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Host Orissa`s Shakti Ray and Adwithya Patnaik posted first round wins as seeded players easily advanced to the second round of the AITA under-16 Championship Series Tennis Tournament at Modern Public School and Officers Club courts in Balasore today.
The tournament, which is being organised by Balasore Tennis Association (BTA), was inaugurated by Orissa Tennis Association (OTA) secretary Madhusudan Padhi.
Results (1st round): Boys singles: Niranjan R Ram (TN) bt Kotwal Sangram (Mah) 6-0, 6-0: Shakti Ray (Ori) bt Udhab Gupta (WB) 6-2, 6-2: Sintu Sharma (Ori) bt Kavish Bagaria (Ori) 6-2, 6-0: V Sivakumar (AP) bt Jadish Passary (Ori) 6-0, 6-0: C Sisir (AP) bt MMK Ramineni (AP) 6-1, 6-4: Nevatia Hriday (AP) bt Purushottam Dash (Ori) 6-0, 6-2: Harsh Gurnani (WB) bt Amritesh Gupta (Ori) 6-0, 6-1: Pradeep Deswal (AP) bt Sumit Patel (Ori) 6-0,6-2, S Siddharth Reddy (TN) bt Rahul Somani (AP) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4: Salim Shaharya (Jha) bt Nikunj Agarwal (Ori) 6-0, 6-2: Richie Agarwal (WB) bt Abhishek Rath (Ori) 6-3, 6-0: Shukrit Guha (WB) bt Shreyas Das (Ori) 6-1, 6-1: Venkatesh Prasad (AP) bt Sattwik Sinha Ray (WB) 6-4, 6-2: Adwitya Pattnaik (Ori) bt Nikunj Poddar (WB) 6-3, 7-6 (8-6): Bhupal Raju (AP) bt Ashis Sahu (Ori) 6-1, 6-0: Raj Vishnu (TN) bt K Sai Sandeep (AP) 6-1, 6-0.
Girls singles: Angna Mukherji (WB) bt Avilipsa Rath (Ori) 6-1, 6-0.
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