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Varun upsets Vishwanath

Mysore: Wild card Varun Gopal of Karnataka played a fluent game and registered an upset 9-3 win over fifth seed and Statemate Vishwanath Sawadi to enter the second round of the under-13 boys' section of the AITA Talent Series for juniors, which began at the MTC courts here on Monday.

The top-seeded Sharan Patil, second seed Chira S. Igoor and third seed C.M. Kiran (all from Karnataka) also registered easy wins.

In the boys' under-14 singles, unseeded Suaj R. Prabodh (Karnataka) registered an upset 9-2 win over the fourth-seeded S. Raghavendra.

Important first-round results: Boys: U-16: Sharan Patil (Kar) bt N. Pruthvika (Kar) 9-2; Varun Gopal (Kar) bt Vishwanath Sawadi (Kar) 9-3; Hemanth Kumar (Kar) bt Rohit John Joseph (Kar) 9-1; Sagar Manjunath (Kar) bt A. Santhosh (Kar) 9-4; C.M. Kiran (Kar) bt Mahesh A. Bhatija (Kar) 9-3; Siddarth Reddy (TN) bt Prihesh Kishore (Kar) 9-2; S. Karan (Kar) bt Md. Shabaz (Kar) 9-4; Sai Avinash (TN) bt Aasad Jaffer (Kar) 9-3; Chirag S. Igoor (Kar) bt Venkatesh Krishnan (TN) 9-2.

U-14: Aravind Raj (TN) bt Md. Amraz (Ker) 9-6; Dhruv Balakrishnan (AP) bt Varun Vedachal 9-1; Md. Abrar (TN) bt Mahesh Bhathija (Kar) 9-1; Rohit R. Gowda (Kar) bt Prajwal Dev (Kar) 9-4; S. Karan (Kar) bt Venkatesh Krishnan (TN) 9-2; Suraj R. Prabodh (Kar) bt S. Raghavendra (Kar) 9-2; G. Preetham (Kar) bt Anirudh Puranik (Kar) 9-7; Siddarth Reddy (TN) bt Sumuka V. Karanth (Kar) 9-1; Kashyap Ashok (Kar) bt Raghav Siman (TN) 9-2.

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