Top seeded in second round after scoring easy wins
Barring a few lower ranked players, all the top ranked under-16 boys stormed into the second round of the AITA Talent Series Tennis Championship, notching up convincing wins, at the SDS Tennis Academy here on Monday.
Top seeded Vaibhav Singh Bisht outplayed Pavitra Singh 8-1, whereas second seeded Aditya Saraswat knocked out Arihan Goel 8-2. Both fifth seeded Yash Verma and eighth seeded Rishabh Mehra had to make early exits.
Yash lost to unseeded Nishant Singh3-8,w here as Rishabh went down fighting to Ar ya Goel 7-8 (5).
In the under-14 boys singles, the only upset came late in the evening when eighth seeded Rishabh Mehra lost to Rishi Bhatt 6-8.
RESULTS
Boys under-16 (first round): Vaibhav Singh Bisht bt Pavitra Singh 8- 1, Umakant Singh bt Bhoomish Purswani 8-0, Prakhar Awasthi bt Vishish Mishra 8-1, Prakhar Raj Gupta bt Yash Raj Purohit 8-1, Srikant Thakur bt Kaartic Gupta 8-0, Rishit Bhatt bt Vaibhav Utkarsh 8-0, Lakshta Tikoo bt Shubham Jeet Lal 8-3, Nishant Singh bt Yash Verma 8-5, Ankit Vishwakarma bt Parth Ratra 8-1, Aafaan Kidwai bt Anshuman Saxena 8-3, Daksh Kumar Singh bt Vatsal Srivastava 8-7 (4), Ambitious Goldsmith bt Satyam Gupta 8-2, Arya Goel bt Rishab Mehra 8-7 (5), Samuel Aaron bt Jai Bhardwaj 8-3, Shashikant Thakur bt Shivay Jaiswal 8-2, Aditya Saraswat bt Arihan Goel 8-2.
Boys under-14 (first round): Vaibhav Singh Bisht bt Kaartic Gupta 8-0, Anshuman Saxena bt Daksh Kumar Singh 8-7 (4), Tarun Randhawa bt Aarush Verma 8-1, Ambitious Goldsmith bt Madhav Prakash 8-0, Umakant Singh bt Shivay Jaiswal 8-3, Shashikant Thakur bt Shaurya Gupta 8-2, Nishant Singh bt Parth Ratra 8-2, Amogh Pal bt Pavitra Singh 8-5, Shubhamjeet Lal bt Satyam Gupta 8-5, Rajnish Rai bt Arjun Sharma 8-3, Srikant Thakur bt Arihant Goel 8-0, Rishit Bhatt bt Rishab Mehra 8-6, Lakshta Tikoo bt Aniket Srivastava 8-1, Achyut Singh bt Vishesh Meshra 8- 5, Aditya Saraswat bt S amuel Aaron 8-1. EASY WIN Brijesh Sonkar and Rachit Sonkar shared six wickets between them as GGS Sports College trounced Rudransh Club by 63 runs to collect full points in the 13th Babu Banarasi Das ‘B’ Division Cricket League, at the LDA Stadium here on Monday. BIG VICTORY Riding high on a superb 90 by Umakant Sharma, Sound Images Club on Monday crushed NDBG Group by 126 runs in a league match of the 1st Tauqeer Memorial Cricket Tournament, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here. ATHLETICS TEAM The District Athletics Association on Monday announced its 35-member team for the UP State Athletics Championship, starting April 1, at the Sports College here. The team members included, Shakti Gupta, Vinod Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Sachin Kashyap, Suryadev Singh, Sachin Kumar, Saurabh Sachani, Utkarsh Gupta, Gyanprakash Shar ma, Devendra Kumar, Shyam Kishore, Manveer, Mritunjay, Indrajeet, Shivam Mishra, Prashant Pandey, Anil Kumar, Satyadev Verma, Amarjeet, Vikas Pandey, Ritesh, Ravindra Kumar, Shyam Kishore, Ravi Kumar Pal, Ankit Kumar, Siraz Ahmed, Ritesh, Apporvi Awasthi, Anju Patel, Pooja Verma, Deepali Yadav, Sufiy, Kavita Yadav and Sudha Pal.