Seeded Prashant, Sayali exit

PUNE, June 23: Fourth seed Prashant Bahatre of Nanded and Sayali Gokhale of Pune joined the list of early casualties, when both the playe...

PUNE, June 23: Fourth seed Prashant Bahatre of Nanded and Sayali Gokhale of Pune joined the list of early casualties, when both the players were knocked-out by unseeded opponents on the second day of the XII Rainbow Open junior state-level badminton championship being played at the WIE sports complex, here today.

Prashant Bahatre was in for a surprise as his unseeded rival and local lad Sameer Bhagwat fought tooth and nail, winning 15-12, 15-13 in the junior boys singles second round. Following Prashant was Sayali, who took the first game quite comfortably 11-6 against her citymate Poonam Walimbe, but was clueless as Poonam bounced back to win 11-8, 11-4 in the sub junior girls singles.

Results
Boys
Jr singles: 1-Varun Khanwalkar (Pn) bt Vikrant Parbat (Pn) 15-3, 15-3; Rahul Tipnis bt Amol Kanade 10-15, 15-10, 17-15; Sameer Bhagwat (Pn) bt 4-Prashant Bahatre (Nanded) 15-12, 15-13; Vinayak Putra (MS) bt Akshay Thakkar (Tn) 15-5, 15-4; Nitin Ingole (Nsk) bt Nikhil Lokhande (Pn) 12-15, 15-8, 15-1; 3-Nishad Dravid (Dhule) bt Rajneelam Bansode (Pn) 15-5, 15-5; Sumedh Deorukhkar (Pn) bt Ninad Khade (Pn) 15-1, 15-11; 2-Himanshu Thakkar (Tn) bt Anupam Singh (MS) 15-9, 10-15; 15-5.

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Sub-Jr singles: 1-Nishad Dravid (Bhule) bt Sachin Sheth (MS) 15-0, 15-0; Ajay Jayram (MS) bt 8-Pranav Khol (Pn) 15-12, 9-15; 15-4; 3-Ajit Phatak (Pn) bt Nitesh Joshi (Pn) 15-4, 15-1; 7-Aditya Chitre (Pn) bt Siddharth Pillay (Tn) 15-3, 15-1; 4-Akshay Thakkar (Tn) bt Parag Tulpule (Pn) 15-2, 15-3; 5-Soham Gadgil (Pn) bt Harshad Bhagwat (Pn) 15-3, 15-0; 2-Amar Mohite (Nag) bt Abhishek Bhide (MS) 15-8, 15-0.

Girls
Jr singles: 1-Mugda Bhagwat (Pn) bt Anuj Wadke (MS) w/o; Neha Gangule (GB) bt Manasi Bhave (Pn) 11-8, 11-5; Nupura Bhide (MS) bt Rashmi Yeolekar (Tn) 11-3, 11-0; Nikita Hurkadli (MS) bt Arti Mankad (Aur) 11-0, 11-1; Aditi Kulkarni (MS) bt Sampada Pai (MS) 11-0, 11-0; Dhanya Nair (Pn) bt Prajakta Marathe (GB) w/o; 2-Gauri Narayanan (MS) bt Prachi Raje 11-1, 11-2.

Sub Jr singles: 1-Nikita Hurkadi (MS) bt Priyanka Shab (Pn) 11-0, 11-2; Shipi Kankane (Pn) bt Arti Mankar (Aur) 11-2, 11-1; Poonam Walimbe (Pn) bt 4-Sayali Gokhale (Pn) 6-11, 11-8, 11-4; Gauri Bhange (Pn) bt Manasi Bhave 11-0, 11-3; Meghana Pawaskar (Pn) bt Amruta Sawant (MS) 11-0, 11-7; 3-Riddhi Panjwan (MS) bt Manasi Marathe (Aur) 11-7, 11-2; Aditi Mutatkar (Pn) bt Neha Verma (Aur) 11-3, 11-3; 2-Dhanya Nair (Pn) bt Manasi Joshi (Pn) 11-3, 11-2.