City’s Kamil, Tejas record wins on Day 1 of badminton championship

Kamil Sabharwal and Tejas Nagpal of Ludhiana recorded victories in the girls U-15 and boys U-17 categories on the opening day of the Vardhman Special Steels Limited Sub-Junior Punjab Badminton Championship being held here.

Matches were played at Shastri Hall and Sutlej Club. Over 500 participants are taking part in this four-day championship.

Kamil survived a scare against Prabhsirat Kaur of Jalandhar before romping home 21-14, 21-18, while Tejas registered an easy 21-8, 21-7 win over Ekash of Pathankot.

Punjab Cabinet Minister Sanjeev Arora inaugurated the championship. Sachit Jain of Vardhman Special Steels Limited was the guest of honour on the occasion. The minister assured support for the uplift of badminton in the region.

Mohinder Singh Grewal, president, District Badminton Association, welcome the guests and appreciated Arora’s efforts in promoting sports in general and badminton in particular.

First day’s results

Boys singles (U-17): Rohan Chauhan (Jalandhar) beat Harnaman Singh (Kapurthala), Gurnoor Singh Virdi (Ludhiana) beat Karthik Kapoor (Jalandhar), Jaiman Kapoor (Gurdaspur) beat Ansh Chadha (Jalandhar), Shardul Khambete beat Yuvraj (Jalandhar), Bharatinder Sharma (Patiala) beat Tejas Rant (Ludhiana), Yuvraj Sharma (Sangrur) beat Vaikunth Verma (Patiala), Uday Sharma (Malerkotla) beat Navreen Singh Brar (Muktsar), Sahibjit Singh (Mohali) beat Jagnur Singh Malhi (Barnala), Vedant Rahi (Pathankot) beat Lakshman (Nawanshahr), Nikhil Verma (Jalandhar) beat Saksham (Muktsar), Manthan Dogra (Jalandhar) beat Taksh Duggal (Kapurthala), Krish Patial (Hoshiarpur) beat Vivek (Ludhiana), Karamveer Singh (Ludhiana) beat Bhavik Goyal (Moga), Agrim Kumar (Gurdaspur) beat Vinayak Bhatia (Ludhiana).

Girls singles (U-15): Samaira Oberoi (Jalandhar) beat Rupani Raj (Ludhiana), Mannat (Moga) beat Jasneet Kaur (Mohali), Shanaya Bhardwaj (Kapurthala) beat Gurmanpreet Kaur (Ludhiana), Sirat Dhaliwal

(Sangrur) beat Kashvi Agnihotri (Ludhiana).