Inayat, Mehwish set up title clash in U-15 category

Inayat Gulati of Jalandhar and Mehwish Kaur of Gurdaspur wrapped up their respective semifinals to set up the title clash in the girls U-15 category on the penultimate day of the Vardhman Special Steels Limited Punjab State Sub-Junior Badminton Tournament being held here on Tuesday.

Inayat outperformed Japleen Kaur of Ferozepur 21-16, 21-13 and Mehwish overwhelmed Sonakshi of Amritsar 21-4, 21-6 to book their berths in the final.

In other matches, Boys singles (U-17): Viren Seth (Jalandhar) beat Shivam Puri (Kapurthala), Aditya Sharma (Ludhiana) beat Aarav Dogra (Jalandhar), Geetansh Sharma (Jalandhar) beat Anhad Singh Nagpal (Amritsar), Raghav Bhatia (Ludhiana) beat Shaurya Kumar Khanna (Jalandhar), Kaivalya Sud (Amritsar) beat Arnav Thakur (Patiala), Sahib (Amritsar) beat Abhimanyu Singh (Patiala), Viraj Sharma (Jalandhar) beat Kulpreet Singh (Sangrur), Kritagya Arora (Amritsar) beat Vardaan Singh Gill (Bathinda).

Boys doubles (U-15): Satvik Bhatia (Ludhiana) and Zorawar Singh (Jalandhar) beat Aarav Madan and Rabur Pratap Singh (Patiala), Manan Rana and Vihaan Kapoor (Mohali) beat Ayaan Mittal and Yashpreet Singh (Moga), Dev Aryan and Utkarsh Narang (Fazilka) beat Arif Dhiman (Patiala) and Rabbiguel Anji (Ludhiana), Harshvardhan Kaliya and Ridhaan Chadda (Amritsar) beat Aadviik Bhatia and Kunal (Ludhiana).

Girls doubles U-15 (quarterfinals): Ananya Sharma and Simarpreet Kaur (Jalandhar) beat Avleen Kamboj and Rishita (Fazilka), Anayta Dohre and Aunika Duggal (Mohali) beat Jasleen Kaur (Gurdaspur) and Manvi Arora (Hoshiarpur).