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Tanveer, Mohita win titles

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NEW DELHI: Tanveer Gill tamed Himanshu Kharbanda 21-10, 21-15 to claim the men’s singles title in the second Pramod Mahajan Delhi-ranking badminton tournament on Tuesday.

Tanveer had knocked out top seed Rohit Ranaut 22-20, 21-16 in the semifinal played earlier in the day. Kharbanda was a 21-15, 21-17 winner over Davinder Dhillon in the semifinals.

In the ladies final, top seed Mohita Sahdev easily beat Gauri Chopra 21-17, 21-12.

The results (finals): Men: Singles: Tanveer Gill bt Himanshu Kharbanda 21-10, 21-15; Doubles: Davinder Dhillon & Himanshu Kharbanda bt Rohit Ranaut & Keshav Sharma 21-14, 21-15.

Women: Singles: Mohita Sahdev bt Gauri Chopra 21-17, 21-12; Doubles: Gauri & Meenakshi Nair bt Mohita & Saloni Chopra 21-19, 21-14.

Mixed doubles: Tanveer Gill & Meenakshi Nair w.o. Davinder Dhillon & Gauri Chopra.

Boys under-19: Singles: Abhishek Ahlawat bt Gauranshu Chopra 21-16, 9-21, 21-17; Doubles: Ahlawat & Chopra bt Kaustav Das & Rishabh Talreja 21-18, 21-17.

Girls under-19: Singles: Nidhi Tiwari bt Priyanka Arya 15-21, 21-17, 23-21; Doubles: Priyanka & Saloni Chopra bt Nidhi Tiwari & Shraddha Srivastav 26-24, 24-22.

Boys under-16: Singles: Bhaskar Chakraborty bt Ashish Sharma 21-15, 21-14; Doubles: Bhaskar Chakraborty & Harshvardhan Bisht bt Ashish Sharma & Atul Chohan 21-19, 16-21, 21-17.

Girls under-16: Singles: Nidhi Tiwari bt Shreya Aggarwal 21-18, 18-21, 21-12; Doubles: Nidhi & Shambhavi Bajaj bt Nisha Jain & Shreya Aggarwal 21-7, 21-16.

Boys under-13: Singles: Yash Nain bt Ryan Rodrigues 21-9, 21-19; Doubles: Yash Nain & Arif Khan bt Ryan Rodrigues & Uttkarsh Arora 21-16, 21-15.

Girls under-13: Singles: Yamini Kulesh bt Gauri Asija 21-19, 21-16; Doubles: Yamini Kulesh & Rajni bt Noor Chattwal & Sanjana Sinha 21-17, 21-18.

Boys under-10: Yohaan Abraham bt Arinjay Bisht 21-14, 13-21, 23-21.

Girls under-10: Kanika Kanwal bt Diana Baruah 21-8, 21-16.

Men’s over-35: Singles: Vijay Sharma bt Rajiv Sharma 21-17, 7-21, 23-21; Doubles: Ajay Kanwar & Pankaj Pandey bt Vijay Sharma & Srikant Bakshi 24-22, 21-14.

Men’s over-40: Singles: Rajiv Sharma bt Kulwinder Pal Singh 21-15, 21-19; Doubles: Rajiv & Kulwinder bt Anoop Manocha & Umang Chopra 21-10, 21-12.

Men’s over-45: Singles: Harjit Singh bt Jitender Kumar 21-10, 21-12; Doubles: Harjit Singh & Sudhanshu Mittal bt Krishan Khurana & R. K. Batra 21-7, 21-15.

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