Unseeded: Wen-Yi Chou ousts Nishad Kalluri

KARACHI: Unseeded Wen-Yi Chou from Chinese Taipei (TPE) caused a major upset by eliminating 7th seed Nishad Kalluri of India in Tajammul Abbas ITF Pakistan World Junior Ranking Tennis Championships at Dilawar Abbas PTF Tennis Complex, Islamabad, on Monday.

He defeated Nishad 6-2, 6-2 in the first round, while all the remaining seeded players won their matches.

Hamza Bin Rehan beat Shehryar Ahmed 6-1, 6-0; Huzaifa Abdul Rehman beat Ilyas Khan 6-0, 6-0; Numan Aftab beat Hasheesh Kumar 6-2, 6-1; Arthav Neema (India) beat Mathew Yee (Hong Kong) 4-6, 6-1, 7-5; Muhammad Shoaib beat Ahmed Kamil 6-0, 4-6, 6-1; Zalan Khan beat Ahmar Saeed 6-0, 6-2; We-Cheng Chen (Taipei) beat Zaryab Khan (Pakistan) 6-0, 6-2; Saqib Hayat (Pakistan) beat Bhaskar Mohan Roy Dolla (India) 6-2, 6-4; Rattanan Siritaworchar (Thailand) beat Lui Cheng Hsuni (Taipei) 4-6, 7-5, 6-0; Faisal Ghous (Canada) beat Bubhan Bin Salik (Pakistan) 7-5, 6-2; Wen-Yi Chou (Taipei) beat Nishad Kalluri (India) 6-1, 6-2; Ahmed Asjad Qureshi (Pakistan) beat Cameron Austin (US) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in a match that lasted two hours; Semi Zeb Khan beat Michael Chung Tin Chan (Hong Kong) 6-1, 6-1; and Moosa Chudhary beat Saeed Chudhary 6-0, 6-1.