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Fancied players had an easy first round outing in the rain-marred FSA AITA CS& U-18 Championship that began at the Fortune Sports Academy courts here on Monday. In some of the completed matches, top seed Kavyansh Srivastava of Uttar Pradesh eased past Eashwar SP of the host state 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the pre-quarterfinals in the Boys category. Joining him was second seed Aditya Anirudh of Pondicherry who almost blanked Himanshu Shekar of Karnataka 6-2, 6-0.

In the Girls’ category, seventh seed Hridyeshi Pai of Karnataka breezed past Andhra Pradesh’s Devaki Santosh Kumar 6-1, 6-0 and was the only seed to complete her first round match.

Results (1^st Round) (Pre-fix denotes seeds, all from Karnataka unless mentioned in brackets)

Boys U-18 Singles (Completed matches)

1-Kavyansh Srivastava (UP) bt Eashwar SP 6-2, 6-3; Sehaj Singh Pawar bt Gowtham Reddy (AP) 6-1, 6-0; 8-Akshay Prasad bt Raghu Vijay Sumukh 6-0, 6-1; 6-Vaibhav Krishna Sriram bt Anav Shrish 6-1, 6-0; 3-Sushanka Sridhar bt Yash Panchaxari 6-4, 6-2; Sadu Revanth (AP) W/o Vishnu Mohan; Charan Vardham bt Leela Bollini 6-0, 6-1; Shivshankar (TS) bt Pranith Gogineni 6-2, 6-1; Aman Rao bt Yashas Gowda 6-0, 6-1; Arihant Kaul bt Rishab Ramanan 6-0, 6-1; 2-Aditya Anirudh (PY) bt Himanshu Shekar 6-2, 6-0.

Girls U-18 Singles (Completed matches)

Disha Santosh bt Binitha Rakesh 6-3, 6-3; Disha Behera bt Archisha Ghosh 6-4, 6-0; Yash Ajit Desai (MH) bt Janvi Sharma (MH) 6-1, 6-1; Dharani Dhanyata Sreenivasa bt Purvi Bhadravati 6-2, 6-0; 7-Hridyeshi Pai bt Devaki Santosh Kumar (AP) 6-1, 6-0.