Sai rallies to stay afloat

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 15 

Sai Vishnu Pullela rallied from a game down to beat Hari Vinayak D of Andhra Pradesh in boys' U-17 qualifiers at 26th Krishna Khaitan Memorial All-India Junior Ranking Badminton Championship here today.

Sai, son of India's chief national coach Pullela Gopichand, lost the opening game 7-15, but came back strongly to clinch the next two games 15-3 15-11 to win his round four match in the qualifiers at the Panjab University badminton hall here. 

Jaiditya Pratap Singh of Chhattisgarh overcame Maharashtra's Adheep Gupta 15-10 11-15 15-11. 

Pranav Sharma of Uttrakhand got the better of Andhra Pradesh's Venkata Harsha Vardhan 15-11 15-12, while Arnava Singh of Maharashtra rallied from a game down to beat Delhi's Manan Shingari 13-15 15-5 17-15. Rajasthan's Shubham Patel defeated Maharashtra's Aniket Bandgar 15-13 15-10. Rithvik Sanjeevi S of Tamil Nadu edged out Delhi's Pushaan Leo Paul 15-8 15-10.

Adheep moves ahead 

In the boys' U-19 category, Adheep Gupta of Maharashtra overcame Andhra Pradesh's Varaprasad Kanakala 15-11 9-15 15-6. 

Yash Raikwar of Madhya Pradesh registered a 15-9 15-17 15-13 win over Chhattisgarh's Anay Shirpurkar, while Delhi's Sidhant Chopra drubbed West Bengal's Subhodeep Mondal 19-17 15-11. Govind K of Kerala outplayed Haryana's Suraj Saroha 15-10 15-6. 

Assam's Monimugdha Rajkonwar humbled Bhavin Karamchandani of Gujarat 15-12 15-9. 

Divit-Shashikant triumph 

Divit Bhardwaj and Shashikant Rathi of Uttar Pradesh, meanwhile, defeated Goa's Mohammad Sadiq Attar and Siraj Wadkar 15-4 15-10 in the boys' U-19 doubles.

Mauryan K and Adarsh Subramanian R of Tamil Nadu overwhelmed West Bengal's Dishanta Debnath and Romit Ray 15-13 15-13. 

Qualifiers

Boys’ U-19: Rohan Gurbani bt Sanchit Kumar Pal 11-15 15-4 15-10, Tarun Gakhad bt Andrew Lotzem 15-10 15-11, Soham Navandar bt Dishanta Debnath 15-13 15-11, Ravi bt Vikash Prabhu R 15-11 9-15 15-11, Gautam Walia bt Rajan Yadav 9-15 15-8 15-8, Gaurav Mithe bt Himanshu Dabas 10-15 15-6 15-11, Saikiran M bt Suraj Chakroborty 15-11 15-13, Rithin B bt Siddhanth Gupta 15-13 15-13 , Sohit Hooda bt Soham Patil 15-10 9-15 15-10

Boys’ U-17: Arjun Rehani bt Jossen Johan 15-11 15-5, Sai Vishnu Pullela bt 7-15 15-3 15-11, Rithin B bt Naman Ladkani 15-9 15-9, Punshiba Yengkhom bt Ajay Dhankhar 17-15 15-10, Jaiditya Pratap Singh bt Achutaditya Rao Doddavarapu 14-16 15-4 15-8, Anshul Singhal bt Sesha Sai Pamarthi 15-1 15-3, Adheep Gupta bt Sathyamoorthy V 15-5 15-13, Sujal Varshey bt Tushar Singh Mehta 15-12 15-11, Vikash Prabhu R bt Ayush Patel 15-8 15-8, Manav Choudhary bt Shaurya Singh 15-9 15-13, Atharve Akesh Agrawal bt Aman Rana  15-12 15-12 

Girls’ U-19: Kaivalya Lakshmi Yadavalli bt Sneha Rajwar 9-15 15-8 15-12, Hazel Sehrawat bt Muskan Sangwan 10-15 15-10 15-12, Aashi Rawat bt Ekta Joshi 13-15 15-6 15-9, Anupama Upadhyaya bt Prerana Neeluri 15-4 15-9, Nikita bt Khushi Kumari 15-8 15-6