Unseeded Gour shocks third seed Raghav in All India Ranking Tennis

NAGPUR: Unseeded Bhavesh Gour of Madhya Pradesh shocked his state counterpart and third seed Raghav Jaisinghani on the opening day of the Gondwana Club All India Ranking Tennis tournament on the club's synthetic court here on Monday.
Dominating from the word go, Gour got the better of Jaisinghani 6-1, 6-3. Barring third seed upset, other seeded players had a smooth sailing. Top seed Niteen Kirtane dethroned Darshan Shriniwas of Karnataka 6-4, 6-3, second seed Prajwal Dev downed bt Aman Shah, fifth seed Abhinansu Borthakur thrashed Jaganmaya Panigrahi, while seventh seed Aaditya Tewari prevailed over Gujarat's Jaydeep Chudasama 6-1, 6-7(4), 7-6(3).
Earlier, Gondwana Club president Jamashp Bapuna inaugurated the tourney. AITA supervisor Vaishali Shekatkar, MSLTA vice-president Sudhir Bhiwapurkar, tournament director Rakesh Wadehra, organising secretary Rachana Wadehra and tennis coordinator Ashok Bhiwapurkar were present on the occasion.
RESULTS (Round 1)
Men's singles: Jagmeet Singh (Har) bt Siddhesh Khade (Mah) 6-4, 6-3; Yash Yadav (MP) bt Mohit Bharadwaj (Del) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2; 8-Jatin Dahiya (Del) bt Dhaval Jain (Mah) 6-1, 6-3; Bhavesh Gour (MP) bt 3-Raghav Jaisinghani (MP) 6-1, 6-3; Rohan Bhatia (Mah) bt Raghavendra Subramanyam (KA) 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; Tarun Anirudh (AP) bt Vatsin Thaker (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; 5-Abhinansu Borthakur (TS) bt Jaganmaya Panigrahi (Mah) 6-0, 6-1; 7-Aaditya Tewari (MP) bt Jaydeep Chudasama (Guj) 6-1, 6-7(4), 7-6(3); Siddharth Poonala (TS) bt Nikhil Deshmukh (Guj) 6-0, 6-0; 1-Niteen Kirrtane (Mah) bt Darshan Shriniwas (KA) 6-4, 6-3, SA Reddy (AP) bt Pranav Prabhakaran (KA) 6-1, 6-0; Arpit Sharma (Raj) bt Archit Jain (Del) 6-2, 6-1; 2-SD Prajwal Dev (KA) bt Aman Shah (Mah) 6-0, 6-0; 6-Kunal Vazirani (Mah) bt Ajay Prithvi (TS) 6-2, 6-1; Tejas Shevde (Goa) bt Osama Shaik (TS) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, Garry Tokas (Del) bt Koonwar Gupta (Del) 6-3, 6-4.