Prasad enters final
Top two seeds Venkatesh Prasad and Adarsh Kumar set up a title clash after coming through their respective semifinals in the Cosmopolitan Club 3-Star State-ranking badminton tournament here on Tuesday.
Prasad, seeded one, beat Abhijeet Naimpally 17-21, 21-9, 21-16 in his semifinal match while Adarsh reached the final after third seed Jagdish Yadav retired with the score reading 17-21, 18-12 in the second game.
Results: Men: Semifinals: 1-Venkatesh Prasad (KBA) bt Abhijeet Naimpally (Canara Bank) 17-21, 21-9, 21-16; 2-Adarsh Kumar S (KBA) bt 3-Jagdish Yadav (KBA) 17-21, 18-12 (retd). (Quarterfinals): Prasad bt 5-Rameswar Mahapatra (RBA) 21-17, 14-21, 21-14; Abhijeet bt 7-Suraj RN (SAI) 19-21, 21-18, 21-14; Jagdish bt 6-Kamaldeep Singh (SAI) 19-21, 21-18, 21-18; Adarsh bt Venkatesh Kamath (Manipal) 13-21, 21-17, 21-19.
Women: Semifinals: 1-Nischitha GM (KBA) bt Varsha Belawadi (KBA) 8-21, 21-8, 22-20; 2-Ruth Misha V (KBA) bt Divya A (KBA) 21-10, 21-7. (Quarterfinals): Nischitha bt Divya AJ (WPBA) 21-3, 21-4; Varsha bt Rajani Pani K (Banaswadi) 21-4, 21-5; Divya A bt Krithika Kashyap (WPBA) 21-15, 21-15; Ruth bt Swati Jain (Bangalore) 21-4, 21-0.
