Seeded players continued their march in the lower age groups as well. In the boys under-17, all the top seeds, Junaid Nathani, Vishal Kapoor and Neerav Tomar advanced into the round of eight. Vishal dropped a game to Gaurav Nandarjog before advancing. Having won the first 9-6, Vishal dropped the second 1-9, before recovering to win the third and fourth 9-7 and 9-1. Vishal, a former under-14 National champion now takes on Siddharth Suchde.

There were close matches in the under-15 category too, with Rishabh Singhvi dropping the first twogames before recovering to beat Yogin Thakur in five.

Mihir Sheth, seeded No. 1 in the under-15 and third in under-17 has entered the quarter-finals of both.

RESULTS (SEEDINGS IN PREFIX)

Boys under-19: 3-Parth Doshi bt Mahesh Verma 9-2, 9-0, 9-2.

Under-17: 5-Mihir Sheth bt Jaikaran Juneja 9-6, 9-1, 8-10, 9-2; 3-Vishal Kapoor bt Gaurav Nandarjog 9-6, 1-9, 9-7, 9-1; Auloke Mathur bt Anurag Gill 9-3, 9-0, 9-3; 1-Junaid Nathani bt Yogin Thakur 9-4, 10-9, 9-2; Siddharth Suchde bt Surpreet Singh 9-1, 9-1, 9-0; Sahil Vora bt Aditya Maonjrekar 9-4, 9-1, 9-2; 4-Neerav Tomar bt Sanjay Pawar 9-1, 9-6, 9-5.

Under-15: Saurav Goshal bt Ritesh Sharma 9-0, 9-4, 9-2; Rushabh Singhiv bt Yogin Thakur 6-9, 9-10, 9-5, 9-4, 9-4; Karanpal Sethi bt Rahil Shah 9-4, 9-2, 9-2; 3-Sahil Vora bt S Samantare 9-1, 9-4, 9-3; 1-Mihir Sheth bt Varun Bhagat 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Anurag Gill bt Satbir Singh 9-3, 5-9, 9-4, 9-5; 2-Siddharth Suchde bt Vikas Jhangra 9-0, 9-5, 9-3.

Under-13: Naishad Lalwani bt Natasha Lall 5-9, 9-3, 9-4,9-2; S Jhangra bt Pratik Manjrekar 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; N Lall bt Y Yadav 9-1, 9-7, 9-6; Jatin Gurnani bt V Malhotra 9-6, 9-7, 7-9, 3-9, 9-4; 1-Gautam Kalani bt Shawn Khambatta 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.