Khaitan memorial: Arjun wins Round 1
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 10
Haryana’s Arjun Mehta defeated Atul Tamrakar of Chhattisgarh in the qualifying first round match of the boys’ U-17 category in the 25th Smt. Krishna Khaitan All-India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament at Panjab University badminton hall.
Aditya Batra of Madhya Pradesh defeated Navneet Ujjain of Bihar 11-15 15-10 17-15. Simar Singh Sandhu beat Harsh Sharma 15-9 11-15 15-13. Sparsh Mohan defeated Lukesh Kumar Yadav 15-5 15-9 and Nitin Kumar defeated Vishwas Suri17-15 15-8.
In the girls’ U-17 category, Deepshikha Singh defeated Nishu Rapria of Haryana. Down 14-16 in the opening game, Deepshikha came back to register a 15-5 15-9 victory. Nidhi Tambe won a tough match against Aditi Agrawal of Gujarat. Tambe lost the opening game (8-15) but managed to win the match 15-5 15-13. Shilpi Pusadkar defeated Rageshri Garg 15-11 11-15 15-8 and Nikita Sharma beat Likhita Srivastava 15-12 10-15 15-5.
Drithi Yatheesh had an easy win over Aditi Verma 15-9 15-12, Uthsava Palit beat Vanshika Kapila 15-6 15-6 and Ekta Joshi defeated Kiranpreet Kaur 15-8 15-7.
In the boys’ U-19 second round match, Ankith Anilkumar beat Harsh 15-12 15-11, Vashu SF defeated Chirag Narang 15-4 15-3 and Saksham Rajpal overpowered Dish Kumar 15-5 15-7. Johny Nandal defeated Aditya Swami 18-20 15-13 15-13 while Dishant Sukhwal raised his game against Pratap Abhineet Singh to win the match 11-15 15-11 15-5. Gitesh Kumar defeated Ashutosh Verma 15-4 14-16 15-4 and Dhruv Vasisht beat Maheshwar Walia 9-15 15-5 15-8 in the other matches of the day. In the girls’ U-19 first round matches, Deepshikha Singh beat Saee Kale 15-9 15-11, Divyanshi Sharma defeated Arushi Singh 15-7 15-10, Anamika Kashyap overpowered Rageshri Garg 15-7 15-10 and Shavi Bhatnagar registered a 15-11 15-12 victory over Niki Rapria.
Results
Girls U-17 (1st round)
Ketki Navgire bt Shruti Sharma 15-12 15-12 , Medha Shashidharan bt Niki Rapria 15-11 15-3, Tapasya Landge Dadasaheb bt bt Alina Fatima15-2 15-1, Shavi Bhatnagar bt Tanya Sharma 15-2 15-5, Anjana Kumari bt Purva Naik 15-5 15-5, Meghana Ganakala bt Isha Singh 15-6 15-11, Deethya bt Mahima Tomar 15-10 15-12, Adya Parashar bt Lovely 15-3 15-4, Mahi Naresh bt Radhika Kulkarni 18-16 15-8 , Aashi Rawat bt Asmi Ohlyan 15-7 15-8, Vanshika Tandon bt Atmajayita Ray Barman 15-8 15-5, Soumya Raghavan bt Chavi Kanwar 15-10 16-14, Arshia Sethi bt Bhavya Krishnan 12-15 15-12 15-11, Krishnika Birok bt Divya, 15-8 15-9, Khushi Gupta bt Arpita Malik 15-8 15-12, Avni Dhankar bt Aeshita Sharma 15-7 15-6, Aruni Chauhan bt Arulbala 15-10 15-7, Kanika Sharma bt Shehjar Chowdhury 15-10 13-15 15-9, Rashi Vashisht bt Karuna Jakhar 15-6 15-6, Kavya Gupta bt Jasmine Rawat 15-9 15-7 .
Boys U-19 (2nd round)
Dhruv Vasisht bt Maheshwar Walia 9-15 15-5 15-8, Lakshey Thakur bt Ayush Garg 15-13 15-9, Aviral Kumar Yadav bt Umang Kaushik 15-11 13-15 15-10, Manoj Mahajan bt Mohammed Faique 15-2 15-12, Vedant Sharma bt Devesh Mittal 15-8 15-7, Khushfateh Singh bt Prateek Srivastava 15-12 15-12, Chandraj Patnaik bt Anirudh Shankar 15-11 15-9, Mayank Singh bt Kuber Arora 15-10 15-10, Laxman Nikhit bt Rohan Thool 6-15 19-17 15-6, Jayant Sisodiya bt Aarsh Tyagi 15-5 15-6.
Girls U-19 (1st round)
Meghana Ganakala bt Nidhi Tambe 15-3 15-8, Romil Singh bt Shreya Vats 15-8 15-8.
