Py) 15-12, 15-13, Ch Chandrasekar (AP) bt G SrinivasaRao (AP) 15-1, 15-0, Bini N Balan (Ker) bt G Prajapatay (UP) 15-2, 15-9, B Vikas (AP) bt Amat Kumar (Delhi) 15-2, 15-2, Amit Chowhan (UP) bt Ashish Kumar (UP) 15-4, 18-14.