National under-14 champion, Parantap seems to be going through a crisis of confidence as he slid to his second consecutive first round defeat. He also lost in the first round of the junior Nationals recently.

Preethi Rao of Tamil Nadu produced the only upset in the girls section, bouncing statemate and sixth seed Vishnu Preetham 6-3, 6-2.

RESULTS

1st Round: (Boys): 1-Kedar Tembe (Mah) bt R Arun Prakash (TN) 6-0, 6-1; Asutosh Singh (Del) bt Vivek Chandrasekar (AP) 6-2, 6-4; Siddarth Sudhakar (Kar) bt Anant Sitaram (AP) 6-1, 6-1; 5-Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) bt Chinna Kannan (TN) 6-3, 6-4; 4-Sunil Kumar bt Arjun Sharma (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; Benjamin Xavier (Mah) bt Vivian Chetri (Del) 6-4, 6-2; Nirmit Shetty(Kar) bt 8-Parantap Chaturvedi (Del) 6-1, 6-1; 3-N Mukundan (TN) bt Ritesh Chitlangia (Rajasthan) 6-0, 6-3; 2-Kedar Shah (Mah) bt Vel Murugan (TN) 6-1, 6-3; Arvind Prakash (TN) bt Manoj Balaji (TN) 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4); Chatwinder Singh (Del) bt Gurmehar Singh (Del) 0-6, 6-2, 6-3; 7-Kamala Kannan (TN) bt Abhijit Mazumdar (Mah) 7-5, 6-3; AR Anand Kumar (AP) bt Vimal Keerthi (TN) 6-3, 6-4; Jai Arora (Mah) bt Jaidev Punjabi (Kar) 6-1, 6-7 (2), 6-3; 6-Saif Ali (WB) bt Rahul Gandhi (TN) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Mithun Murali (TN) bt Avinash Reddy (TN) 6-4, 6-4.

Girls: 1st Round: 1-Sandhya Kanury (TN) bt LL Kalpita Raje (Mah) 6-1, 6-3; Saranya Pattabi (TN) bt Marutha Devi (TN) 6-1, 6-2; Alice Joy (TN) bt M Sunita (AP) 6-3, 6-3; 7-Khushchehr Italia (Mah) bt Reddina Parekh (WB) 6-3, 6-3; 3-Harsimran Kaur (Chandigarh) bt M Kamini (TN) 6-2, 6-3; Samrita Sekar (TN) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) 6-0, 6-1; Priyanka Parekh (WB) bt Preeti Devendran (TN) 6-3, 6-1; Preethi Rao (TN) bt 6-Vishnu Preetham 6-3, 6-2; Sri Charanya (TN) btVandana Murali (TN) 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; 4-Nischella Reddy (AP) bt Rati Kumar (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; 8-Nandita Chandrasekar (TN) bt Ragini Vimal (WB) 7-5, 6-3; Nandini Perumal (AP) bt Parul Goswami (Del) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Vishika Chetri (Del) bt V Meenakshi (TN) 6-0, 6-3; 2-T Yamini (TN) bt Shalini Reddy (TN) 1-6, 6-1, 6-4.