JOIN USTop seed Kartik Vyakaranam sailed into the under-13 boys’ singles quarterfinals with a breezy 21-11, 21-4 victory over Amogh Dharmavaram in the Sunlite 5-Star State-ranking badminton tournament at the KBA courts on Friday.
Results (Prefix denotes seedings): Boys’ singles: U-13: Pre-quarterfinals: 1-Kartik Vyakaranam (NGV) bt Amogh Dharmavaram (Reliance) 21-11, 21-4; 8-Rohithkrishna Moravaneni (WPBA) bt Mohit P Gowda (SAI) 21-14, 21-13; 3-Ajinkya Joshi (Belgaum) bt Rishab Rajumohan (Reliance) 21-12, 21-17; 5-Shashank Reddy V (WPBA) bt Saket CS (SNC) 21-11, 8-6 retd; Sujith BS (SAI) bt 7-Shamadeep Mandal (Reliance) 21-16, 21-8; 4-Srikar Rajesh (WPBA) bt Mayur K (PBA) 21-14, 21-13; 6-Pruthvi Roy K (DYSS) bt Bhargav S (DYSS) 21-10, 11-21, 21-19; 2-Tejas Sanjay Kallolkar (Belgaum) bt Naren Shankar Iyer (Gurukul) 21-4, 21-6.
Girls’ singles (second round): U-15: 1-Apeksha Nayak (PPBA) bt Akhila Anand (MSBA) 21-8, 21-5; Gagana NS (Shimoga) bt Sree Raksha S (KBA) 21-19, 21-14; 5-Shivani A Pathi (ECA) bt Shishira MV (WPBA) 21-6, 21-8; Dhaarini Ravikumar (Vasanth) bt Pooja Niranjan (Sri Sai) 21-6, 21-8; 4-Reenu Thirumal (NGV) bt Khushi Sunil (WPBA) 21-10, 21-3; Varsha Nagesh (BSBA) w/o Samskruthi Raj (SNC); 8-Advika Ganesh (PPBA) bt Ramya CV (Galaxy Club) 21-13, 22-20; Nethra Muthukrishnan (ECA) w/o Shravya Syamala (KBA); 7-Bhavya Krishnan (BBCE) bt Anushka Ganesh (PPBA) 21-6, 21-12; Ranjini Hegde (Shimoga) bt Navya A Karalingannavar (MFBC) 21-5, 21-9; 3-Sarayu Vyakaranam (NGV) bt Shumal Prasad (BSBA) 21-10, 21-4; Malaika B (NGV) w/o Nisha G Jammankatti (B'lore); 2-Archana Pai (PPBA) w/o Vishnu Priya Raja Krishnan (WPBA).