Akshita Basavaraju of Karnataka beat Nelord 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the quarter-finals stage of ladies singles while Tamil Nadu’s Grace Hannah ousted Patna girl Shilpi Jaiswal 6-3, 6-4.
Second seed Ragini Vimal and fifth seed Shivika Burman, both city girls, also advanced to the quarter-finals. Defending champion Ragini took little time in beating Chennai’s B Svarupa Raadhae 6-3, 6-2. Shivika steamrolled Richa Valechha 6-2, 6-0.
In the men’s singles first round matches, two Kolkata lads managed to stay afloat. Harshvardhan Thirani justified his wild card entry by defeating qualifier from Karnataka Rafiq Paruti 6-2, 6-4 and qualifier Vinod Kumar Sewa made the most of wild card too by bulldozing Yashwant Pulumati 6-2, 6-0. Thirani now faces top seed VM Ranjeet, while Sewa will take on second seed Vinod Sridhar.
Today’s results:
Main Draw: Men’s Singles First Round: Harshvardhan Thirani (WC)(WB)(74) beat Rafiq Paruti (Q)(Kar)(78) 6-2,6-4; N. Sriram Balaji (TN)(49) beat Sunil Goswami (Q)(IAF) 6-3,6-0; Yogesh Phogat (HSIIDC)(38) beat Jitin Bishnoi (Q)(HSIIDC)(98) 7-5,7-6(7-2); A.S. Suresh Krishna (AP)(58) beat Kamlesh Kumar Shukla (Q)(UP) 6-1,4-2(Retd.); N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (4)(TN)(22) beat Aniket Sudhir (Q)(Mah)(66) 6-3,6-4; Yannick Nelord (7)(Dli)(26) beat Javed Akbar Hazary (Q)(Pun)(74) 6-3,4-6,6-3; Rahil Makharia (Mah)(53) beat Ankit Patel (LL)(Cg)(85) 6-1,6-1; Vinod Kumar Sewa (Q)(WB)(66) beat Yashwant Pulumati (WC)(AP)(151) 6-2,6-0; Vinod Sridhar (2)(TN)(14) beat Bharat Bhardwaj (Q)(UP)(78) 6-2,6-0.
Ladies’ Singles First Round: Andrea Das (WC)(WB)(89) beat Mohana Sarker (WB)(57) 1-6,6-2,7-5.
Ladies’ Singles Pre Quarter Finals: Asha Nanda Kumar (1)(Kar)(12) beat Ahana Banerjee (WC)(WB) 6-0,6-0; Anushree Thammanna (7)(Kar)(44) beat Andrea Das (WC)(WB)(89) 6-4,6-3; Akshita Basavaraju (Kar)(52) beat Jilke Nelord (3)(Dli)(31) 6-2,6-4; Rani Smita Jain (6)(IAF)(41) beat Surabhi Gurung (WB) 6-0,6-0; Shivika Burman (5)(WB)(40) beat Richa Valechha (WB)(71) 6-2,6-0; Grace Hannah (TN)(75) beat Shilpi Jaiswal (4)(Bih)(32) 6-3,6-4; Abhilasha Ahuja (8)(Har)(45) beat Prerna Prathap (Kar)(58) 6-4,3-6,6-4; Ragini Vimal (2)(WB)(19) beat B. Svarupa Raadhae (TN)(58) 6-3,6-2.
Men’s Doubles Qualifying Final Round (Best of 15 games) : Deepinder Bains (Chd) & Bharat Bhardwaj (UP)(1) beat Biplab Das (WB) & Bhagirath Kumar (WB) 8-5; Ashmeet Singh & Vishwanath Savadi w/o Rohan Gide (Mah) & Kamlesh Kumar Shukla (UP)(3); Vijayant Malik (Chd) & Jitin Bishnoi (HSIIDC)(4) beat Yashwant Pulumati (AP) & Bharat Srinivasan Parthasarathi (TN) 8-5; Abhijeet Tiwari (Cg) & A.S. Suresh Krishna (AP) beat Rafiq Paruti (Kar) & Ranjit Lal Pasricha (Kar)(2) 8-0.
Men’s Doubles Pre Quarter Finals: Saurav Sukul (WB) & Yannick Nelord (Dli)(3) beat Farid Alam & Robin Das (WB) 6-3,6-3; Rahil Makharia (Mah) & Alon Moses (Mah) beat Yogesh Phogat (HSIIDC) & Jitender Mehlda (Har) 4-6,6-3,(11-9); Fariz Mohammad (TN) & Kaushik Raju (Kar) beat Bhishma Desai (Guj) & Ankit Patel (Cg) 6-2,7-5; Arjun Goutham (Kar) & Vinod Sridhar (TN)(2) beat Vinod Kumar Sewa (WB) & Manoj Kumar Sewa (WB) 6-2,6-2.
Ladies’ Doubles Pre Quarter Finals : Grace Hannah (TN) & Anushree Thammanna (Kar) beat Mokshada Jain (WB) & Richa Valechha (WB) 6-2,7-6(7-1); Asha Nanda Kumar (Kar) & Akshitha Basavaraju (Kar) beat Andrea Das (WB) & Omlata Kumari Rai (UP) 6-3,6-3.