AITAtalent series: Five Bihar players in second round

Patna, May 18, 2009
Five Bihar players sailed into the second round of the boys’ under-16 singles in the All India Tennis Association (AITA) talent series tournament at the Patliputra tennis courts here on Monday.

In the girls under-18 singles Monalisa Chakraborty of Jharkhand entered the quarter-finals.

Results:
Boys U-16 singles (first round)
Ankesh Anand (Bihar) beat Shobhit Raj (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0; Shivam Shukla (UP) beat Ahmad Malick (UP) 6-1, 6-4; Anish Anupam (Bihar) beat A Prokhar (Bihar) 6-1; 6-0; Venkat Siddharth (Bihar) beat Qasim Masumi (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1; Abhilash Nair (UP) beat Nihal Singh (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1; Amar Kumar (Bihar) beat Shivesh Tripathi (UP) 6-0, 6-2; Anurag Sharma (Rajasthan) beat Salman Sajjad (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1; Shashank Asharma (Delhi) beat Ayush Bhartia (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0; Praduman Buddhi Raja (UP) beat Yash Raj Sharan (Bihar) 6-1, 6-2.

Boys’ under-18 (first round)
Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) beat Aditya V Bhardwaj (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1; Arsh Prakhar (Bihar) beat Ahmad Malick (UP) 6-2, 6-4; Aman Kumar (Bihar) beat Anish Anupam (Bihar) 6-1, 6-0; Keshav Kishan (Maharashtra) beat Shivam Shukla (UP) 6-4, 6-2; Rohit Chaudhary (Delhi) beat Vaibhav Kumar (Bihar) 6-4, 6-2; Ishan K Ravi (Bihar) beat Qasim Masumi (Bihar) 6-0, 6-2; Anurag Sharma (Rajasthan) beat Om Prakash (Bihar) 6-2, 6-0; Arman Banerjee (WB) beat B Srivastav (UP) 6-3, 6-3; Harsh Shivash (TN) beat Abhilash Ranjan (Bihar) 6-1, 6-1 and Shantanu Soumya (Bihar) beat Adarsh Prakhar (Bihar) 7-6 (1), 6-3.