Top seeds Soham Pathak, Siddhant Shanker win

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The top two seeds Soham Pathak of Parle Tilak Vidyalaya ( Vile Parle) and Siddhant Shanker of oberoi International School ( Goregaon), won their respective boys' under- 14 singles round of 64 matches in contrasting fashions on Sunday.

No. 1 seed Soham lived up to his top billing and stamped his authority to see off Sanay Mangesh Shastri of Udayachal School ( Vikhroli) by recording a comfortable 21- 7 victory.

Later, second seed Siddhant found the going tough as his unseeded opponent Pratham Shah of Podar International School ( Powai) played with grit and determination. Both the shuttlers slugged it out for every point, and the scores ran close till 18- all before Siddhant pushed on to win 21- 19.

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