Mithun Murali sent top seeded Sanzaruz Zaman packing in three sets 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 while Avinash Arun did a quicker job with second seed, Kedar Tembe, bouncing him 6-1, 6-4.

Both players incidentally, started off under the same coach -- Illyas Hussain. Avinash still plays with Illyas while Mithun does time at the Krishnan Tennis Centre too.

Fifth seeded Dipesh Rao of Maharashtra was another one who got a good scare from unseeded Sangram Chapekar but went through in three sets.

In the men's matches this morning, things weren't as turbulent, with all the seeds living to see another round.

Sixth seeded Asif Ismail, this year's Arjuna Award winner, got into a tangle in the second set against Bangalore boy S K Shivshankar butregrouped to win it in the third.

Second seeded Nitin Kirtane had his job cut real short when Rajesh Vohra conceded after losing the first set 3-6.

The gifted Calcuttan, Saurav Panja, back from a long haul in the US took out Kamala Kannan in straight sets. Another southerner, Praveen Kumar, who shuttles constantly between home and Europe, didn't have the final say in a three set affair against Rohan Boppanna.

UZMA PULLS OUT: Women's national champ Uzma Khan pulled out of the $ 5000 ITF Women's circuit in Ahmedabad from October 12-18 due to her academic commitments.

RESULTS

Men's: Vasudeva Reddy bt Vijayendra Laad 6-2 6-4; Mustafa Ghouse bt C S Mohanty 6-2 6-0; Jagdish Tanwar bt Anup Minda 6-2 2-0 (conceded); Sailesh Dhoble bt V N Prem Prakash 6-7(3-7) 6-2 6-2; Vijay Kannan bt Kedar Shah 7-6(5) 6-2; Anand Radhakrishnan bt Ashutosh Singh 6-1 6-2; Ravi Karan Bhatt bt Amanjit Singh Gill 6-3 6-4; Vishal Uppal bt S Zaman 6-0 6-2; Saurav Panja bt Kamla Kannan 6-4 6-3; Rohan Saikia bt C VAnand 6-2 6-3; Vinod Sridhar bt Umang Chadda 6-2 6-3; Rishi Sridhar bt S Narendranath 7-5 1-6 6-2; Harsh Mankad bt Rajkumar Gopalan 2-6 6-3 1-0(conceded).

Boys u-18: Mithun Murali bt S Zaman 6-1 4-6 6-1; R Narendran bt Aditya Talwar 6-1 6-0; Parantap Chaturvedi bt Saif Ali 2-6 6-1 7-5; Rohan Saikia bt Arpan Lakhani 7-5 6-1; Akshay Rao beat Syed Sarfraj 6-3 6-4; Abhijit Mazumdar bt Rahul Sharma 6-3 6-2; Pratim Parekh bt P Ravi Krishnan 7-6(7-4) 6-3; S Dipesh Rao bt Sangram Chapekar 6-4 5-7 6-3; C S Mohanty bt S Raghavanand 6-0 6-4; Nirmit Shetty bt Harshit Sharma 3-6 6-2 6-2; Aditya Khanna bt Aditya Shriram 7-6(7-4) 6-4; Avinash Arun bt Kedar Tambe 6-1 6-4; Kedar Shah bt Kamla Kannan 6-3 3-6 6-1; Vijayendra Laad bt Benjamin Xavier 6-4 6-4.