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Nidhi meets Mohita in final

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NEW DELHI: Nidhi Tiwari scored a thrilling 17-21, 21-8, 22-20 victory over Meenakshi Nair in the women’s semifinals of the third Pramod Mahajan Memorial badminton tournament at the AIIMS Gymkhana hall here on Saturday.

In the final, Nidhi will meet Mohita Sahdev who eased past Priyanka Arya in straight games.

The results:

Men (first round): Raunaq Kapoor bt Karan Kalia 21-14, 16-21, 21-18; Harshwardhan Bisht bt Sachin Rawat 21-16, 22-20; Gaurav Sharma bt Sunil Nayan 21-14, 21-13; Gauranshu Chopra bt Vikas Gupta 21-13, 21-8; Amit Sharma bt Harsh Rawat 21-9, 21-8; Satyavrat bt Sunil Kumar 21-13, 17-21, 21-13; Himanshu Kharbanda bt Bharat Bajaj 21-18, 21-14; Nitin Suman bt Javed Akhtar 21-11, 25-23; Gajendar Singh bt Amit Ahuja 21-8, 21-9; Prateek Buddhiraja bt Akash Narang 21-17, 21-6.

Women (semifinals): Mohita Sahdev bt Priyanka Arya 21-17, 21-10; Nidhi Tiwari bt Meenakshi Nair 17-21, 21-8, 22-20.

Boys: U-16 (pre-quarterfinals): Abhilash Sharma bt Adhar Bhardwaj 21-7, 21-3; Sunny Kumar bt Tushar Agarwal 21-12, 21-15; Yash Nain bt Gaurav Deswal 21-19, 21-16; Surender Rathi bt Ashish Sachdeva 21-15, 21-18; Nitish Arora bt Subhash Bansal 21-6, 21-7; Trinayan Lahkar bt Utkarsh Arora 21-11, 21-11; Ankit Chikkara bt Shaleen Thakur 21-17, 21-14; Jayant Ahuja bt Aditya Sharma 21-11, 21-15.

U-13 (quarterfinals): Ankit Chikkara bt Tarun Madan 21-11, 21-18; Rohan Kapoor bt Shikhar Agarwal 21-16, 21-17; Rishabh Sahdev bt Utkarsh Arora 14-21, 21-13, 21-10; Gaurav Deswal bt Puneet Valecha 21-15, 21-8.

U-10 (semifinals): Yohan Abraham bt Deepanshu Mishra 21-12, 21-10; Sidhant Chopra bt Rahul Patel 21-16, 21-16.

Girls: U-19 (pre-quarterfinals): Nidhi Tiwari bt Radhika Babbar 21-8, 21-13; Yamini Sharma bt Saloni Chopra 19-21, 21-18, 21-11; Priyanka Arya bt Trishla 21-1, 21-3; Grishma Anand bt Aditi Pradhan 21-1, 21-3; Rashmit Kaur bt Shambhavi Bajaj 22-20, 21-10; Ananya Nagar bt Deepisha Solanki 21-19, 21-12; Shraddha Srivastav bt Manasita Lakotia 21-2, 21-2.

U-13 (quarterfinals): Kanika Kanwal bt Sumedha 21-6, 21-9; Shajpreet Kaur bt Ritika 21-16, 19-21, 21-18; Namita bt Ashna Chandiwal 21-7, 21-5.

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