National sub-junior badminton: Seeded players in pre-quarter-finals; Bihar's Rajesh in last 16

Rohit Yadav of Andhra Pradesh looks for a shot during his match in the National sub-junior and mini badminton championships in Patna on Thursday.
Photo: Aftab Alam











Patna, November 14
All the seeded players sailed smoothly into the pre-quarter-finals of boys and girls singles in the 22nd National sub-junior and mini badminton championships at the Secetariat Badminton Hall here on Thursday.

Leading the pack in the boys’ singles was top seed Sameer Verma of Madhya Pradesh. Others who made the grade were S Teja (AP), Rohit Yadav (AP) and Bhaskar Chakraborty (Delhi).

In the girls section, top seed Tanvi Lad had no difficulty to tame her rival. Mini boys’ section top seed Aditya Joshi and Rituparna Das (top seed in mini girls) too got their appointed place in the pre-quarter-finals.

It was a mix day for the hosts Bihar as Subham and Gulshan, who qualified for the third round on Wednesday, bowed out of the mini boys’ singles. However, making a pair Subham and Gulshan moved up in the mini boys’ doubles.

Bihar’s Rajesh Kumar brought some glimmer of hopes for the hosts as he won a fighting battle against Abhilash Sharma of Delhi 21-18, 21-8 to advance to the pre-quarter-finals.

Results:
Mini boys’ third round
Aditya Joshi (MP) beat Gulshan Kumar (Bihar) 21-5, 21-17; Satyam Shukla (Chandigarh) beat beat Rohan Kapoor (Delhi) 21-17, 16-21, 21-12; Chirag Sen (Uttarakhand) beat Adarsh (Pondy) 21-9, 21-12; Prthiviraj Yuva (AP) beat Sanim Riyaz (UP) 21-15, 18-21, 21-19; KP Chaitanya (AP) beat Ajay Singh (Raj) 21-12, 21-111; Md Ahsash (Assam) beat Sauvik Ghosh (WB) 21-12, 21-18; Amay Pawar (Mah) beat S Chichu (Kerala) 21-5, 21-6; Ramnadeep Singh (Punjab) beat Suraj Setty (Karanataka) 21-19, 13-21, 21-16; SS Reddy (A) beat M Singh (Tripura) 21-16, 21-15; Upendra (AP) beat Subham Prajapati (MP) 21-6, 21-11; Manjit Gogoi (Assam) beat Sumit Sharma (Punjab) 9-21, 21-16, 21-16; Harshil Dani (Maharashtra) beat Subham (Bihar) 21-18, 21-4; Shril (AP) beat Ayush (Haryana) 16-21, 21-13, 21-15; A Naqvi (UP) beat Abhishek Rawat (Gujarat) 21-7, 21-6; Gangadhar Rao (AP) beat Tridev Bora (Assam) 21-13, 21-9.

Mini girls’ third round
Rituparna Gohosh (WB) beat Mina Karma (Raj) 21-2, 21-8; Rashmi babu (TN) beat Vijeta (AP) 21-9, 21-16; KP Surti (Kerala) beat NS Shruti (Kerala) 20-22, 21-13, 21-11; V Harika (AP) beat Tanvi Shukla (Chandigarh) 21-9, 21-12; Anuska Parekh (Guj) beat Sweta Singh (UP) 21-3, 21-8; Priya Prakash (Karnataka) beat Rini Tandel (Gujarat) 21-13, 21-15; Asmita (Assam) beat JK Malvika (Kerala) 21-9, 21-18; M Puja (AP) beat Mehak Sud (Chandigarh) 21-9, 21-8; Mayuri PHukan (Assam) beat K Mistri (Gujarat) 21-15, 25-23; Reshma Kartik (Karnataka) beat Rupashri Nath (Tripura) 21-9, 21-10.