Tennis: Easy for Abdulla and Prabodh

Top seed Shaikh Abdulla (Tamil Nadu) had an easy run into the second round of the boys singles as he ousted Dalwinder Singh 6-1, 6-1, in the AITA Adidas-MCC Junior National tennis championship here Monday.

Also advancing to the second round was No.2 seed Suraj R Prabodh from Karnataka who eased past Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-1, 6-0, while other fancied players also made progress without a hitch.

The results (1st round):

Boys singles: 1-Shaikh Abdulla bt Dalwinder Singh 6-1,6-1; Arjun Ramakrishnan bt Indra Patwardhan 6-2,6-0; Rian Pandole bt Aditya Deswal 6-3,6-4; Basil L Khuma bt Rohan Bhatia 6-0,6-1; Jajbir Singh Saran bt Siddharth S Reddy 6-2, 6-7 (7), 6-2; Akhil Kanagaraj bt Abhishek Gaur 6-3,6-3; Parikshit Somani bt Rohan Gajree 6-2,6-0; Nikshep BR bt Gagan Sharma 6-1,6-0; Adavelly Kumara P bt Jeffy Jacob 6-2,6-1; Amlanjyoti Baruah bt Aayush Mintri 2-6,6-4,6-4; Aditya Anant Gokhale bt Ranjeet Singh 6-4, 7-5; Mohd Fahad bt Shashank Nautiya l 6-3,6-7(6),6-0; Anvit Ketan Bendre bt Samyukt Balaji 6-3,7-5; Anush Dheer Singh bt Allen Johnson K 4-6,6-4,6-0; Vasudev Vijayraman bt Amarnath Arora 7-6(1),4-6,6-4; Raswant Ravi bt Gokul Suresh 6-3,6-2; Sahil Deshmukh bt Manav P 6-3,6-3; IB Akshay bt Rahul Singh7-6(5),6-2; Udayan Bhakar bt Jagtar Singh 7-6(0), 6-0; Mukund Sasikumar bt Deepak Vishakarma 6-2, 6-1; Neeraj Elangovan bt Hardeep Singh Sandhu 3-6, 6-0, 6-4; Ishaque Eqbal bt Anurag Nenwani 6-3,7-5; Lakshamanan Balaji bt Jude Raymond 6-1,6-0; Fatehdeep Singh bt R Ramakrishnan 7-6(4),4-6, 6-1; Venkata Gnana B bt Rahul Robinson 6-3,3-6, 6-2; Rahul B Srinivas bt Mingki Talom 6-4,6-0; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt M Sai Nikhil 7-6(6),6-1; Ronit Singh Bisht bt Sanil Jagtiani 6-0,6-1; Alex Solanki bt Vishnu Prasad 6-0,6-1; R.S. Mohit bt Richie Agarwal 6-2,6-3; 2-Suraj R Prabodh bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-1,6-0.

Girls singles: Abhinikka R bt Vineeta Singh 6-2,6-4; Ramya Natarajan bt Anusha Kondavetti 6-4,3-6,6-3; Rashmita Reddy bt Rajshree Rathod 6-2, 6-4; Nandini Das bt Bhavani Balakumar 6-2,6-2; Shweta Sangwan bt Kanishka Chawla 6-0,6-2; A Shameema bt Lavanya Saravanan 7-5,6-2; Shristi Slaria bt Nupur Umashakar 6-2,6-4; Simran Wadhwa bt Sharlee Vijay Deshmukh 3-6,6-2,6-1.