Third leg of AITA talent series begins

Patna, June 27, 2011: The third leg of AITA talent series began at the Patliputra Colony courts here. In the first round, Ravi Tomar (Uttarakhand), Parth Agarwal (Delhi), Armaan Banerjee (Uttar Pradesh) and Nishat Iqbal (West Bengal) won their respective matches to enter the second round of the boys’ under-18 singles.

Results: Boys’ under-18 singles (first round): Ravi Tomar bt Suraj Rawat (UP) 6-1, 6-2; Parth Agarwal bt Nilay Mishra (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1; Armaan Banerjee bt Ashish Sharma (UP) 6-1, 6-0; Nishat Iqbal bt Ankesh Anand (Bihar) 6-2, 6-3.

Boys’ under-16 singles (first round): Vishal Vivek Kumar (Bihar) bt Vikas Pal (UP) 6-4, 7-6; Adarsh Anand bt Ravi Tomar 6-2, 6-1; Nilay Mishra bt Tejas Advait (Delhi) 6-4, 7-5; Sanoj Kumar (Bihar) bt Amartya Rai (UP) 6-4, 6-3; Shree Krishna (Bihar) bt Yash Raj Sharan (Bihar) 6-2, 6-3; Abhilash Nair (UP) bt Syed Shahbeaaz Ahmed (Bihar) 6-1, 6-0; Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) bt Basu Jaiswal (UP) 6-2, 6-3 and Sumit Kumar (UP) bt Suraj Rawat (UP) 6-2, 6-3.