Amogh in semifinals

 Top seed Amogh Gupta R of PPBA overcame Anirudh S Rao of Belgaum 21-11, 21-18 in the boys’ under-13 quarterfinals of the 3-Star State-ranking badminton tournament here on Monday.

Results: Boys U-13 (quarterfinals): 1-Amogh Gupta R (PPBA) bt Anirudh S Rao (Belgaum) 21-11, 21-18; 3-Rohith M WPBA bt Shamadeep Mandal (Reliance) 21-15 21-10; 2-Shantanu B S (PPBA) bt 7-Rohan Haibatti (Gulbarga) 21-8, 21-10.

Doubles (quarterfinals): 1-Avinash S (NGV)/ Shantanu B S (PPBA) bt 7-Anirudh S Rao/ Yash Patil R (Belgaum) 21-10, 21- 10; 5-Rahul Joseph/ Shamanth Kidiyoor R (Udupi) bt 3-Ajinkya Joshi/ Tejas Sanjay Kallolkar (Rajan’s BA) 21-17, 21-15; 4-Rohan Haibatti (Gulbarga)/ Sai Pratheek K (I-Sports) bt 6-Rakshit Roy/ Saketh Upadhya (WPBA) 21-10, 18-21, 21-16; 2-Amogh Gupta R (PPBA)/ Rohith M (WPBA) w/o 8-Mayur K/Pratham Singh Sablok (Hubli).

Girls U-13 (semifinals): 1-Trisha Hegde (INC) bt 3-Shivani Pathi (I-Sports) 14-21, 21-11, 21-13; Nikita Ramesh (Bangalore) bt 7-Bhavya Krishnan (BBCE) 21-17, 21-12. Doubles (semifinals): 1-Sheethal D (PPBA)/ Trisha Hegde (INC) bt 3-Deetya Jagadish/ Medha Sasidharan (3) NGV 21-16 21-11; 2-Prarthana Vasudevan (NGV)/ Shivani Pathi (I-Sports) bt 4-Namita Amit Yalgi/ Vaishnavi Lokur (Rajan's BA) 21-8, 21-14.

Boys (U-15): Doubles (quarterfinals): 1-Mithun Manjunath/Raghu M (WPBA) bt 6-Arjun Acharya/ Vishnu R Paura (Reliance) 21-16, 21-7; 3-Adithya Bhat L/ Glanish Ashley Pinto (Metcut) bt 5-Abilash B/ Rahul Prasad B (BBCE) 21-9, 21-7; 8-Akash Anvekar (Belgaum)/ Sagar Saunshi (HBA) bt 4-Rohan Haibatti Gulbarga/ Sai Pratheek K (I-Sports) 21-11, 22-20; 2-Anirudh Deshpande/ Tejaswi Sagar (WPBA) w/o 7-Nikhilshyam Sriram/ Rohan Kamath (NGV).

Girls (U-15): Semifinals: 1-Apeksha Nayak (PPBA) bt 3-Savita R N (WPBA) 21-16, 21-16; 2-Archana Pai (PPBA) bt 14-Mernaz Irani (Belgaum) 21-13, 21-13.
Doubles: Semifinals: 1-Apeksha Nayak/Archana Pai (PPBA) bt 4-Mernaz Irani/Rachita Patil (Belgaum) 21-15, 21-7; Sarayu Vyakaranam/ Sheetal Sudarshan (NGV) bt 2-Sheethal D (PPBA)/ Trisha Hegde (INC) 21-18, 21-15.

Girls (U-17): Semfinals: 7-Mira Mahadevan (Tom’s Academy) bt 5-Archana Pai (PPBA) 17-21, 21-17, 21-11; 3-Apeksha Nayak (PPBA) bt 2-Savita R N (WPBA) 21-17, 19-21, 21-19.

Doubles: Semifinal: 1-Apeksha Nayak/ Archana Pai (PPBA) bt 4-Mernaz Irani/ Rachita Patil (Belgaum) 21-15, 21-15; 3-Meghana Kulkarni (Belgaum)/ Mira Mahadevan (Tom’s) bt 2-Harshala Dinakar (Metcut)/ Neha G (Mangalore) 21-14, 21-9.