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Seeded players fall by the wayside

Sports Reporter

KOLKATA: The first round of the Central Excise Open tennis tournament accounted for the exit of three seeds in the men's section as unseeded players proved their mettle here on Monday.

Unseeded local boy Manoj Kumar Sewa ousted the seventh-seeded Jitin Bishnoi of Haryana in straight sets. Another local boy, Farid Alam — who moved into the main round as a qualifier — defeated sixth-seeded Honey Rana from Delhi.

Wild card entrant Partha Sarathi Bhattacharya from Delhi made short work of eighth-seeded Rishi Sharma from Uttar Pradesh by comfortably winning 6-1 6-2.

Second-seeded Kamala Kannan of Tamil Nadu, fourth-seeded Gursharan Singh of Punjab and fifth-seeded Saurav Sukul of West Bengal reached the pre-quarterfinals winning their matches with ease.

However, there was no major upset in the women's section. Most of the seeds enjoyed byes in the first round as there were not enough entries. The only seed playing a to play, eighth-seeded J.B. Shashirekha of Karnataka, blanked unseeded Deepti Gupta of Tamil Nadu 6-0, 6-0.

The results: Men's singles (1st round): Jagdish Tanwar (Raj) bt Dhrub Kumar (Ben) 6-3, 6-1; Anshuman Dutta (Asm) bt Ankit Patel (Chg) 6-2, 6-4; Manoj Kumar Sewa (Ben) bt Jitin Bishnoi (Har) 6-2, 7-6(5); Gursharan Singh (Pun) bt Ajay Kumar Singh (Ben) 6-3, 6-4; Divyanshu Singh (Del) bt Mahendra Varman (T.N.) 7-6(0), 6-2; Robin Das (Ben) bt Vijay Siwach (Goa) 6-2, 6-2; Farid Alam (Ben) bt Honey Rana (Del) 6-4, 7-6(3); Saurav Sukul (Ben) bt Kaushik Das (Asm) 6-3, 6-3; Jitender Mehlda (Del) bt Vikram Chitkara (Mah) 3-6, 7-5, 6-2; Partha Sarathi Bhattacharya (Del) bt Rishi Sharma (U.P.) 6-1, 6-2; Nikunj Siwach (Goa) bt Hazary Javed (Pun) 6-1, 6-1; Kamala Kannan (T.N.) bt Parthasarathi Bharath Srinivasan (T.N.) 6-3, 6-1.

Women's singles (1st round): Shivika Burman (Ben) bt Megha Panuganti (A.P.) 6-2, 6-0; Richa Valechha (Ben) bt Sharvani Durvasula (A.P.) 6-0, 6-0; Devanshi Rajgharia (Ben) bt D. Harshini Reddy (Kar) 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; J.B. Adithi (Kar) bt Ekta Shapuri (U.P.) 6-2, 6-4; J.B. Shashirekha (Kar) bt Deepti Gupta (T.N.) 6-0, 6-0; Soma Banerjee (Ben) bt Omlata Rai (U.P.) 6-2, 6-2; Raadhae Svarupa (T.N.) bt J. Doondipriya (A.P.) 6-2, 6-2; Jikle Nelord (Del) bt Rachna Sharma (Chg) 6-0, 6-1; Rashmi Somani (Ben) bt Neetu Batra (Del) 6-2, 6-1.

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