Anshumat races into second round

Anshumat Srivastav

Patna, February 4, 2013: Patna boy Anshumat Srivastav was off to a flying start winning his first round matches of the boys U-18 and U-16 sections with great elan and comfort  in the All India Tennis Association (AITA) Talent Series Fourth Leg Tournament at the Patliputra Colony courts here on Monday.

Anshumat thrashed another Bihar boy Shadwal Sufi 6-0, 6-0 in the U-18 singles while in the U-16 singles, he beat Sourabh Singh of Uttar Pradesh 6-2, 6-3.

Results: Boys’ U-18 singles (first round): Asher John Kandthil (UP) bt Akshat Kumar (UP) 6-0, 6-0, Ankit Anand (Bihar) bt Nilay Mishra (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1, Ravinder Singh (Punjab) bt Abhilash Nair (UP) 6-1, 6-1, Zain Zafar (Bihar) bt Siddhant Raj (Bihar) 6-2, 6-1, Chirag Dahiya (Haryana) bt Sharayat Parashar (Bihar) 6-1, 6-1, Ramyak Singh (Bihar) bt Siddhant Mahala (Rajasthan) 6-2, 6-2, Jagtar Singh (Punjab) bt Sourabh Singh (UP) 6-0, 6-0, Adarsh Anand (Bihar) bt Karan Singh (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1, Ankit Rao (Haryana) bt Adveya  Sharma (Bihar) 6-1, 6-0, Anshumat Srivastav (Bihar) bt Shadwal Sufi (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0, Siddharth Bedekar (Delhi) bt Samit Kesari (UP) 6-0, 6-2.

Boys’ U-16 singles (first round): Prakhar Raj (Bihar) bt Purab Arora (Bihar) 6-3, 6-4, Asher John Kandthil (UP) bt Harshal Rukhaiyar (Maharashtra) 6-2, 6-2, Chirag Dahiya (Haryana) bt Ankit Anand (Bihar) 6-1, 6-1, Roshan Kumar (Bihar) bt Swapnil Sinha (Bihar) 6-3, 6-2, Anshumat Srivastav (Bihar) bt Sourabh Singh (UP) 6-2, 6-3, Adarsh Choudhary (UP) bt Ramyak Singh (Bihar) 6-3, 6-2, Samit Kesari (UP) bt Siddhant Raj (Bihar) 6-1, 6-1, Vishal Vivek (Bihar) bt Syed Shahbaaz Ahmed (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0, Siddharth Bedekar (Delhi) bt Nilay Mishra (Bihar) 6-3, 6-2, Zain Zafar (Bihar) bt Siddhant Mahala (Raj) 6-1, 6-3, Shadwal Sufi (Bihar) bt Shivam Khandelwal (Bihar) 6-1, 6-2.

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