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Bakshi shocks Kharbanda

NEW DELHI: Shrikant Bakshi used all his experience to shock second seed Himanshu Kharbanda and advance to the men’s semifinals in the Delhi State badminton championships here on Wednesday.

Bakshi, a former national runner-up, showed Kharbanda the exit door by registering a 21-12, 21-13 win.

The results: Men: Quarterfinals: Tanvir Gill bt Manmeet Singh 21-13 21-15, Davinder Dhillon bt Vijay Sharma 21-2 21-5, Rajiv Bajaj bt Rohit Ranaut 21-15 21-14, Shrikant Bakshi bt Himanshu Kharbanda 21-12 21-13. Doubles: Abhinav Prakash & Guranshu Chopra bt Ajay Kanwar & Himanshu Kharbanda 23-21 20-22 23-21, Davinder Dhillon & Praveet Gehlawat bt Gaurav Sharma & Bhuvan Sethi 21-14 21-15, Manmeet Singh & Rudra Kaushik bt Karan Kalia & Apoorv Vij 26-24 21-19, Tanvir Gill & Srikant Bakshi bt Rohit Ranaut & Nitin Mahiwal 21-16 21-12.

Women: Semifinals: Meenakshi Nair bt Rachita Sahdev 21-8 21-8, Mohita Sahdev bt Nidhi Tiwari 21-12 21-16. Quarterfinals: Mohita Sahdev bt Nupur Sachdeva 21-6 21-8, Nidhi Tiwari bt Saloni Chopra 21-14 21-7, Meenakshi Nair bt Saradha Srivastav 21-14 21-16, Rachita Sahdev bt Arpana Chauhan 21-18 21-6. D oubles: Quarterfinals: Mohita Sahdev & Meenakshi Nair bt Devi Suri & Amarjeet Kaur 21-15 21-17, Rachita Sahdev & Karishma Singh bt Arpana Chauhan & Nupur Sachdeva 10-21 21-19 21-15, Nidhi Tiwari & Shradha Srivastav bt Monika & Ashima 21-3 21-6, Saloni Chopra & Garishma Anand bt Ishani & Sakshi 21-16 21-9.

Boys: Semifinals: U-19: Ashish Sharma bt Prateek Budhiraja 21-17 21-16, Bharat Bajaj bt Rishabh Talreja 21-15 21-17. U-16: Bhasker Chakraborty bt Abhilash Sharma 21-15 21-12, Harshvardhan Bisht bt Jayant Ahuja 21-15 21-17. U-13: Gaurav Deswal bt Ankit Chikara 21-16 21-18, Rishabh Sahdev bt Utkarsh Arora 21-8 21-15.

Girls: Semifinals: U-19: Nidhi Tiwari bt Shreya Aggarwal 21-17 22-20, Priyanka Arya bt Shradha Srivastav 25-23 7-21 21-17. U-16: Shreya Aggarwal bt Sanskriti Chabra 21-15 21-3, Garishma Anand bt Shambhavi Bajaj 21-19 21-13. U-13: Kanika Kanwal bt Noor Chhatwal 21-13 21-17, Gauri Asija bt Akanshi Bulyal 21-19 21-18.