Extending her brilliant winning streak, rising midfielder from India Unnati Hooda stormed into the U-17 women’s singles quarterfinals at the Badminton Asia U17 & U15 Junior Championships 2022 with a comfortable victory in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Thursday, making her a title contender.
The Odisha Open champion thrashed thailand‘s Nutchavee Sittiteeranan without breaking a sweat for 21-11, 21-19 in the round of 16 match. Starting the match with confidence, Unnati pocketed the first set with ease, but was pressured hard in the second. The Indian, however, kept her cool even as the game was at 18-18 and showed her brilliance to close out the set and the match comfortably in her favour.
The top seed Unnati will now face South Korea’s Min Ji Kim in the quarterfinals on Saturday. In the other Under-17 pre-quarterfinals, Dhruv Negi and Anmol Kharb suffered defeats. While fifth-seeded Dhruv lost to Indonesian Ryan Widyanto 16-21, 13-21 in the men’s section, Anmol put up a strong challenge against MalaysiaDania Sofia in the women’s singles before going down fighting 17-21, 21-19, 13-21 in a close game.
In addition to Unnati, India’s two doubles pairings were also victorious to advance to the under-17 quarterfinals. The men’s doubles pairing of Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Saraswat took just 20 minutes to overcome their Indonesian opponents Daniswara Mahrizal and Andre Mukuan by a score of 21-12, 21-10.
Whereas, the mixed doubles combination of Arul Ravi and Srinidhi Narayanan pulled off an easy 21-14, 21-17 victory over Thailand’s Rachprung Akat and Hathaithip Mijad. The women’s doubles pairings of Navya Kanderi and Rakshitha Ramraj, and Vennala Kalagotla and Shriyanshi Valishetty suffered losses in the round of 32 along with the men’s doubles pairing of Divyam Arora and Mayank Arora.
For their part, the duo of Tanvi Andluri and Durga Kandrapu reached the Round of 16 in the U-15 women’s doubles category after defeating the Thai Sunisa Lekjula and Pimchanok Sutthiviriyakul 21-18, 22-20. The men’s doubles duo of Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas PV also recorded their second win of the tournament by beating the Thai pairing of Thanik Foo and Woranan Saengvanich 18-21, 21-10, 21-16 in the Under-15 round. of-32 match.
The mixed doubles pairing of Ishaan Negi and Siddhi Rawat lost their last match of 32.
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