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Bawa dethroned

Principal Correspondent

KOLKATA: Defending champion and fifth seeded Haadin Bawa of India was shown the door by Kai Wen Lai of Chinese Taipei in the boys' singles first round of the ONGC-ITF juniors here at DKS Sports complex on Monday.

Bawa looked off-colour from the beginning making it easier for his Chinese Taipei opponent to wrap up the match in just 40 minutes in straight sets.

The only Indian tasting success was unseeded Ritwik Anand who beat Shukrat Gizatulin of Uzbekistan. The rest of the Indians failed to put up a fight and exited in the first round.

In the girls' singles, top seed Napatsakorn Sankaew of Thailand cleaned up lucky loser Sumeera Kamil of India without losing a game.

Unseeded Dhruti Venugopal, who beat Darya Chernetsova of Belarus, joined the sixth-seeded Ratnika Batra and Bhuvna Kalwa to make it three Indians moving into the next round.

Ratnika and Bhuvna beat compatriots Amrita Mukherjee and Spurthi Shivalingaiah in their respective first round matches.

The results (all Indians unless specified) (1st round): Boys: Chi Shan Jao (Tpe) bt Shaikh Abdullah 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Ritwik Anand bt Shukrat Gizatulin (Uzb) 7-5, 6-2; Kai Wen Lai (Tpe) bt Haadin Bawa 6-3, 6-2; Robby Ridout (GBR) bt Vishwesh Sinha 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Abduvoris Saitmukhamedov (Uzb) bt Shukrit Guha 6-1, 6-1.

Temor Ismailov (Uzb) bt Rishav Mehra 6-0, 6-1; Joshua Page (GBR) bt Rohan Bhatia 7-6(7), 6-4; Chih Jen Ho (Tpe) bt Tarun Nath Surat 6-3, 6-0; Joshua Ward Hibbert (GBR) bt Karan Salwan 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-1; Qin Tu (Chn) bt Rajat Maheshwari 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Wen Chun Liang (Tpe) bt Rakshit Rishi 6-3, 6-4.

Girls: Napatsakorn Sankaew (Tha) bt Sumeera Kamil 6-0, 6-0; Fang Chi Tsao (Tpe) bt Shweta Rana 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Bhuvna Kalwa bt Spurthi Shivalingaiah 7-5, 6-3; Aldila Sutjiadi (Ina) bt Srijita Ghosh 6-1, 6-0; Dora Vajdic (Cro) bt Namita Bal 6-2, 6-0.

Dhruti Venugopal bt Darya Chernetsova (Blr) 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Ratnika Batra bt Amrita Mukherjee 6-1, 6-2; Carol Augustine Beneto (Esp) bt Megha Sehrawat 6-1, 6-4; Basak Eraydin (Tur) bt Rutuja Bhosale 7-5, 6-3.

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