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Gayatri in semifinals

NEW DELHI: Comeback-lady Gayatri Mendiratta staged a remarkable rally from the brink to outlast Mohita Sahdev 17-21, 23-21, 25-23 and entered the women's singles semifinals of the J. D. Tytler memorial ranking badminton tournament here on Saturday.

The results (quarterfinals): Boys: under-10: Shikhar Aggarwal bt Rohan Kapoor 21-19, 2-15; Tarun Madan bt Arjun Chopra 21-19, 16-21, 21-9; Lakshya bt Tanishq Sachdeva 21-19, 21-16; Utkarsh Arora bt Arjun Pandit 21-4, 21-13.

Under-13: Trinayan Lahkar bt Yash Nain 21-14, 21-18; Abhilash Sharma bt Ashish Sachdeva 21-19, 21-16; Bhaskar Chakraborty bt Vaibhav Kotnala 21-7, 21-9; Harshvardhan Bisht bt Gaurav Deswal 21-15, 21-5.

Girls: under-10: Kanika Kanwal bt Anjali 21-19, 11-21, 21-13; Tanya Bhatt bt Tanisha Sachdeva 21-10, 21-13; Shivika Nehra bt Rageshree 21-11, 21-14; Noor bt Bhavna Phogat 21-9, 21-10. Under-13: Shreya Aggarwal bt Rashmeet Kaur 21-2, 19-21, 21-14; Sanskriti Chhabra bt Gauri Asija 21-18, 21-15; Nisha bt Chandni 21-18, 21-8; Shambhavi Bajaj bt Sanjana 21-11, 21-11.

Under-16: Priyanka Arja bt Yamini Sharma 22-20, 21-7; Shreya Aggarwal bt Shradha 21-11, 21-11; Nidhi Tiwari bt Saloni Chopra 17-21, 21-12, 21-18; Neetika bt Niharika 21-14, 21-9.

Under-19: Chitralekha bt Garishma Yadav 21-15, 21-16; Akanksha Nehra bt Nupur Sachdeva 21-10, 21-15; Mohita Sahdev bt Pappino 21-6, 21-15; Kritika Gautam bt Meenakshi 21-17, 21-19.

Women: Chitralekha bt Meenakshi 21-12, 21-13; Gauri Chopra bt Kritika Gautam 21-15, 21-8; Gayatri Mendiratta bt Mohita Sahdev 17-21, 23-21, 25-23; Akanksha Nehra bt Sujata 21-10, 21-10.

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