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Two seeds crash out

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BANGALORE: Two upsets marked the opening round of the girls’ singles in the Asian Tennis Federation (ATF) under-14 championship at the Bowring Institute courts here on Monday.

Jasmine Kaur, playing a near flawless baseline game, overpowered sixth-seeded Nilushi Fernando of Sri Lanka 6-1, 6-2, while Rimpledeep Kaur humbled eighth-seeded Aishwarya Nunes 6-1, 6-1.

The top seed, Theiviya Selvaraj of Malaysia advanced to the second round with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Rajbir Kaur. Malaysian top seed Agil Mohammed Syed took less than 35 minutes to dump wild card A. Puranic 6-0, 6-0 in the boys’ singles. Nischay Rawal, meanwhile, sprang a surprise defeating fancied Malaysian Khoer Yang 6-1, 6-3. The other Indians to move up were Vishal Passi, Vinod Gowda and Yash Deshpande.

The results (first round, Indians unless specified):

Boys: Agil Mohammed Syed (Mas) bt Anirudh Puranic 6-0, 6-0; Vivek Wagmare bt Savio Anthony 6-4, 6-1; Nugyen Hoang Thein (Vie) bt Nikhil Reddy 6-2, 6-0; Giovani Samha (Leb) bt Anvit Bendra 4-6, 6-2, 6-0; Abhishek Alla bt Aamir Sohrab 6-1, 6-1; Mukund Sashikumar bt Venkata Ramanan 6-0, 6-2; Ryan Serrao bt Hardeep Singh Sandhu 6-2, 7-5; Nischal Rawal bt Khoer Yang 6-1, 6-3; Yash Deshpande bt R. Sanjeev 6-0, 6-0; A.K. Parthasarathy bt Asu Kumar Bhuyan 6-2, 7-6(4); Abhimnayu Dakwale bt Harsha Manjunath 6-3, 6-2; Digvijay Naruka bt Rajanvir Singh Dharani 6-2, 6-1; Vinod Gowda bt Rishab Dev 6-0, 6-1; Hanifah Rahizam (Mas) bt Pranav 6-2, 6-1; Surya Pavan bt H. Suraj 6-4, 7-6(5); Vishal Passi bt Kuwar Singh 6-0, 6-0.

Girls: Tarannum Handa bt S.P. Ritu 7-5, 6-3; Pooja Kudesia bt Indiani Nagireddy 6-0, 6-0; Preethi Gokhale bt Sayesha Dalal 6-0, 6-0; Shwetha Srihari bt Srijita Ghosh 6-2, 6-1; Roma Chandra bt Shloka Kumar 7-5, 5-7, 6-1; Iska Teertha bt Vasundhara Raje 6-0, 6-0; Shagufta Shaikh bt Neesha Menon 7-6(5), 6-4; Rimpledeep Kaur bt Aishwarya Nunes 6-1, 6-1; Rituja Sampath Bhosle bt Surya Tejaswini 5-7, 6-1, 6-2; Shreya Malhotra bt Amulya 6-1, 6-1; Jasmine Kaur bt Nilushi Fernando 6-1, 6-2; Theiviya Selvaraj (Mas) bt Rajbir Kaur 7-5, 6-2.

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