Kolkata, May 26 (UNI) Seventh seed Tarun Pathare (Maharashta) was defeated by Aayush Poddar (Kolkata) in two short sets 5-3,5-4(7-5) in the first round of the Boys' Singles Under-12 DKS-AITA Talent Series that began at DKS Sports Complex today.
The rest of the seeds sailed through to the pre-quarter finals stage before the rain interrupted today's proceedings.
Results: Boys Singles Under 12 First Round : Rahul Somani (1)(AP)(12) beat Nishant Kumar (Bih)(221) 4-1,4-0, C Tarun Aniruddh (AP)(117) beat Ryan Sen (LL)(WB) 4-2,4-2, Sajid Ur Rehman (AP)(117) beat Rishabh Shah (Q)(WB)(187) 4-2,5-3, Richie Agarwal (5)(Mah)(34) beat Akash Singha (Q)(WB)(316) 4-1,4-1, Md. Kamran Ali (3)(WB)(28) beat Debjit Chakraborty (Q)(WB)(231) 4-2,4-1, Ranjan Thakur (Jha)(118) beat Shanti Swarup Behera (WC)(Ori)(316) 4-1,4-1, Md.Shaharyar Salim (Jha)(67) beat Sumant Lenka (Q)(WB)(302) 4-2,5-3, Adhwitya Pattnaik (8)(Ori)(62) beat Tenzing Bhutia (Q)(WB) 4-1,4-0, Shakti Ray (Q)(6)((Ori)(46) beat Raghav Nevatia (WB) 4-2,4-0, Anubhav Tirath Lal (WB)(105) beat Anshumat Shrivastava (Bih)(145) 4-0,4-1, Sagar Jain (WB)(238) beat Adarsh Anand (Bih)(69) 4-2,0-4,4-2, Maka Krishna Chaitanya (4)(AP)(33) beat Snehil Aryan (Bih)(221) 4-0,4-0, Aayush Poddar (WB)(168) beat Tarun Pathare (7)(Mah)(47) 5-3,5-4(7-5), Yuvraj Bains (Q)(WB)((316) beat Abhinav Macedo (AP)(105) 2-4,4-1,4-0, Manraj Singh Zandu (Jha)(109) beat Jaffer Javed (WB) 4-0,4-1, Ishaque Eqbal (2)(WB)(17) beat Sanil Jagtiani (WN)(187) 4-2,4-0.
The tournament was inaugurated by Doug Mac Curdy, former Head of ITF Tennis Development Programme and now Head of USTA Tennis Development Programme.
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