NEW DELHI, December 22

Qualifier Honey Rana (Delhi) emulated Pooja Sree Venkatesh (Karnataka) and Neha Rana (Delhi) in taking out seeded player in the opening round of the under-16 draw at the DSCL Open National tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex on Monday.

On a chilly day when most would have preferred staying indoors, it was heart-warming to see India¡¦s emerging talent parade its skills. Honey Rana , the lanky Delhi lad who is ranked 161 on the AITA charts, shocked third seeded Nitish Raj (Uttar Pradesh) by dropping just one game. Pooja Sree , ranked No. 39 on the AITA under-16 list but seeded to enter the final of the under-14 draw, stunned third-seeded Shilpi Jaiswal (Bihar) 6-2, 7-6 (3) while No. 38 ranked Neha surprised the seventh seed Micah Muhury (Jharkand) 7-5, 6-2. Former India Davis Cupper Ramesh Krishnan's daughter, Gayatri semifinal in the under-14 draw last year caught the eye with her nimble footwork during her three-set win over Niroshita Madanala. She made up for her lack of height with sharp anticipation to get into position early enough and make her Andhra Pradesh rival run around a fair bit.

In another match, qualifier Unnati Purushotham blanked wild card Shristi Jain 6-0, 6-0. Unnati impressed with her penchant to approach the net  an unsual sight on a day when most girls embraced the baseline with almost religious fervrour. Wild card entrant Radhika Malik (Delhi) scored a facile win over lucky loser Mokshada Jain (Bengal).

In the 64-player boys under-14 competition, Vaibhav Iyengar emerged the only lucky loser from among nine, who got though to the main draw, to score a win in the opening round when he defeated Mohammed Omar Farooq (Andhra Pradesh) 6-1, 7-6 (6). Six of the eight qualifiers also went through to the second round.

The results (first round): Boys under-16 singles:

• 1 Rohan Gide (Maharashtra) beat Vidhan Vyas (Delhi) 6-0, 6-0;
• Krishna Karsolia (Uttar Pradesh) beat Kush Jugga (Delhi) 7-6 (3), 6-0;
• q Vijayant Malik (Chandigarh) beat Akash Wagh 6-0, retd;
• 5 Peter Agnel Gladwin (Maharashtra) beat Rahul Belwal (Delhi) 6-0, 6-0;
• 4 GP Pranjesh (Tamil Nadu) beat Shaolin Chandam (Delhi) 6-1, 6-1;
• q Akshay Kohli (Delhi) beat Debendra Das (Maharashtra) 6-2, 6-4;
• Uday Karan Punia (Chandigarh) beat Ankit Sachdeva (Delhi) 6-2, 6-3;
• Satyam Patel (Gujarat) beat Anmol Arora (Rajasthan) 6-2, 2-6, 6-4;
• Allan Alex Gomes (Gujarat) beat 7 Harika Gursher Sinh (Chandigarh) 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3);
• Kinshuk Sharma (Chandigarh) beat V Vignesh (Tamil Nadu) 6-3, 2-6, 6-2;
• Suyash Sharma (Madhya Pradesh) beat Soumit Dey (Bengal) 6-4, 6-1;
• q Honey Rana (Delhi) beat 3 Nitish Raj (Uttar Pradesh) 6-1, 6-0;
• 8 Paras Thakur (Chandigarh) beat PC Vignesh (Andhra Pradesh) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5;
• q Navinder Pal Singh (Chandigarh) beat Rahul Jain (Delhi) 7-5, 1-6, 6-3;
• Ankit Patel (Chattisgarh) beat Ashwini Prakash (Uttar Pradesh) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4;
• 2 M Sai Sanketh (Andhra Pradesh) beat Dharamveen Vishwakarma (Bengal) 6-0,6-2 .

Girls under-16 singles:

• 1 Parija Maloo (Maharashtra) beat Jhilke Nelord (Delhi) 7-6 (3), 6-3;
• Karina Ahuja (Bengal) beat q Vaidehi Patil (Maharashtra) 6-0, 6-1;
• Gayatri Krishnan (Tamil Nadu) beat Niroshita Madanala (Andhra Pradesh) 6-3, 6-7, 6-3;
• 6 Varsha Dutta (Assam) beat Prerna Mythry (Andhra Pradesh) 6-2, 6-4;
• Pooja Sree Venkatesh (Karnataka) beat 3 Shilpi Jaiswal (Bihar) 6-2, 7-6 (3);
• q G Janaki Rao (Andhra Pradesh) beat q Shahin Ansari (Tamil Nadu) 6-4, 6-2;
• q Sweta Kumari (Delhi) beat Monica Menon (Delhi) 6-3, 6-4;
• 5 Shivika Burman (Bengal) beat Anahita Jagtiani (Gujarat) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4;
• 8 Sushruta Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) beat Swati Singh (Delhi) 6-1, 6-0;
• Radhika Malik (Delhi) beat Mokshada Jain (Bengal) 6-0, 6-1;
• Nikunj Kamal (Delhi) beat Rashi Kakkar (Delhi) 6-2, 6-1;
• 4 Daksha Mulay (Maharashtra) beat Vishaka Sheoran (Delhi) 6-3, 4-6, 6-0;
• Neha Rana (Delhi) beat 7 Micah Muhury (Jharkhand) 7-5, 6-2;
• q Amrita Seth (Delhi) beat q Garima Vatwani (Delhi) 7-6 (4), 6-1;
• q Unnati Purushotham (Andhra Pradesh) beat Shristi Jain (Delhi) 6-0, 6-0;
• 2 Anukriti Prasad (Delhi) beat Sanjana Kapoor (Delhi) 6-4, 6-4.

