Visakhapatnam, October 21: Second-seeded Sanil Shetty was taken to the cleaners by qualifier Nishaad Shah of Air India in the second round of the 11Even Sports National Ranking (South Zone) Table Tennis Championships here today.

In a match that went the full distance, Nishaad made a fantastic comeback twice over—he was down 0-2 and then 2-3—to win 4-3 and thus earn a pre-quarterfinal meeting with A. Sharath Kamal tomorrow morning. Sharath had a straight games win over Abhishek Yadav.

But for this lone upset, all other seeds went through to the next round without any hang-up. However, there was another match that went down to the wire when Sarthak Gandhi overcame Ronit Bhanja of West Bengal 4-3.

Results:

Men’s Singles: (2nd round): G. Sathiyan bt Harsh Sachnandani 4-1, Siddesh Pande bt Birdie Boro 4-0, Nitin Thiruvengadam bt Vignesh Reddy 4-1, Manav Thakkar bt Rohit Chakraborty 4-1, Subhajit Saha bt Lahoti Harshvardhan 4-1, Sushmit Sriram bt Arjun Ghosh 4-0, AAI’s Sarthak Gandhi bt Ronit Bhanja 4-3, Jubin Kumar bt Subhash Mani 4-2, Harmeet Desai bt Sanmay Paranjpe 4-2, Aman Balgu bt Soumyadeep Roy 4-2, Raj Mondal bt Sudhanshu Grover 4-0, Utkarsh Gupta bt Jignesh Jaiswal 4-2, Devesh Karia bt Sabhya Virmani 4-3, Sougata Sarkar bt Snehit Suravajjula 4-1, A. Sharatah Kamal bt Abhishek Yadav 4-0, Nishaad Shah bt Sanil Shetty 4-3.