Five seeds lose on day two
LUCKNOW: It was a day of upsets at the AITA Championship Series here on Tuesday as five seeded players in different categories lost in the second round matches, at the SDS Tennis Centre here.
Unseeded Samit Kesari brushed aside fifth seed Kanishk Pandey 6-1, 6-2, whereas another unseeded player Daksh Kumar beat fourth seed Yash Verma 6-0, 6-1 in the boys under-18 category.
Girls singles under-18 quarterfinals also witnessed an upset when unseeded Chavan Pari S of Maharashtra outplayed fourth seed Earm Zaidi of Up 6-1, 6-2.
But there was some consolation for Zaidi, who accounted for seventh seed Nistha Singh 6-1, 6-1 in a second round tie in the girls under-16 later in the day.
The only upset in the boys under-16 came in the form of fourth seed Aaron Sameul, who lost to unseeded Arjun Sharma 4-6, 2-6.
RESULTS
Boys u-18 (2nd round):
Vaibhav Singh Bisht bt Shourya Singh 6-0, 6-0; Torus Rawat bt Aditya Saraswat 6-3, 6-3; Siddhant Bhavnani bt Arjun Sharma 6-1, 6-0; Samit Kesari bt Kanishk Pandey 6-1, 6-2; Arnouv Majumdar bt Parth Ratra 6-2, 6-1; Daksh Kumar bt Yash Verma 6-0, 6-1; Aroun Sameul bt Akshay Garg 6-1, 6-2; Pranjal Tiwari bt Rahul Kumar.
Boys u-16 (2nd round):
Arnouv Majumdar bt Tarun Randhawa 6-2, 6-2; Shourya Singh bt Ankit Kumar 6-2, 6-2; Arjun Sharma bt Aaron Sameul 6-4, 6-2; Kanishk Pandey bt Pranjal Tewari 6-1, 6-1; Daksh Kumar bt Rahul Kumar 6-4, 6-0; Devansh Verma bt Shikhar Shukla 6-0, 6-0; Shubham Jeet Lal bt Chinmay Kackar 6-0, 6-1; Torus Rawat bt Mukul Lodhi 6-0, 6-0.
Girls u-18 (quarterfinals):
Shambhavi Tiwari bt Abhishikta Verma 6-3, 6-0; Chavan Pari S bt Eram Zaidi 6-1, 6-2; Tanushree Pandey bt Yati Besain 6-2, 6-2; Chahana B (bt Harsshali NM 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.
Girls u-16 (2nd round):
Chahana B bt Durba Gain 6-0, 6-0; Eram Zaidi bt Nishta Singh 6-1, 6-1; Amishi Shukla bt Yati Besain 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4; Harsshali NM bt Shagun Kumari 6-1, 6-0; Chavan Pari S bt Sachi Patwardhan 6-2, 6-2; Tanushree Pandey bt Tanisha Pranjal 6-0, 6-1; Yashita Singh bt Satakshi Tiwari 6-3, 6-4; Shambhavi Tiwari bt Shakti 6-3, 6-4.