JOIN USTop seed Sankeerth B R eased to a 21-16, 21-17 victory over Raghu M to advance to the under-19 boys’ singles second round in the Legacy Hollyhock 5-Star State-ranking badminton tournament at the KBA courts on Thursday.
Results (prefix denotes seedings): Boys singles (first round): U-19: 1-Sankeerth BR (NGV) bt Raghu M (WPBA) 21-16, 21-17; 16-Vishwanath Kiran B (MA) bt Subrahmanya NG (JAIN) 21-12, 21-18; 6-Hemanth M Gowda (SAI) bt Syed Saad Ali (PPBA) 15-21, 21-19, 21-16; 9-Arun Rai (WPBA) bt Rahul B Prasad (BBCE) 21-17, 21-19; Shankarnarayan (Reliance) bt 4-Kiran M (WPBA) 21-15, 7-21, 21-16; 10-Kiran Kumar G (BBCE) bt Clifford Jabamani (ECA) 21-12, 21-18; 5-Madhusudhan M (MSBA) bt Muddappa KG (Mangalore) 21-19, 21-19; 15-Vaibhav (SAI) bt Vineet Krishna Borsu (Vasanth) 21-17, 21-7; 13-Vasantha Kumar HR (SAI) bt Abhishek Gowda (Jain) 21-8, 21-14; 8-Mithun Manjunath (WPBA) bt Akhilesh Moktalli (Hubli) 21-12, 21-10; Sudeep Suresh (B’lore) bt 12-Chethan Raj (Tom's) 21-10, 21-15; 3-Loksainath (BBCE) bt Kashinath KH (HBA) 21-10, 21-6; Manish Jain (WPBA) bt 14-Raju K (MSBA) 21-17, 21-19; 7-Harrshit Agarwaal (PPBA) bt Vimelesh Shet (Metcut) 21-6, 21-10; Manjesh CS (Vasanth) bt 11-Mahesh Kumar D (Metcut) 21-19, 11-7 retd; 2-Yuvaraj Shinde (SAI) bt Govardhan Shenoy (Metcut) 21-14, 21-14.
U-17: 12-Likhith A Gowda (CUCT) bt Praveen Reddy D (HHBA) 21-13, 21-17; 13-Saif Ali (SEA) bt Srikar Rajesh (WPBA) 21-17, 21-15; Anish Upadhaya (Rajan Mohire) bt 14-Abilash B (BBCE) 21-15, 21-18; 10-Siddarth ES (ECA) bt Vivian Sequeira (WPBA) 21-8, 21-15; Gajanand Walikar (Jain) w/o 15-Akshay Srinivas (NGV); 9-Govardhan Shenoy (Metcut) bt Siddarth Shirodkar (Rajan Mohire) 21-10, 12-21, 21-15; Balraj Kajla (AF) bt 11-Sager N Saunshi (HBA) 21-16, 19-21, 22-20; Pradyumna Kulkarni (Tom’s) bt 16-Visnuh R Paura (Reliance) 21-15, 21-12.
Girls singles (U-19, first round): Neha NK (WPBA) w/o Amrutha BS (Shimoga); Aashi Gupta (NGV) bt Soundarya (WPBA) 21-7, 21-5; Archana Pai (PPBA) bt Harshitha P (MSBA) 21-11, 21-11; Nagashree B Iyengar (KBA) bt Shishira (WPBA) 21-9, 21-13; Mithula UK (PPBA) bt Urmika (WPBA) 21-4, 21-2; Ranjeetha Shoukhand (HHBA) bt Sreeraksha S (MSBA) 21-11, 21-12.
U-17: Ranjani Hegde (Shimoga) bt Sreeraksha S (MSBA) 21-16, 21-13; Neha NK (WPBA) bt Sagaarika A (Woodrose) 21-11, 21-9; Mithula UK (PPBA) w/o Navya Shree HS (JPS); Poojashree (HHBA) bt Sinchana MN (B’lore) 21-2, 21-6; Judith (MSBA) bt Urmika (WPBA) 21-8, 21-11; Sharanya R (D'S) w/o Divya Shree K M (JPS); Sarayu Vyakaranam (NGV) bt Prathibha HG (Shimoga) 21-13, 21-9; Ranjeetha Shoukhand (HHBA) bt Vidisha Reddy A (MSBA) 21-8, 21-7; Soundarya (WPBA) w/o Amrutha BS (Shimoga); Aashi Gupta (NGV) w/o Kusuma M (JPS); Prathiksha Prakash (Mangalore) bt Shishira (WPBA) 21-10, 21-3.