Jaipur: Rajasthan’s top seed Parul Choudhary registered a hard-fought victory to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the Yonex-Sunrise All India Sub-Junior (U-15 & U-17) Ranking Badminton tournament being played at the Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium here on Sunday.
The nine-day long tournament is being organized by the Rajasthan Badminton Association under the auspices of Badminton Association of India.
In other matches, Nehal Sisodia of Rajasthan, seeded fourth, and Anvi Rathod, seeded fifth, made it to the pre-quarterfinals.
In the Under-17 girls singles, southpaw Parul Chaudhary defeated Tamil Nadu’s Harini Raja 19-21, 21-17, 21-6, while in the U-15 girls’ singles, Nehal Sisodia overcame Gujarat’s fourth seed Siona Gala.
In other matches of the same age group, Anvi Rathod trounced Avani Reddy of Telangana by 21-12, 21-19 and Aaradhya Taylor prevailed over Sharvari of Maharashtra 21-12, 21-18.
Rajasthan’s Jaivardhan Singh outclassed Delhi’s Viaan Bisht 21-12, 21-13 in the U-15 boys’ singles.
In the mixed doubles match of Under-15 age group, Rajasthan pair of Garvit Barwar and Deshana registered a 21-12, 21-10 win over the eighth seeded pair of Andhra Pradesh’s V Dhonti and Venkatesh Yangana Sreedhonti and entered the quarter-finals.
In the Under-17 boys’ singles, fifth seeded Nischal Chand of Uttarakhand dismissed Tarang Raj of Tamil Nadu 21-13, 21-11 and in the girls’ singles of the same age group, third seeded Lakshya Rajesh of Karnataka got the better of Suryani of Telangana.
Nagpur shuttler Sairaj Nayse and Satya Chauhan (Mumbai) went down fighting in the main draw. In the U-15 boys doubles first round, Sairaj and Satya squandered one game advantage to lose against Aditya Singh Negi and Tanmay Verma of Uttarakhand.
Qualifiers Sairaj and Satya started well and pocketed the first game quite easily at 21-12. They were leading initially in the second game too but couldn’t maintain the tempo and lost the match 21-18, 18-21, 17-21 in 55 minutes.
Sairaj-Satya lost 12-21, 10-21 against eighth seeds Hardik Divyansh and Amith Raj Natraj of Karnataka in the U-17 boys doubles first round.
Sairaj, who is a student of Narayana Vidyalayam, trains under TS Bisht and Kunal Dasarwar, while Satya is a trainee of Uday Pawar Badminton Academy, Mumbai.
On Monday, quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played, while on Tuesday all the finals will take place, informed Rajasthan Badminton Association secretary KK Sharma on Sunday.
