Savita fights her way into pre-quarters

Second seed Savita R N of WPBA overcame Siri S Gowda of Bellary 21-15, 23-25, 21-10 in the girls’ under-17 pre-quarterfinals of the 3-star State-ranking badminton tournament here on Sunday.

Results (prefix denotes seeding): Boys: U-17 (round of 32): 6-Vasishta Suresh (HHBA) bt Ashik R (Metcut) 23-21, 21-9; 5-Kiran M (WPBA) bt Rahul Prasad B (BBCE) 21-10, 17-21, 21-6; Likith Gowda (PPBA) bt Anish Upadhaye (Rajan's BA) 21-17, 22-20; 3-Lok Sainath K (BCI) bt Pranav Vasudevan (NGV) 21-19, 19-21, 21-18; Mithun Manjunath (WPBA) bt Abilash B (BBCE) 21-11, 21-15; 7-Kiran Kumar G (BBCE) bt Govardhan Shenoy (Metcut) 10-21, 21-14, 21-17; 2-Vishal R Bhat (NGV) bt Sunil Bhavimani (Gulbarga) 21-16, 21-17.

Girls: U-17 (pre-quarterfinals): 2-Savita R N (WPBA) bt Siri S Gowda (Bellary) 21-15, 23-25, 21-10; 1-Meghana Kulkarni (Belgaum) bt Chaitra Alankar (WPBA) 21-5, 21-17; 4-Neha G (Mangalore) bt Shraddha Gatt (WPBA) 21-15, 21-8; 5-Archana Pai (PPBA) bt Mernaz Irani (Belgaum) 23-21, 21-15; 8-Rachita Patil (Belgaum) bt Nikita Ramesh (Bangalore) 21-15, 21-11; 6-Harshala Dinakar (Metcut) bt Bhavya Krishnan (BBCE) 21-19, 21-8.

U-13 (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Trisha Hegde (INC) bt Riya Patke (Hubli) 21-5 21-3; 5-Prarthana Vasudevan (NGV) bt Gagana N S (Shimoga) 21-13, 21-11; 3-Shivani Pathi (I-Sports) bt Namita Amit Yalgi (Rajan's BA) 21-11, 21-13; 7-Bhavya Krishnan (BBCE) bt Vaishnavi Lokur (Rajan's BA) 21-8, 21-16; 4-Deetya Jagadish (NGV) bt Ranjani Hegde (Shinmoga) 21-17, 21-10; 6-Medha S (NGV) bt Shree Bhargavi D B (Shimoga) 21-2, 21-0; Nikita Ramesh (Bangalore) bt 2-Sheethal D (PPBA) 13-21, 21-18, 21-19.