Aditya, Ajay in quarterfinals

Sixth seed Aditya Prakash and seventh seed Ajay Jayaram moved into the men’s quarterfinals of the PSPB inter-unit badminton tournament at the KBA courts here on Friday.

Aditya of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited outclassed Saurabh Singh of Gas Authority of India Limited 21-7, 21-8 while Jayaram of Indian Oil Corporation Limited eased past Ravinder Singh of GAIL 21-6, 21-15 in their respective  pre-quarterfinals.
Results (prefix denotes seeding):

Men (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Srikanth K (IOCL) bt Ankur Barua (OIL) 21-6, 21-6; 5-Prannoy H S (ONGC) bt Anup Sridhar (BPCL) 6-11 (retired); 4-Sourabh Verma (ONGC) bt Krishna S D S (OIL) 21-11, 21-8; 7-Ajay Jayaram (IOCL) bt Ravinder Singh (GAIL) 21-6, 21-15; 8-Subhankar Dey (HPCL) bt Chetan Anand (ONGC) 21-11, 21-14; 3-R M V Guru Sai Dutt (IOCL) bt Hirakjyoti Neog (OIL) 21-19, 21-16; 6-Aditya Prakash (BPCL) bt Saurabh Singh (GAIL) 21-7, 21-8; 2-Sai Praneeth B (ONGC) bt Tarun Kona (IOCL) 22-20, 21-9.

 Doubles (quarterfinals): 1-Arun Vishnu/ Tarun Kona bt Prannoy H S/ Sai Praneeth B 22-20, 11-21, 24-22; 4-Amit Singh/ Ravinder Singh w/o Anup Sridhar/ Arvind Bhat; 3-Eshan Naqvi/ Subhankar Dey w/o Hemanagendra Babu/ Srikanth K; 2-Diju V/ Rupesh Kumar K T bt Palwinder/ Vivek Awasthi 21-2, 21-5.

Women (quarterfinals): 1-Thulasi P C (ONGC) w/o Dalima Singh (GAIL); 3-Trupti Murgunde (IOCL) bt Keerti (EIL) 21-3, 21-3; 4-Arundhati Pantawane (ONGC) bt Madhu Gupta (EIL) 21-4, 21-2; 2-Tanvi Lad (IOCL) bt Maya Dasrat (GAIL) 21-0, 21-4.
Doubles (semifinals): 1-Aparna Balan/ Prajakta Sawant w/o Arundhati Pantawane/ Ruthvika Shivani G; 2-Ashwini Ponnappa/ Thulasi P C w/o Dalima Singh/ Iti Bansal.