Aggarwal, Daniel make progress

 The Karnataka duo of Harshit Aggarwal and Daniel S Farid reached the under-17 boys’ third round in the 36th National Junior badminton championships at the Sawai Man Singh stadium here on Wednesday.

Harshit, the 14th seed, outclassed Srijan Saini of Himachal Pradesh 21-14, 21-9 in a second-round match that lasted just 17 minutes while State-mate Daniel, who made it to the main draw through the qualifiers, eased past Akshay Shekhawat of Rajasthan 21-5, 21-12 in 20 minutes.

Results (prefix number denote seedings):
Boys: U-19 (second round): 8-Abhishek Yeligar bt Arun George 21-17, 21-10; 1-Sameer Verma bt Kandarp Chaubey 21-7, 21-5; Hemanagendra Babu T bt Kavish Mody 21-13, 21-17; 5-Subhankar Dey bt Sudarsan AK 21-12, 21-8; 16-Devansh Jaiswal bt Kenneth Wong 21-9, 21-15; Tushar Aggarwal bt Ranjan Narayanan E 21-17, 21-15; Talar Laa bt Rajat Joon 21-13, 21-9; 6-Gopi Raju G bt Rana Boruah 16-21, 21-15, 23-21.

U-17 (second round): Daniel S Farid bt Akshay Shekhawat 21-5, 21-12; 14-Harshit Aggarwal bt Srijan Saini 21-14, 21-9; 1-Aditya Joshi bt Aman Kumar 16-21, 21-8, 21-10; 13-Talar Laa bt Sahil Sipani 21-8, 22-20; 4-Arun George bt Saish Uttam Salelkar 21-5, 21-13; 5-Arshalan Naqvi bt Simerdeep Singh Bagga 21-15, 21-18.

Girls: U-19 (first round): Karma Meena bt Puja Kamei 21-6, 21-6; Sanchali Dasgupta bt Pinky Karki 21-9, 21-13; Anuriya Das bt Aditi Mahajan 21-12, 21-7; Reshma Karthik bt Komal Antil 21-8, 21-6; Aditi Anand Kailash bt 21-18, 15-21, 21-12; Pooja M bt Ruby Singh 21-8, 21-9; Leela Lakshmi R bt Najma Khan 21-11, 19-21, 21-17.

Girls: U-17 (first round): Mahima Aggarwal bt Harlivleen Bhatti 21-5, 21-1; 3-Reshma Karthik bt Riya Mookerjee 21-15, 21-19; Arsheen Syed Saadath bt Shenan Christian 21-14, 21-13; Sindhu Bhardwaj bt 5-Anjali Rawat 21-11, 21-18; 4-Rituparna Das bt Rupsa Ghosh 21-9, 21-5; 8-Sara Naqvi bt Aditi Anand 21-14, 21-12; 7-Vijetha K bt Megha Rattan 21-7, 21-7; 6-Rasika Raje bt Deuyani Balwada 21-2, 21-5; 2-Ruthvika Shivani G bt Anura Prabhudesai 21-7, 21-6.