The unfancied Bangalore lad edged out Ankur, who had registered a handsome win in the strokeplay event only yesterday.
The other seeded players kept their slate clean to advance to the second round including the foreign participants -- Tshendra Dorji (Bhutan), Abel Tam (Malaysia), Mohammad Sagor (Bangladesh) and Vijitha Bandara (Sri Lanka).
Results: B R Raja beat Ankur Chadha 1-up; Pratap Atwal beat Sunit Chowrasia 1-up; Abel Tam b Ainesh Ahluwalia 5&3; Udyan Mane b Dhruv Sheoran 1-up; Karan Taunk b Harimohan Singh 4 & 3; Gagan Verma b Jasjeet Singh on 4 & 3; Viraj Madappa beat Shakti Singh 6 & 5; Arjun Sharma b Amit Kumar 3 & 2; Mohammad Sagon b Arjun Singh on 20th hole; Samarth Dwivedi b Hemendra Chaudhary 2-up; Trishul Chinnappa b Feroz S Garewal 7 & 5; Arshad Ali beat Syed Saqib Ahmed 2 & 1; Subhankar Sharma beat SK Pappu 5 & 3; Manpreet Mann beat Vikram Rana on 21st hole; Tshendra Dorji went 1UP against Raghubir Chaudhary; Vijitha Bandara b SK Lakra 4 & 3l.
