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Vijeta clinches title

By Our Sports Reporter

BANGALORE Sept. 20. Vijeta Bhargava clinched the girls under-10 singles title of the Union Bank All India junior ranking badminton tournament at the KBA Courts here on Saturday. In the final, the Madhya Pradesh girl was hardly tested in her 11-0, 11-6 victory over Karnataka's Taanya Ravi. Vijeta pocketed the first game in a jiffy while a visibly tiring Taanya Ravi remained error prone for the rest of the match.

Earlier, the tournament had its first upset as the boys under-19 top-seed T. Dinesh of Andhra succumbed in the pre-quarter-final here late on Friday night to Kerala's K. Aiyappan Krishnan. Dinesh lost 12-15, 8-15. However Aiyappan failed to maintain the tempo and suffered a 11-15, 10-15 defeat against Karnataka's Utsav Prakash in the quarter finals here today.

The results:

Girls: Under-10, singles, final: Vijeta Bhargava (MP) bt Taanya Ravi (Kar) 11-0, 11-6. Semi-finals: Vijeta Bhargava bt Daya Elsa Jacob (Ker) 11-0, 11-3; Taanya Ravi (Kar) bt Manasi Jain (MP) 11-5, 11-7.

Under-13, semi-finals: I.R.D. Shravani (AP) bt Shruthi Sridhar (Kar) 11-1, 11-6; Vaishali Baria (Guj) bt G. Divya (AP) 11-1, 11-7. Quarter-finals: I.R.D. Shravani (AP) bt Vijetha Barghava (MP) 11-0, 11-0; Shruthi Sridhar (Kar) bt Jancy James (AP) 11-2, 11-9; G. Divya (AP) bt Jyot Kaur Rekhi (Mah) 11-6, 13-10; Vaishali Baria (Guj) bt Adta Taqvi (Kar) 13-11, 11-8.

Under-16, quarter-finals: Saina Nehwal (AP) bt Madhuri Vijay (Kar) 11-0, 11-3; Neha Rane (Mah) bt Vaidehi Dave (Guj) 11-7, 13-10; Sonal More (Mah) bt Jyothi Swaroopa (AP) 11-1, 11-6; Neha Pandit (Mah) bt G.M. Nischitha (Kar) 11-7, 11-4.

Under-19, quarter-finals: Saina Nehwal (AP) bt Neha Pandit (Mah) 11-4, 11-2; Gayathri Kochak (Mah) bt Vaidehi Dave (Guj) 11-7, 11-9; Sarada Govarshini (AP) bt Ridhi Pajwani (Mah) 2-11, 11-7, 11-9; Aparna Balan (Ker) bt Sayali Gokhale (Mah) 11-6, 6-11, 11-5.

Boys: Under-10, singles, semi-finals: J. Harsha (AP) bt N.V.S. Vijetha (AP) 15-11, 15-0; Vinay Hari (Kar) bt J. Naresh (AP) 11-15, 15-11, 15-3. Quarter-finals: N.V.S. Vijeta (AP) bt Chirayu Jain (MP) 15-9, 15-5; J. Harsha (AP) bt Himanshu Kotbagi (Kar) 17-14, 15-6; Vinay Hari (Kar) bt Pawan Kumar (UP) 15-3, 15-8; Naresh (AP) bt Surjeet Singh (UP) 15-7, 15-5.

Under-13, semi-finals: Rajkumar (Punj) bt Amey Merchant (Mah) 15-8, 15-3; Aditya Prakash (Kar) bt Phaneendra Pasare (Kar) 15-1, 15-5. Quarter-finals: Rajkumar (Punj) bt Raviraj (AP) 15-10, 15-12; Amay Merchant (Mah) bt Naveen Kumar (AP) 15-8, 15-4, 15-8; Phaneendra Pasare (Kar) w/o Sai Praneeth (AP); Aditya Prakash (Kar) bt A.R. Manikandan (TN) 15-5, 15-5.

Under-16, quarter-finals: Jishnu Sanyal (West Bengal) bt Aditya Elango (TN) 15-4, 15-1; Ajay Jayaram (Mah) bt Saurabh Parlikar (Mah) 13-15, 15-2, 15-12; Naveen Kumar (AP) bt Chaitanya Naik (Mah) 15-10, 15-4; G.M. Nandish (Kar) bt Srujan Nandaloori (AP) 13-15, 15-2, 15-12. Under-19, quarter-finals: Utsav Prakash (Kar) bt Aiyappan Krishnan (Ker) 15-11, 15-10; Rohan Castelino (Kar) bt Mayank Behl (Rly) 15-11, 15-8; V. Amar (Kar) bt Shashank Shastry (Kar) 15-13, 15-5; Sagar Chopda (Mah) bt Anshuman Hazarika (Asm) 13-15, 15-6, 15-13.

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