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Vishnu K. Jinan and Alla Abhishek ousted

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Mysore: Seventh-seeded Vishnu K. Jinan (Karnataka) and eighth seeded Alla Abhishek (Andhra Pradesh) were shown the door on the opening day, when they were beaten by unseeded Acharaya Bharadwaj (Andhra Pradesh) 9-7 and qualifier Pyara Singh (Karnataka) 9-8(5) in the first round of the Boys under-16 singles of the MTA-MTC AITA championship series tournament for juniors at the MTC courts here on Monday.

Top-seeded Viinod Gowda (Karnataka), second-seeded Alla Srikar (Andhra Pradesh), third seeded Chirag S Igoor and fourth seeded C.M. Kiran (both of Karnataka) registered good wins over their respective rivals to enter the pre-quarterfinals in the boys under-16 singles.

The results:

Boys under-16 singles: First round: Vinod Gowda (Kar) bt Anirudh Puranic (Kar) 9-0; Alla Srikar (AP) bt Varun Gopal (Kar) 9-5; Chirag S Igoor (kar) bt Ravind Gowda (Kar) 9-0; C.M. Kiran (Kar) bt Karn N Patel (Guj) 9-6; Vishwanath Sawadi (Kar) bt G.L. Karthik (Kar) 9-4; Md. Ashraf (TN) bt Vikaram Naidu (Kar) 9-3; Acharya Bharadwaj (AP) bt Vishnu K Jinan (Kar) 9-7; Pyara Singh (Kar) bt Alla Abhishek (AP) 9-8 (5); R.Harish (TN) bt V. Senthil Kumar (TN) 9-6; S. Karan (Kar) bt C.Hemanth Kumar (Kar) 9-3; Rohit Srinath (Kar) bt Y.B. Vinay (Kar) 9-2; R.Vigneshwaran (TN) bt Tarun Nath (AP) 9-0; S. Raghavendra (Kar) bt Rishab Agarwal (AP) 9-3; Ganga Singh (Kar) bt Assad Jaffer (Kar) 9-7; Sai R Avinash (TN) bt V. Adithya (TN) 9-3.

Boys under-14 singles: Vinod Gowda (Kar) bt Tarun Nath (AP) 9-0; Alla Srikar (AP) bt Adithya Bhat (Ker) 9-4; R. Vigneshwaran (TN) bt Y. Akhil Reddy (AP) 9-1; Acharaya Bharadwaj (AP) bt Sumuka V Karanth (Kar) 9-8(4); Alla Abhishek (AP) bt V. Adithya (TN) 9-1; S. Karan (Kar) bt Ravind Gowda (Kar) 9-1; Y. Sriman (AP) bt Siddarth Reddy (TN) 9-2; S.M. Abdullah (AP) bt A. Nikit Prasad (AP) 9-4.

Girls under-16 singles: Pooja Patil (Kar) bt J. Amoolya (Kar) 9-6; Aishwarya Nunes bt B. Amala 9-6; Likitha Shetty (Kar) bt Dhruthi T Venugopal (Kar) 9-7; L.S. Archana (Kar) bt Vidhya Bharat (Kar) 9-8 (2); Surya Suresh (Kar) bt Sambhavi Dixit (AP) 9-8 (3); Vaibhavi S Trivedi (Guj) bt Varsha Poojari (Kar) 9-4; Amla Amul (Kar) bt R.S. Kavitha (Kar) 9-1; Preeti Ujjaini (Kar) bt S.G. Abhinaya (Kar) 9-3; Tanvi S Nath (AP) bt Nupur Roy Chaudhary (Kar) 9-5; Maya Mahalingam (TN) bt S. swetha (TN) 9-8 (5); Spurthi S (Kar) bt R. Mahashri (TN) 9-3; V.K.C. Vishvesh (AP) bt Monica sangani (Guj) 9-0.

Girls under-14 singles: Preeti Ujjaini (Kar) bt Sahana Shroff (Kar) 9-1; Vaibhavi T (Guj) bt J. Amoolya (Kar) 9-1; Mrinalini A (AP) bt Aishwarya Nunes (Goa) 9-4; Laharishree (Kar) bt Nupur Roy Chaudharay (Kar) 9-3; S. swetha (kar) bt M.A. Chaya (Kar) 9-1; R. Mahasri (TN) bt Shambhavi Dixit (AP) 9-2; V.K.C. Vishesh (AP) bt S.G. Abhinaya (Kar) 9-0; Rajashree Thota (AP) bt T.G. Janani (TN) 7-3 (concd.); B.Amala (Kar) bt Swathi Kumar (Kar) 9-2; Surya Suresh (Kar) bt Varunya Chandrashekar (kar) 9-4; Pooja R Patil (Kar) bt Urmila Gunuganti (AP) 9-7; Spurthi S (Kar) bt Dimple Verma (Kar) 9-0.

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