Reshma sets up Rituparna clash in final

 Third seed Reshma Karthik of Karnataka set up a girls’ under-17 final meeting with fourth seed Rituparna Das of West Bengal in the 36th National Junior badminton championships at the Sawai Man Singh stadium here on Saturday.

Reshma had to dig deep to overcome Ruthvika Shivani G of Andhra Pradesh 17-21, 21-16, 21-16 while Rituparna eased past qualifier Karishma Wadkar of Maharashtra 21-9, 21-7 in the in the semifinal matches.

Abhishek Yeligar’s run in the boys’ under-19 category ended with second seed Rohit Yadav C of Andhra Pradesh getting the better of the Karnataka shuttler with a 21-10, 21-16 verdict.

Results (semifinals, prefix number denotes seeding):

Boys: U-19: 2-Rohit Yadav C bt 8-Abhishek Yeligar 21-10, 21-16; 1-Sameer Verma bt 4-Srikanth K 23-21, 21-11. Doubles: 1-Srikanth K/ Hemanagendra Babu T bt 4-Sriteja K/ Santosh Ravuri 21-15, 21-3; 3-Gopi Raju G/ Shivam Sharma bt 2-Naresh A/ Venkatesh B 21-18, 23-21.

U-17: 1-Aditya Joshi bt 11-Shlok Ramchandran 23-21, 19-21, 21-17; 2-Harsheel Dani bt 4-Arun George 21-19, 21-12. Doubles: 2-Chaitanya Reddy K/ Chaitanya KP bt Arjun MR/ Chirag Shetty 21-17, 13-21, 21-18; Vighnesh Devlekar/ Kaushal Dharmamer bt Sanyam Shukla/ Gangadhara Rao V 21-19, 21-19.

Girls: U-19: 1-Saili Rane bt 4-Arathi Sara Sunil 21-15, 21-16; 2-Tanvi Lad bt 5-Rituparna Das 21-16, 21-16.

Doubles: 2-Saili Rane/ Arathi Sara Sunil bt Lalita Katre/ Karishma Wadkar 21-16, 18-21, 21-16; 3-Meghana J/ Maneesha K bt 1-Ruthvika Shivani G/ Poorvisha S Ram 21-17, 21-13.

U-17: 4-Rituparna Das bt Karishma Wadkar 21-9, 21-7; 3-Reshma Karthik bt 2-Ruthvika Shivani G 17-21, 21-16, 21-16. Doubles: 1-Ruthvika Shivani G/ Poorvisha S Ram bt 3-Anoushka Parikh/ Anjali Rawat 21-11, 21-17; Meghana J/ Maneesha K bt Lalita Katre/ Karishma Wadkar 21-17, 21-10.

Mixed doubles (U-19): 1-Venkatesh B/ Ruthvika Shivani G bt 3-Pranav S/ Haritha M H 21-12, 21-8; 2-Srikanth K/ Maneesha K bt 4-Harshvardhan Bisht/ Sanskriti Chhabra 21-11, 21-13.