All-India Junior ranking badminton tournament: Shikha, Archana in last-16 stage
Bengaluru: Top seed Shikha Gautam of Karnataka overcame a fighting Unnati Bisht of Haryana in the U-19 category to enter the last-16 stage in the 15th All-India Junior ranking badminton tournament at the Karnataka Badminton Association on Friday.
Shikha won 21-12, 21-23, 21-9. Joining her in that stage was state-mate Archana Pai, who defeated Kanika Kanwal of AI 21-18, 21-15.
Results (Top-10 and Karnataka only, seedings in brackets): Boys: U-19 (Round-32): Chirag Sen (AI) x1) bt Vansh Singh (Mah) 21-9 21-12; Rahul B. BM (Kar) bt Swarnaraj Bora (Asm x15) 30-28 21-16; Kaustubh Rawat (Utr x11) bt Sai Pratheek KP (Kar) 21-14 21-15; Mithun M. (AI x3) bt Deep R. (Mah) 21-17 21-13; Raghu M. (Kar) bt Tapas Shukla (UP) 21-4 22-20.
Round-64: Adithya Bapineedu (TS) bt Anirudh Deshpande (Kar) 18-21 21-19 21-7; Aryamann Tandon (Guj x7) bt Manan Jain (Raj) 21-16 21-13; Orijit Chaliha (AI x9) bt Pranay R (AP). 21-15 21-19; Kanishq M. (AI x4) bt Yovan Dabas (Har) 21-15 21-13; Siddharth Pratap (CG) bt Balraj Kajla (Kar) 21-18 21-19; Bodhit Joshi (Utr x5) bt Sonam Tamang (ANP) 21-8 21-8; Rahul Bhardhvaj BM (Kar) bt Nikhilshyam Sriram (Kar) 21-17 21-16; Sai Pratheek KP (Kar) bt B Anant Sharma (Dli) 21-17 21-13; Gulshan Kumar (AI x8) bt Abhishek Saini (Har) 21-16 21-11; Mithun M. (AI x3 bt Paras Mathur (Har) 21-15 20-22 21-13; Dhruv Rawat (Utr) bt Ganesh Vittalji (Kar) 23-25 21-7 21-16; Arintap Dasgupta (AI x6 w/o Shourya Singh (CG); Raghu M. (Kar) bt Kartik Jindal (Har x10] 21-15 21-15; Lakshya Sen (Utr x2 bt Sai Charan (AP) 21-15 21-16.
U-17: Round-32: Kartikey Gulshan Kumar (AI x1) bt Iman Sonowal (Asm) 21-12 21-18; Mohit Goury (Har) Veda Vyas (AP x6) 19-21 21-15 21-19; Kiran George (Ker x3) bt Priyanshu Rajawat (MP) 21-9 21-11; Alap Mishra (MP x10) bt Bidyasagar Salam (MNP) 21-14 21-13; Abhyansh Singh (UP x5) bt Gaurav Mithe (Mah) 19-21 21-10 21-18; Rahul Bhardhvaj BM (Kar) bt Aman Farogh (Mah) 21-12 21-18; Orijit Chaliha (AI x4) bt Prasanth K (AP) 21-8 21-17; Monimugdha Rajkonwar (Asm x8) bt Mayuresh Janpandit (Mah) 23-21 23-21; Abhyudya Agrawal (Guj x9) Yovan Dabas (Har) 13-21 22-20 21-17
Round-64: Kartikey Kumar (AI X1) bt (Mah) Ajinkya Patharkar 21-8 21-17; Iman Sonowal (Asm) bt Tejas Kallolkar (Kar) 21-14 21-14; Veda Vyas Anumula (AP X6) bt Tilak M (PY) 21-16 21-15; Kiran George (KER X3) bt (AP) Anurag K. 21-13 21-6; Alap Mishra (MP X10) bt Pranay R. (AP) 21-11 22-20; Abhyansh Singh (UP X5) bt Anish Chandra J. (TS) 21-9 21-9; Gaurav Mithe (Mah) bt Migil Yogananda (Kar) 21-15 21-13; Rahul Bhardhvaj (Kar) bt Medhansh Vats (RAJ) 21-8 21-6; Prasanth K. (AP) bt Shamanth Kidiyoor (Kar) 13-21 21-19 23-21; Orijit Chaliha (AI X4) bt Aniket Pardeshi (MP) 21-14 21-8; Charith KRK (AP X14) bt Sai Pratheek (Kar) 21-12 19-21 22-20; Jagadeesh K. (AP X2) bt Sarath D. (AP) 21-11 21-9.
Girls (U-19): Round-32: Shikha Gautam (Kar x1) Unnati Bisht (Har) 21-12 21-23 21-9; Archana Pai (Kar) bt Kanika Kanwal (AI x5) 21-18 21-15; Riya Mookerjee (UP x4) Deepthi Ramesh (Kar) 21-8 21-16; Ira Sharma (Har) bt Bhavya Rishi (Har x8) 21-11 21-19; Anura Prabhudesai (AI x6) bt Apeksha Nayak (Kar) 21-19 21-6; Shriyanshi Pardeshi (MP x3) bt Tanishka Deshpande (Mah) 21-9 13-21 21-12.
U-17: Round-16: Prashi Joshi (AI x1) bt Ananya Praveen (Kar) 21-15 21-15; Malvika Bansod (Mah) bt Nishita Varma (AP x8) 21-13 21-12; Purva Barve (Mah x3) bt Rashi Tyagi (UP) 21-10 21-8; K Ashwini Bhat (Kar x5) bt Trisha Hegde (Kar) 21-10 8-21 21-13; Sheethal D. (Kar) bt Ramya CV (Kar) 21-16 21-18; Rashi Lambe (Mah) Unnati Bisht (Utr x4) 23-21 21-18; Ananya Goel (Dli) bt) Deepthi Ramesh (Kar x7) 16-21 21-14 21-18
Round-32: Prashi Joshi (AI X1) bt Amolika Singh (UP) 21-16 21-23 21-17; Ananya Praveen (Kar) bt Riya Khatri (Del) 14-21 21-19 21-19; Nishita Varma (AP X8) bt Pooja Devlekar (Mah) 20-22 21-19 21-18; Purva Barve (Mah X3) bt Niveditha G. (AP) 21-7 21-6; Rashi Tyagi (UP) bt Drithi Yatheesh (Kar) 8-21 21-10 21-19; Ashwini Bhat (Kar X5) bt Yoshita Mathur (Raj) 21-9 21-10; Trisha Hegde (Kar) bt Gayatri Gopichand Pullela (TS) 16-21 21-6 21-15; Sheethal D. (Kar) bt Lakshmi Priyanka (TN) 21-19 21-9; Ramya CV (Kar) bt Akshita A. (AP X6) 21-7 21-18; Unnati Bisht (Utr X4) bt Deyashi Kanjibillya (Jha) 21-15 21-18; Deepthi Ramesh (Kar X7) bt Richa Muktibodh (Kar) 21-13 21-12; Aakarshi Kashyap (Cgh X2) bt Chakra Reddy (TS) 21-1 21-7; Chirag Sen (AI X1) bt Tejan Fallary (Goa) 21-6 21-10.
