Gupta, Kanetkar in quarterfinals

PUNE, July 10: Thirty minutes was all it took for top-seeded Abhin Shyam Gupta and second seeded Nikhil Kanetkar Air-India to dispose off V...

PUNE, July 10: Thirty minutes was all it took for top-seeded Abhin Shyam Gupta and second seeded Nikhil Kanetkar Air-India to dispose off Vikram Agarwal and Swaranjitsingh Khushwa of Uttar Pradesh to enter the last-eight of the All-India Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial Badminton Meet for Juniors at the WIE Sports complex, here, today.

Nikhil who is riding a wave of success with the recent triumph in the Krishna Khaitan meet at Chennai, disposed of his Kushwa’s challenge 15-3, 15-4 while Abhin followed with an emphatic 15-1, 15-6 win over Agrawal.However if the the top two seeded had easy outings, third seeded B Kiran Kumar a losing finalist at Chennai survived a scare at the hands of Arjun Kaliya of Delhi in a hour-long encounter played over three games 8-15, 15-7, 18-15.

Nagpur lad Amar Mohite, however, trained the spot light on himself accounting for sixth seed and state mate Aditya Umrani 9-15, 15-12, 15-7 to enter the quarters of the sub-junior boys singles.

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Top seed Pooja Patil (Karnataka), second seed Neha Ganguli (Maharashtra), third seed Trupti Murgunde (Maharashtra) and fourth seed Shruti Kurian (Andhra Pradesh) made it into the last eight stage in the sub-junior girl singles respectively.

All four seeds players in the junior girls singles sailed into the quarter-final round.

RESULTS

BOYS: Juniors (Singles): Abhin Shyam Gupta (A-I) bt Vikram Agarwal (UP) 15-1, 15-6; JBS Vidhyadhar (AP) bt Abhishek Bakshi (Ktk) 15-8, 15-12; Chetan Anand (A-I) bt Ajit Umrani 15-12, 15-1; Thomas Kurian (Ker) bt Pankaj Naik (Goa) 15-4, 15-2; Sushant Niddodhi (Mah) bt Nimesh Goyal (MP) 18-13, 15-10; Kiran Kumar (A-I) bt Arjun Kaliya (Del) 8-15, 15-7, 18-15; Gautam Poddar (Mah) bt Aushotosh Dighe (Mah) 18-13, 15-8; Nikhil Kanetkar (A-I) bt Swaranjitsingh Khushwa (UP) 15-3, 15-4.

Sub-Juniors: A Prithvi (AP) bt Sumed Deosurkar (Mah) 15-6, 15-5; Swaranjit Khushwa (UP) bt Anup Shridhar (Ktk) 15-8, 15-6; Kumar Devrajmaniya bt Amar Mohite (Mah) 15-9, 15-2; Gaurav Singh Sivash (UP) bt Prashant Bhatre (Mah) 15-2, 15-4.

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Mini: Nishad Dravid (Mah) bt Vasu Pande (UP) 15-0, 15-8; Abhijeet (Mah) bt Sagar Bajaj (Mah) 15-7, 12-15, 15-4; Abhishek Singh (UP) bt Sagar Chopra (Mah) 15-10, 15-8; Utsav Prakash (Ktk) bt Siddharth Sarfare (Mah) 15-3, 17-14; Gaurav Sonawane (Mah) bt Anuj Modi (Guj) 15-1, 15-2; Rohit Sadani (Mah) bt VAibhav Deshpande (Mah) 15-11, 15-8; Rohan Castellino (Ktk) bt Deelpritsingh Sahani (Mah) 15-5, 15-2.

GIRLS: Junior Singles: D Shewta (A-I) bt Neha Ganguli (Mah) 8-11, 11-5, 11-1; Shruti Kurian (AP) bt Sim Sim Salaria (Mah) 8-11, 12-9, 11-4; Ketati Thakar (A-I) bt Palkan Nagori (Guj) 10-12, 11-3, 11-8; Shalaka Damle (A-I) bt G Jwala (AP) 11-2, 11-3; Kranti Sane (Mah) bt Mugdha Bhagwat (Mah) 12-10, 11-4; B R Meenakshi (ktk) bt Gauri Narayanan (Mah) 11-3, 11-2; Pooja Patil (ktk) bt Roshani Thakur (Mah) 11-5, 2-11, 11-8; Divya Ramesh (A-I) bt Trupri Murgunde (Mah) 11-5, 12-10.

Sub-Jrs: Pooja Patil (ktk) bt Sri Laxmi (AP) 11-2, 11-3; Mugdha Bhagwat (Mah) bt Rashmi Khedikar (Mah) 11-4, 11-1; Shruti Kurian (AP) bt Mansi Bhave 11-7, 11-1; Gauri Narayan (Mah) bt Sangeeta Gururaj (Ktk) 2-11, 11-2, 11-4; G Jwala (AP) bt Mukta Gokhale (Mah) 11-4, 11-4; Trupti Murgunde (Mah) bt Aditi Biswas (ktk) 11-4, 11-8; Aditi Pandit (Mah) bt Preeti Sapre (Mah) 7-11, 11-7, 11-9; Neha Ganguli (Mah) bt Snehal Jagdeo (Mah) 11-0, 11-4.

(Minis): M V Saritha (ktk) bt Prachi Pitake (Mah) 11-4, 11-0; D Nivedita (AP) bt Aditi Kulkarni (Mah) 11-1, 11-1; Poonam Tiwari (UP) bt Mayura Wagle (Mah) 11-5, 11-7; Shivani Magekar (Mah) bt Dhruti Deshpande (Mah) 11-1, 11-6; Dhanya NAir (Mah) bt Dipti Paranjpe (Mah) 12-9, 11-7; Riddhi Pajwani (MAh) bt Nikita Huskudli (Mah) 11-6, 11-3; Meghana Pavaskar (Mah) bt Riddhi Mota (Mah) 11-8, 3-11, 11-3; B Shrilaxmi (AP) bt Priyanka Bhide (Mah) 11-3, 11-2