Unseeded Aishwarya Khubchandani played brilliantly and held her nerves to come back from a one game deficit to defeat eighthseed Urwashi Joshi in round two of the HCL-SRFI India Tour here on Wednesday.
Khubchandani won 11-13, 11-3, 11-6, 11-7.
The second day witnessed a number of nail-biting and exhilarating moments as top seed Rachel Arnold dominated the unseeded Abhisheka Shannon 11-3, 11-5, 11-7, while sixthseed Tanvi Khanna overcame her Indian opponent Sachika Balvani, defeating her 11-9, 11-4, 11-7 to enter the quarterfinals.
In the men's tie, secondseed Aditya Jagtap breezed past Aadit Zaveri 11-4, 11-4, 11-5 to advance to the quarters.
Meanwhile, wild card Abhishek Agarwal's campaign was off to a flying start as he tamed third seed Bernat Jaume of Spain to advance to the quarters.
Abhishek took the first 2 games 11-6, 11-9 and was poised to take the match in straight games, but Bernat accelerated at the right time to score crucial points and take the thirdgame 11-5.
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Bernat started to intercept Abhishek's moves very well and did not allow him any room to score quick points taking the fourthgame by an identical 11-5 margin.
But, Abhishek came back strongly and dominated the final game winning by a huge 11-3 margin. He won the tie with 11-6, 11-9, 5-11, 5-11, 11-3 score line.
In another match, unseeded Abhay Singh defeated fifth seed Martin Svec of Czech Republic 11-8, 11-1, 11-6 to advance to the quarters and setup a clash against secondseed Aditya Jagtap.
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