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Tanvir made to sweat; Ankit wins title

NEW DELHI: Second-seeded Tanvir Gill bounced back from the loss of the first game to stop Nitin Mahiwal in the quarterfinal and stayed on course for the men’s title-clash against top-seeded Srikant Bakshi in the J.D. Tytler memorial badminton tournament at the Punjabi Bagh Club here on Thursday.

In the boys’ under-13 final, Ankit Chikara overpowered Rohan Kapoor 21-15, 21-14. In the girls’ under-19 quarterfinals, Shreya Aggarwal upstaged third-seeded Saloni Chopra in straight games.

The results: Men (quarterfinals): Srikant Bakshi bt Manmeet Singh 21-19, 21-8; Tanvir Gill bt Nitin Mahiwal 12-21, 21-6, 21-18.

Boys: U-13 (final): Ankit Chikara bt Rohan Kapoor 21-15, 21-14.

U-16 (quarterfinals): Bhaskar Chakravarty bt Trinayan Lakhar 21-13, 21-15; Harshwardhan Bisht bt Abhilash Sharma 21-15, 21-16.

U-19 (pre-quarterfinals): Ashish Sharma bt Puneet Buddhiraja 21-18, 21-11; Abhilash Sharma bt Kamaldeep Singh 21-19, 21-11; Deepak Sharma bt Bhaskar Chakravarty 21-16, 10-21, 21-13; Kaustav Das bt Sarmukh Singh 21-9, 21-10; Gagan Sharma bt Nitish Arora 21-16, 21-14; Prateek Buddhiraja bt Vikas Gupta 21-7, 21-18; Harshwardhan Bisht bt Dinesh 21-10, 21-14; Bharat Bajaj bt Jayank Ahuja 22-20, 23-21.

Girls: U-16 (semifinals): Shreya Aggarwal bt Nisha Nain 21-12, 21-11; Grishma Anand bt Ananya Nagar 21-17, 16-21, 21-12.

U-19 (quarterfinals): Nidhi Tiwari bt Ananya Nagar 21-9, 21-17; Shradha Srivastava bt Rashmeet Kaur 21-17, 22-24, 21-15; Shreya Aggarwal bt Saloni Chopra 21-17, 21-8; Priyanka Arya bt Grishma Anand 21-12, 21-11. — Special Correspondent

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