By IANS
Kolkata : Seeded players moved up with some comfort in the National Grasscourt Tennis Championship here Tuesday.
In the first round of the men’s singles, second seed Ashutosh Singh of Delhi defeated Assam ‘s Kaushik Das 6-1,6-1 while fifth seed Vivek Shokeen of Delhi edged past Tamil Nadu’s Vijay Sundar Prashanth 7-5,6-2 at the South Club.
Local girl and sixth seed Ragini Vimal defeated state-mate and wild card Richa Valechha 6-2,6-0 and eight seed Shalini Sahoo of Delhi beat Karnataka’s Archana Venkatraman 6-2,6-4 in the women’s singles first round.
Results:
First round:
Men’s Singles: Rohan Gajar (Mah)(16) beat A.S. Suresh Krishna (Q)(AP)(67) 6-3,3-6,6-1; Harsh Mankad (WC)(Mah) beat Divyanshu Singh (Q)(Del)(48) 6-4,6-2; Vivek Shokeen (5)(Del)(9) beat Vijay Sundar Prashanth (TN)(31) 7-5,6-2; Kamala Kannan (TN)(34) beat Yannick Nelord (Del)(30) 7-5,3-6,7-6(7-4); Sriram Balaji (Q)(TN)(56) beat Vinod Kumar Sewa (Q)(WB)(90) 4-6,6-4,6-1; V.M. Ranjeet (TN)(18) beat Anshuman Dutta (Q)(Asm)(45) 6-1,6-3; Syed Fazaluddin (WC)(WB) beat Ajai Selvaraj (TN)(22) 7-6(7-3),6-1; Aditya Madkekar (3)(Kar)(6) beat Dhruv Kumar (LL)(WB)(61) 6-2,6-3; Rahil Makharia (Q)(AP)(56) beat Abhijeet Tiwari (Q)(Cg)(36) 6-7(3-7),6-4,6-4; Arjun Goutham (Kar)(29) beat P.C. Vignesh (AP)(19) 6-3,6-2; Ashutosh Singh (2)(Del)(4) beat Kaushik Das (Q)(Asm)(51) 6-1,6-1.
Women’s singles: Gunuganti Janaki (Q)(AP)(71) beat Vishakha Sheoran (Del)(28) 2-6,7-6(9-7),6-2; Ragini Vimal (6)(WB)(15) beat Richa Valechha (WC)(WB)(85) 6-2,6-0; Shalini Sahoo (8)(Del)(19) beat Archana Venkatraman (Kar) 6-2,6-4.
Pre-quarterfinals:
Men’s doubles: Divij Sharan (Del) & Asutosh Singh (Del)(1) beat Anshuman Dutta (Asm) & Divyanshu Singh (Del) 6-2,6-2; Saif Syed (WB) & Siddharth Verma (WB) beat Kaushik Das (Asm) & Robin Das (WB) 2-6,6-4,(10-6); Manoj Kumar Sewa (WB) & Vinod Kumar Sewa (WB) beat Saif Ali (WB) & Dhruv Kumar (WB) 6-2,6-2.
Women’s doubles: Rushmi Chakravarthi (TN) & Sonal Phadke (Mah)(1) beat Shilpi Jaiswal (Bih) & Anukriti Prasad (Del) 6-1,6-1; Treta Bhattacharyya (WB) & Rashmi Teltumbde (Mah) beat Vishakha Sheoran (Del) & Shivika Burman (WB) 2-6,6-3,(10-4); Chirashanti Rajur (Kar) & Anupama Rajur (Kar)(4) beat P. Sahan Shetty (Kar) & M.S. Shivani (Kar) 6-1,6-0; Prerna Pratap (Kar) & Rani Smita Jain (IAF) beat Jilke Nelord (Del) & P.V. Raja Rakeshwari (AP) 4-6,6-4,(10-2); Geeta Manohar (Kar) & Archana Venkatraman (Kar) beat Sweta Kumari Solanki (Del) & Shalini Sahoo (Del) 6-3,6-4; Asha Nanda Kumar (Kar) & Sagarika Phadke (Mah)(3) beat Kesika Jayapalan (TN) & Anushree Thamanna (Kar) 6-2,6-4; Arushi Sharma (Del) & Mohana Sarker (WB) beat Shahin Ansari (TN) & D. Harshini Reddy (Kar) 3-6,6-3,(10-8); Pooja Shree Venkatesh (Kar) & Janaki Gunuganti (AP) beat Parul Goswami (Del) & Ragini Vimal (WB)(2) 7-5,6-2.