Six Bihar players advance to second round

Patna, October 25, 2010: Six Bihar players moved into the second round of the boys’ under-16 section of AITA ranking tournament at Patliputra courts here.

Venkat Siddharth, Sanoj Kumar, Anish Anupam, Adeya Sharma, Vaibhav Kumar and Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (all from Bihar) entered the second round. Upmanyu Sinha (Gujarat), Ashish Kumar Ojha (AP), Ashish Sharma and Praduman Buddhiraja (both from UP) also advanced into the second round.

Results:

Boys’ under-16 singles (first round): Venkat Siddharth (Bihar) bt Sudarshan Tripathi (UP) 6-0, 6-1; Sanoj Kumar (Bihar) bt Sourabh Maurya (UP) 6-2, 6-0; Anish Anupam (Bihar) bt Azfar Anshri (UP) 6-2, 6-1; Upmanyu Sinha (Gujarat) bt Shekhar Raj Srivastava (UP) 6-4, 6-0; Adveya Sharma (Bihar) bt Ramyak Singh (Bihar) 7-5, 6-3; Ashish Sharma (UP) bt Madhav S Singhal (Gujarat) 6-4, 7-5; Ashish Kumar Ojha (AP) bt Abhinav Kapoor (UP) 6-3, 6-2; Praduman Buddhiraja (UP) bt Abhilash Nair (UP) 6-3, 6-2; Vaibhav Kumar (Bihar) bt Ashish Sharma (UP) 6-2, 6-2 and Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) bt Mandeep Kesharwani (UP) 6-1, 6-0.

Boys’ under-14 (first round): Sanoj Kumar (Bihar) bt Abhinav Kapoor (up) 6-2, 6-2; Adevya Sharma (Bihar) bt Ayush Bhartiya (Bihar) 6-2, 6-1; Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) Arham Zafar (UP) 6-0, 6-3; Ramyak Singh (Bihar) bt Faizan Ahmad (UP) 6-2, 6-3 and Anshumat Shrivastav (Bihar) Azafar Ansari (UP) 6-0, 6-0.

Photo caption: Venkat Siddarth in action during his singles match in Patna on October 25, 2010.

Photo: BLTA