Sunrise 34th Under-13 Junior Badminton National Championship
Lucknow, November 20 (Hindustan Times). Maharashtra’s top seed Yash Gaurav Sinha suffered a defeat in the men’s singles round of 32 on the second day of the 34th Yonex Sunrise U-13 National Badminton Championships. Gujarat’s Rudra Chauhan pulled off the biggest upset of the tournament by defeating Yash Gaurav Sinha 21-13, 9-21, 21-18 in a three-game match. On the other hand, the campaign of many seeds ended in defeat.
In the badminton matches played at Babu Banarasi Das Badminton Academy, top seed Hitashree L. Rajah, second seed Lakshmi Supriya Rao, third seed Lakshya and fifth seed Tanmai Dhamam, the 6th seed Renushree, 7th seed Shaina Manimuthu, 8th seed in the women’s category. individual matches Tanvi Patri reached the round of 16 with the win. In the men’s round of 32, 2nd seed Riyan Malhan, 3rd seed Pushkar Sai, 4th seed Nishant, 5th seed Vedant Pahwa and 6th seed Neeraj Nayyar PS all recorded wins.
UP’s Divyanshi Gautam reached the pre-quarterfinals of both categories with wins in singles and doubles. In the women’s singles, 15th seed Divyanshi defeated West Bengal’s Mahela Dasgupta 21-12, 21-12. Following this, the UP pair Divyanshi and Janhavi Singh defeated Jharkhand’s Aksa Firdaus and Anushka 21-6, 21-9 in women’s doubles. UP’s Divyansh Singh, who recently won the Under-11 National Champion title in men’s singles, ended his campaign with a loss. He was defeated by Andhra Pradesh’s Naga Chaitanya Reddy 21-13, 21-18.
Unseeded Prakhar Tiwari beat 10th seed S. Yogeshwaran of Tamil Nadu 21-15, 21-14 in men’s singles, while Sarthak Som beat Bihar’s Ishant Raj 21-12, 14-21 between UP players winning on Sunday. , 21-15 and in women’s doubles, UP’s Yana Gupta and Saumya Singh defeated Bihar’s Saumya Bharti and Suhani Kumari 21-12, 21-16 to secure a place in the round of 16.
In the Boys Singles Round 32, second seed Riyan Malhan of Delhi beat Sumit Sinha of Assam 21-17, 21-14, third seed Pushkar Sai of Karnataka beat Parth Khandelwal of Delhi 21-11, 21- 9, fourth seed Telangana Nishant defeated Punjab’s Viraj Sharma 21-17, 20-22, 21-11, fifth-seeded Haryana’s Vedant Pahwa defeated West Bengal’s Shauryadeep Singh 21-16, 21-6 and Neeraj Nayyar PS, the sixth seed from Tamil Nadu, defeated Kerala’s Adam Jeslin 23-21, 21-9.
In the 32nd round of women’s doubles, top seeds Lakshya ND and Diksha SR of Tamil Nadu, second seeds Tanmai Dhamam and Lakshmi Supriya Rao of Andhra Pradesh, third seeds Shayana Manimuthu and Akiya Shetty of Karnataka, Sixth seeds Lakshya Sathi and Shreya Tripathi of Delhi and Eighth seeds P.Shinde and G.Suryavanshi of Maharashtra secured a place in the quarterfinals with a win.
Fourth-seeded Avni Vikram Govind of Telangana, 11th-seeded Darshita Rajguru of Maharashtra, 13th-seeded Pranjal Prashant Shinde of Maharashtra and 10th-seeded Yogeshwaran S of Tamil Nadu lost in the Round of 32 in the women’s singles.
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