BANGALORE, Nov 29: Gopi Chand meets unseeded Siddharth Jain in the final of the Scottish International Badminton Championship at Edinburgh. Top seed Gopi Chand beat Dane Kasper Odeum 15-2, 15-8 while Jain overcame Pontus Jantti (Finland) 15-13, 15-13.In the first round earlier, India No 2 Nikhil Kanetkar lost 15-13, 11-15, 10-15 to Kasper Fangel (Denmark) and Kiran Kumar was beaten Antti Viitikko (Finland) 16-17, 15-10, 9-15.National junior girls champion BR Meenakshi scalped three seeds before losing 6-11, 8-11 in the semis to top seed Ida Takako (Japan). Meenakshi beat Russian Irina Rusljkova 11-9, 11-9 in the 1st round and then overcame second seed Joanna Szleszynska (Poland) 12-10, 11-9 and Danish No 5 Christina Sorensen in the quarter-finals.Neelima Choudary lost to German junior Anne Hoenscheid 6-11, 8-11 in the 1st round.
