With days truncated, schedule squeezed and the number of entries showing a quantum jump, the top-eight seeded players in the sub-junior boys will for the first time in any national championships have not been accorded any byes.
The normal luxury of first-round byes has been deprived to them, thanks to 56 boys from as many groups qualifying to make the cut in main draw which began this afternoon.
Manushree and West Bengal's Prapti Sen have won two National ranking titles each but the former having garnered more points has been seeded at No 1 ahead.
The seedings include two others from Maharashtra -- Swastika Ghosh and Diya Chitale.
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With Tamil Nadu dominating the cadet events, one could see on an average three players coming into the top-eight bracket.
Seedings (1-8)
Sub-Junior Boys: Manush Shah (Guj), Anukram Jain, Alberto Lrrutta, H.Jeho (all PSPBA), Shivjit Singh Lamba (Del), Wesley D Rozario (Goa), Jayabrata Bhattacharya (NB), Harsh Srivastava (PSPBA).
Sub-Junior Girls: Manushree Patil (Mah), Prapti Sen (WB), Swastika Ghosh (Mah), Ishita Gupta (Del), Nikita Sarkar (NB), Tanishi Kirtani (Goa), Diya Chitale (Mah), Anusha Kutumbale (MP).
Cadet Girls: Kavyasree Baskar (TN), Lakshita Narang (Del), Anargya Manjunath (KNT), Suhana Saini (Har), Nehal Suriya Narayanan (TN), Prithoki Chakraborty (WB), Kheya Shah (Mah), Sathvika Venkata Chalapathi (TN).