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It was a disastrous day for the seeded players in the opening round of the Sportle AITA U-18 CS-7 National ranking Championship that got underway at the Topspin Tennis Academy here on Monday with the top seeds both in the boys and girls category tumbling out of the competition.

Host state’s No.1 Ninaad Ravi went down to qualifier Anirudh Aditya of Tamil Nadu 2-6, 2-6 in the Boys U-18 category while qualifier Soumya Ronde accounted for the top seed Meenakshi L 6-1, 6-1 in the Girls U-18 to advance to the pre-quarterfinals. Three more seeds in both the boys and girls category also bit the dust.

Results (1^st Round) (Seedings in pre-fix)

Boys U-18 Singles

Q-Anirudh Aditya bt 1-Ninaad Ravi 6-2, 6-2; Vivaan Gupta bt Parikshat Singh Dalpatia 6-0, 6-1; Akarsh V Goankar bt Saksham H Attray 6-3, 6-2; 7-Manan Nath bt Arya Subhash 6-4, 6-1; 4-Skanda Prasanna Rao bt Kunsh M Gowda 6-3, 6-3; Tarun Vetrevelan bt Mandeep Reddy Kudumala 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; Rishivandan bt Tarun Karwar 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Shantanu Srikumar Nambiar bt 6-Rajeshwar Reddy T 6-2, 6-4; Adith Amarnath bt 5-Nithish LN Balaji 6-2, 6-1; Krish Ajay Tyagi bt Sushank BS 6-7, 6-4, 6-3; Gowin Sehwag bt Rakshak Tarun V 6-1, 2-6, 6-2; 3-Karthik S Kavin bt Jaishnu 2-6, 6-0, 6-4; Bhuvan Prakash bt 8-Neil Pillai 7-6, 6-4; Rethin Pranav bt Priyansh Solanki 6-1, 6-0; Anoop Keshavmurthy bt Vijay Raju Gangapatnam 6-2, 6-0; 2-Arjun Premkumar bt Arjan Gupta 6-3, 6-4

Girls U-18 Singles

Q-Soumya Ronde bt 1-Meenakshi L 6-1, 6-1; Siri Patil bt Zynah Amber Salar 6-3, 6-3; Sonika Jadeesh bt 8-Monisha Devarakonda 6-1, 6-1; Amodini Vijay Naik bt Samriddhi Pokarna 6-2, 6-1; Kaasvi Bhatia bt Inchara Hitemat 7-6, 6-1; 6-Sanjana Mula bt Sri Sunanda Sampath 6-3, 1-6, 6-2; Athmika Chaitanya Sreenivas bt Sreenidhi Reddy Amireddy 6-3, 6-3; LL-Nidhi B Sreenivas bt 3-Rishita Tarun Agarwal 6-0, 6-0; Q-Bharathiyana Babu Reddy bt 7-Subhrata Aubranjali 6-2, 6-2