In another first-round match at the indoor stadium, sixth ranked Mangrish Palekar of Railways beat Devinder Dhillon of Delhi 15-8 15-10.

Results Men singles (1st round):

Sachin Ratti w/o Amit Mehrotra; Thomas Kurien w/o Arup Mehrotra; Ajit Wijetilak bt Ashish Chaddha 15-11 15-10; Vikrant Patwardhan bt Amrish Shinde 15-7 15-5; Ravinder Singh bt Mayur Ghatnekar 15-5 15-6; Srikant Bakshi bt Vijay Khanna 15-4 15-13; Parag Modi bt Sanket Shetty 15-4 15-10; Anuj Gupta bt Kiran Kumar 15-13 10-15 15-4; Jaison Xavier bt Roy Mathews 15-8 15-4; Abhinn Shyam Gupta bt Amitabh Goswami 15-10 15-7; OP Singh bt Rajesh Khandelwal 15-6 15-6.

Women singles (1st round):

Tanuja Begum w/o P Parul; Nirmala Kotnis bt Leela Rani 11-2 11-4; Shalaka Damle bt Ira Agarwal 11-0 11-0; BR Meenakshi bt Varsha 11-211-1.