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Abhinav, Vaidehi enter semifinals

By Our Sports Reporter

KOZHIKODE OCT. 14. The under-16 boys' top seed, G.M. Nandish of Karnataka, and the second seed in the girls' under-16, Neha Pandit of Maharashtra, were the biggest casualties on Tuesday at the V.K. Krishna Menon indoor stadium in the SBT 17th National sub-junior badminton championship. Their conquerers — both unseeded — in the quarterfinals were Abhinav Kapoor from Maharashtra (he won in three games, 15-13, 8-15, 15-1) and Vaidehi Dave of Gujarat (11-9, 6-11, 11-8).

The other higher-seed player to taste defeat in the round of last eight was second seed Vaishali Baria of Gujarat in the girls' under-13, who was beaten 11-7, 7-11, 7-11 by Sruthi Sreedhar of Karnataka, seeded sixth.

In the pre-quarterfinals earlier in the day, the boys' under-13 third seed Pratik Patel and the seeds No. 4 and 5 in the girls' under-13, Afda Taqfi (Karnataka) and Jancy James (Andhra), were knocked out.

Abhinav was impressive, especially with his smashes, in his win against Nandish, who looked too tired to put up a fight in the final game. "I knew that stamina wasn't the strong point of Nandish,'' said the victor, "so I was feeling very confident going into the deciding game.''

The results: Boys' singles: Under-16 (quarterfinals): Abhinav Kapoor (Mah) bt G.M. Nandish (Kar) 15-13, 8-15, 15-1; Kaushik Pal (Ben) bt Saurav Kapoor (HP) 17-16, 15-12; Ajay Jayaram (Mah) bt Sankar P. Gopan (Ker) 15-5, 15-7; Jishnu Sanyal (Ben) bt Akshay Dewalkar (Mah) 15-8, 15-2.

Pre-quarterfinals: G.M. Nandish (Kar) bt Suranjan Bhobora (Asm) 15-5, 15-9; Abhinav Kapoor (Mah) bt I.S. Naveen Kumar (AP) 15-5, 15-3; Kaushik Pal (Ben) bt Mandeep Singh (Chd) 15-11, 15-7; Sankar P. Gopan (Ker) bt Samruth Rathod (Mah) 15-7, 12-15, 15-6; Ajay Jayaram (Mah) bt Mahfooz Ahmed (UP) 15-1. 15-10; Akshay Dewalkar (Mah) bt Aditya Elango (TN) 11-15, 15-10, 15-9; Jishnu Sanyal (Ben) bt Srujan (AP) 15-7, 15-2.

Doubles (quarterfinal): Sankar P. Gopan & G.M. Nandish (Ker) bt Saurav Kapoor & Anshul (Har) 15-5, 15-6. Pre-quarterfinals: Lokesh & Naveen Kumar (AP) bt S. Anand & Saurabh Panda (Cht) 15-3, 15-4; Jishnu Sanyal & Kaushik Pal (Ben) bt Nalin Dubey & Ram C. Vijay (Guj) 13-15, 15-2, 15-11; Samruth Rathod & Saurabh Paralkar (Mah) bt Sashank Achar & Phalgun (Kar) 15-12, 15-7; Balbir Rawat & Rohit Ranaut (Utt) bt Oscar Bensal & Mandeep Singh (Chd) 15-10, 15-11; Amey Joshi & Akshay Dewalkar (Mah) bt S. Ejaz & Saban Ahmed (UP) 15-5, 17-16; J. Niranjan & Aditya Elango (TN) bt Suranjan & Parikshit (Asm) 15-3, 16-17, 15-4; Saurav Kapoor & Anshul (Har) bt Uday Thorat & Prasad Shetty (Mah) 15-6, 17-14; Sankar P. Gopan & G.M. Nandish (Ker) bt Chaitanya Naik & Rohit Narke (Mah) 15-8, 15-8.

Under-13 singles (quarterfinals): Aditya Prakash (Kar) bt Ashu Pandey (Utt) 15-6, 15-4; Parin Chopda (Mah) bt D. Raviraj (AP) 15-9, 15-2; Niket Karnatak (Utt) bt Neeraj Rahman (Ker) 15-13, 15-7; Raj Kumar (Pun) bt Ishan Naqvi (UP) 15-5, 15-7.

Pre-quarterfinals: Aditya Prakash (Kar) bt Rahul Khera (Del) 15-4, 15-8; Ashu Pandey (Utt) bt P. Naveen Kumar (AP) 10-15, 15-9, 15-5; Parin Chopda (Mah) bt Saurav Chatterjee (Ben) 15-5, 15-4; D. Raviraj (AP) bt Vishnu Prasad (Ker) 15-5, 15-5; Neeraj Rahman (Ker) bt Sachin Kumar (Jha) 15-8, 15-8; Niket Karnatak (Utt) bt Pratik Patel (Guj) 17-14, 17-14; Ishan Naqvi (UP) bt Kirtesh (Har) 15-3, 4-15, 17-14; Raj Kumar (Pun) bt Sai Praneeth (AP) 8-15, 15-11, 15-6.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Vishnu Prasad & Neeraj Rahman (Ker) bt Ravi Raj & Naveen Kumar (AP) 10-15, 15-8, 17-16; Parin Chopda & Pratik Patel (Mah) bt Satyanarayanan & Manikantan (TN) 15-7, 15-7; Niket Karnatak & Bhaskar Agarwal (Utt) Homendra Singh & Samrojit 15-8, 15-5; Raj Kumar & Pravin Chopda (Pun) bt Nrupendra Singh & Jai Singh (UP) 15-9, 15-10.

Girls: Under-16 singels (quarterfinals): Saina Nehwal (AP) bt Sonal More (Mah) 11-8, 11-6; Neha Rane (Mah) bt G.M. Nischitha (Kar) 11-8, 11-3; Anjali Kalitha (Asm) bt V. Ruth Misha (Kar) 11-4, 11-7; Vaidehi Dave (Guj) bt Neha Pandit (Mah) 11-9, 6-11, 11-8.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Anjali Kalitha & Neha Pandit (Asm) bt M. Sruthi & S. Sindhu (Ker) 15-11, 15-9; Saina Nehwal & Jyotsna (AP) bt Vaidehi Dave & Urvi Parekh (Guj) 15-3, 15-6.Under-13 singles (quarterfinals): I.R.D. Sravani (AP) bt Moharmala Mukherjee (Ben) 11-4, 11-6; Pradnya Gadre (Mah) bt Nikita Chadha (Guj) 11-0, 11-2; Vinita Ghate (Mah) bt P.C. Thulasi (Ker) 11-4, 11-1; Sruthi Sreedhar (Kar) bt Vaishali Baria (Guj) 7-11, 11-7, 11-7.

Doubles (quarterfinals): P.C. Thulasi & Afda Taqvi (Ker) bt Kaatyani Sreevatsa & Mansi (MP) 15-1, 15-1; Pradnya & Shweta (Man) bt Parvathy Suresh & Divya (Ker) 15-12, 15-3; Sruthi & Ankita (Kar) bt Mohormala & Tamali (Ben), 15-8, 15-6; I.R.D. Sravani & Jancy James (AP) bt Alka Kumari & Amruta (Man) 15-8, 15-5.

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