Seeds advance with ease on opening day
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

MUMBAI, JANUARY 5: Second-seeded Nikhil Kanetkar and third seed Siddarth Jain (both Petroleum Sports Control Board) moved into the second round of the NSCI Senior Grand Prix All-India Prize Money Badminton Tournament on Wednesday.

Kanetkar defeated Mumbai's Amog Kulkarni 15-3, 15-6 in 25 minutes while Jain beat unseeded Anoop Shridhar of Karnataka 15-2, 15-5 in 20 minutes.

Top seed Abhinn Shyam Gupta (PSCB) got a walk-over while all the other seeds advanced without problems on the opening day of the Rs 4 lakh tournament.The women's section fared no better or worse with top four seeds getting first round byes on an uneventful day.

Results (seedings in prefix): Men's singles (1st round): 1-Abhinn Shyam Gupta (PSCB) w/o K Srinivasan (AP); Hemant Duggal (Del) bt Abhijit Nainpalli (Kar) 15-8, 15-7; 6-Abhishek Bakshi (A-I) bt Madhur Kali (Del) 15-3, 15-3; Thomas Kurien (Rly) bt Rutupurna Kulkarni (Mah) 15-8, 11-15, 17-14; Ajit Wijetilek (PSCB) bt Tarun Chauhan (Del) 15-11, 15-3; P Gehlawat (Del) btSanket Shetty (Mah) 15-7, 13-15, 15-9; Sachin Ratti (Rly) bt Jason Xavier (Ker) 8-15, 15-7, 15-3; Anuj Gupta (Guj) bt Guruprasad (Kar) 15-7, 15-7; Devinder Dhillon (Del) bt Vivek Gautam (Mah) 15-6, 2-15, 15-10; Chetan Anand (AI) bt S Thomas (Ker) 15-9, 15-13; Sidharth Jain (PSCB) bt Anoop Shridhar (Kar) 15-2, 15-10; Nikhil Kanitkar (PSCB) bt Amog Kulkarni (Mah) 15-3, 15-6; Amrish Shinde (Rly) bt JBS Vidhyadhar (Rly) 15-13, 15-9; KA Anish (Ker) bt Arvind Bhat (Kar) 15-10, 15-11; Srikant Bakshi (Rly) bt Joy T Anthony (Ker) 15-8, 15-12
Doubles (1st round): Vincent Lobo/Jaseel P Ismail bt Yogesh Padukone/Vivek Gautam 15-5, 15-6; Bhushan Akut/Srikant Bakshi bt Thomas Kurien/Anuj Gupta 15-10, 15-3
Women's singles (1st round): Krupa Telang (Mah) w/o Gayatri M (Del); Divya Ramesh (Kar) bt Phalkan Nagori (Guj) 11-0, 11-3; Nupura Bhide (Mah) bt Pooja Patil (Kar) 11-5, 11-1; Leena Pednekar (Goa) bt Tanmay Nandi (A-I) 7-11, 11-4, 11-1; G Jwala (AP) bt Aditi Biswas (Kar) 11-5, 11-2; Neha Gangolli (Mah)bt Ruchi Kapil (Del) 11-3, 11-3; Meenakshi Wagh (Mah) bt Thanuja Begum (Ker) 3-11, 11-8, 11-2; Parul Priyadarshini (Rly) bt Shruti Kurien (AP) 11-7, 11-2

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