Boys under-14 singles:

• 1 Kinshuk Sharma (Chandigarh) beat  Shahbaz Khan 6-1, 6-1;
• Luv Sodha (Maharashtra) beat  Shiva Sangwan (Chandigarh) 6-1, 6-2;
• q Uday Karan Punia (Chandigarh) beat  Utkarsh Patel (Gujarat) 6-1, 6-3;
• Vaibhav Iyengar (Tamil Nadu) beat  Mohammed Omar Farooq (Andhra Pradesh) 6-1, 7-6 (6);
• 10 Vijayant Mallik (Chandigarh) beat  Lakshit Sood (Uttar Pradesh) 6-0, 6-4;
• q Dody Siregar (Delhi) beat  Sathi Ch Reddy (Tamil Nadu) 6-1, 6-1;
• Shaoulin Chandam (Delhi) beat  Shikar Kapur 6-2, 6-1;
• 5 Jairaj Desai (Maharashtra) beat  Dharanveen Vishwakarma (Bengal) 6-4, 6-4;
• 3 V Vignesh (Tamil Nadu) beat  Ajay Kumar (Delhi) 6-1, 6-0;
• Dhruv Gurwara (Delhi) beat  Ashwin Nambi (Tamil Nadu) 6-2, 6-1;
• q Dhruv Gupta (Delhi) beat   Nikhil Kumar Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) 7-5, 6-3;
• 16 Navinder Pal Singh (Punjab) beat  Karan Uday Singh (Delhi) 6-3, 6-4;
• 12 N Sriram Balaji (Tamul Nadu) beat  Akash Wagh (Maharashtra) 6-2, 3-6, 7-5;
• Sitaram Sudanwa (Tamil Nadu) beat  Prosonjit Paul (Jharkand) 6-2, 6-2;
• Ankit Sachdeva (Delhi) beat  Venkat Konarao (Andhra Pradesh) 6-2, 6-1;
• 6 Krishna Karsolia (Uttar Pradesh) beat  Chandril Sood (Uttar Pradesh) 6-0, 6-0;
• 7 Debendra Das (Bengal) beat  Varun Gunaseelan (Tamil Nadu) 7-5, 6-1;
• Vijay Kamineni (Andhra Pradesh) beat   Daniel Raj (Andhra Pradesh) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2;
• Ranjan Prasad (Bengal) beat  Arun Selwan (Andhra Pradesh) 6-0, 6-0;
• 9 Akshay Kohli (Delhi) beat q Satyam Patel (Gujarat) 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2;
• Saharsh Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) beat  Deb Bibaswan 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (5);
• Krishna AS Suresh (Andhra Pradesh beat  Deepinder Singh (Chandigarh) 6-2, 6-0;
• Suman Kumar Debnath (Assam) beat Rishi Rajpal 6-3, 6-1;
• 4 GP Pranjesh (Tamil Nadu) beat  Prateek Patel (Delhi) 6-0, 6-0;
• 8 Yuki Bhambri (Delhi) beat  V Sudarshan(Tamil Nadu) 6-3, 6-3;
• Abhijeet Tiwari (Chattisagarh) beat q Mandeep Yadav (Chandigarh) 6-0, 6-4;
• q Dandu Bhara Raju (Andhra Pradesh) beat  Anirban Hazarika (Assam) 7-4, 7-5;
• 11 Sushant Nambiar (Andhra Pradesh) beat  Mikhail Shetty (Maharashtra) 7-5, 6-3;
• q Prateek Bhambri (Delhi) beat  Subash A Rao (Andhra Pradesh) 6-4, 6-2;
• Priyank Gangadharan (Kerala) beat  Rubal Shandilya (Delhi) 6-1, 6-2;
• q Rahul Jain (Delhi) beat  Vidhan Vyas (Delhi) 6-1, 6-3;
• 2 Peter Agnel Gladwin (Maharashtra) beat  Aashrey Mehra (Delhi) 6-1, 6-0.