CHART trainee Ajay starts with win

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 15 

Chandigarh Academy for Rural Tennis (CHART) trainee Ajay Singh blanked Mitesh Verma 9-0 in the boys’ U-16 first round match on the opening day of The Tribune CLTA-AITA Championship Series (CS-7) and State Championship here today.

The week-long tournament carries a prize purse of Rs 3 lakh. Sukhpreet Jhoje, meanwhile, overcame Nishank Thakur 9-4, while Sehaj Punj beat Jayant Bansal 9-6. Sarabjot Singh got the better of Sarang in a closely contested match, winning 9-7. Mahismat Kumar drubbed Rashbeg 9-6. 

In the men’s singles qualifying round, Calving Golmei humbled Punjab’s Ashpreet Singh 9-0, while Sabrang Sandal blanked Surjit Singh 9-0. Abhishek Sardana beat Stalin Nayak 9-2. 

Haryana’s Sunit Kaushik overcame Parmeet Singh Deol 9-6. Another CHART trainee Sukhpreet Jhoje defeated Nishank Thakut 9-4.  Kunal Patiyal, Sehaj Punj, Aryan Chatwal, Sarabjot Singh and Mahismat Kumar won their respective opening round matches to move to the next round of the championship. 

Results 

Men (qualfying round)

Kaushik Dutt Sunil bt Parmeet Singh Deol 9-6, Naesar V Jewoor bt Abdul Amaan 9-0, Abhay Dixit bt Khuswinder Pal Singh 9-5, Jaskaran Grewal bt Harinder Singh 9-3, Abhimanyu Rozra bt Bharat Sharma 9-4, Amit Beniwal bt Suraj Kumar 9-4, Tushar Sharma bt Dikshit Parashar 9-0, Ankush Mishra bt Nikhil Verma 9-5, Davinder Rana bt Karthik Singh Panwar 9-8(7), Bharat Bhardwaj bt Uddit Mann 9-3, Sumit Kumar bt Ashish Kumar 9-6, Alok Aradhya bt Devansh Malik 9-1, Harshit Bansal bt Aniket Yadav 9-8(2), Chiraag Bajwa bt Harsimranjeet Singh 9-2, Savneet Singh Bajwa bt Sanisth Juneja 9-0, Mayank Valecha bt Abhimanyu Dabas 9-7, Deepinder Singh Bains bt Kabir Manrai 9-3, Abhishek Sardana bt Stalin Nayak 9-2, Rubal Shandilya bt Raghav Talwar 9-1, Asaudha Gautam bt Sanchit Thakur 9-3, Anurag Kumar bt Karan Singh Dhillon 9-2, Chirag Dahiya bt Rehan Ahmed 9-0, Mohak Bajaj bt Shane Biddaiah 9-3, Parav Dev Garg bt Gagandeep Singh 9-1, Rohit Sai Kumar bt Karthik MS 9-3, Chinmay Bakshi bt Animesh Sharma 9-1, Yash Vardhan Singh bt Manjot Singh 9-6, Sumit Pal Singh bt Sarvesh Maria 9-6, Sabrang Sandal bt Surjit Singh 9-0, Gurkirat Singh bt Raghavendra 9-6, Shourya Singh bt Navdeep Mangal 9-3, Sanil Jagtiani bt Chandan Agnihotri 9-1, Hemant Kumar bt Deepak Singh 9-6, Sajender Singh bt Sanyam Sachdeva 9-4, Clavin N Golmei bt Ishpreet Singh 9-0, Neeraj Yashpaul bt Zaib Mohd 9-0, Gunjan Kumar Chaudhary bt Anish Garg 9-3, Bikramjeet S Chawla bt Prashant Sawant 9-1.