Saif defeats Harsh to enter quarters

Top seed Saif Ali encountered little resistance before dispatching Harshavardhan Sali M en route to the boys’ singles under-15 quarterfinals in the SBI Bowring Institute 5-Star badminton tournament here on Sunday.

Ali registered a 21-8, 22-20 win in the pre-quarterfinals.

Results: Boys: Under-15 singles (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Saif Ali bt Harshavardhan Sali M 21-8, 22-20; Vikhyath MR bt 6-Avinash S 21-15, 21-17; 3-Nikhit Laxman bt Atharva Moghe 21-12, 21-14; Abhiram K bt Uday C 21-9, 21-18; Sourav Yadav bt Saneeth Dayanand S 21-10, 21-17; 4-Saketh Upadhya bt Shamanth Rao Kidiyoor 21-16, 21-11; 5-Kevin ML bt Kiran B 21-15, 21-12; 2-Nikhilshyam Sriram bt Vishnuh Paurah R 16-21, 21-16, 21-17.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Kevin ML/ Nikhit Laxman bt 4-Arjun/ Uday C 21-12, 21-13; 6-Abhiram K/ Vikhyath MR bt 10-Ashwin Simha/ Harshavardhan Sali M 23-21, 23-21; 4-Amogh R Gupta/ Saketh Upadhya bt 15-Naren Shankar Iyer/ Suhas 21-6, 21-10; 11-Ankur Sinha/ Sourav Yadav bt 5-Kiran B/ Waseem Khan G 21-18, 21-19; 7-Migil Yogananda/ Srikar Rajesh bt 16-Nikhil Desai V/ Nithin HV 21-13, 21-17; 3-Avinash S/ Sai Pratheek K bt Kushal/ Rakshit MK 21-12, 21-7; 12-Arjun A/ Prithvi Niranjan bt 8-Ganesh Vittalji/ Rahul Reddy 21-16, 21-19; 2-Nikhilshyam Sriram/ Saif Ali bt 9-Abu Tahir Nadaf/ Mayur K 21-16, 21-15.
Under-13 singles (pre-quarterfinals): Naren Shankar Iyer bt Tejas CG 21-14, 21-13; 6-Chinmaya Venkatesh bt Tejas Suresh 21-11, 21-7; 4-Shashank Reddy V bt Tejas S 21-11, 21-7; Saneeth Dayanand S bt Vasthav Ganapathy 21-11, 21-17; Suhas bt 5-Rohithkrishna Moravaneni 22-20, 19-21, 21-17; 3-Pruthvi Roy K bt Sujal Shekar 21-16, 21-7; 8-Rohit M bt Shivdeep Jayanth 21-11, 21-13; 2-Srikar Rajesh bt Ritvik Swaminathan 21-5, 21-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): 5-Santrupth HV/ Sujal Shekar bt Aditya Diwakar/ Santhas K 21-10, 21-12; 4-Chinmaya Venkatesh/ Srikar Rajesh bt 8-Mayur CS/ Saneeth Dayanand S 21-13, 21-8; 3-Pruthvi Roy K/ Saket CS bt 6-Naren Shankar Iyer/ Suhas 21-16, 21-17; 2-Rohithkrishna Moravaneni/ Shashank Reddy V bt Tejas CG/ Vasthav Ganapathy 21-11, 21-7.
Girls: Under-15 doubles (quarterfinals): 1-Sheethal D/ Trisha Hegde bt Dithya/ Sakshi 21-12, 21-5; 3-Dhaarini Ravikumar/ Ramya CV bt Chinmayee G Jammanakatti/ Nisha G Jammankatti 21-16, 21-11; 4-Nethra Muthukrishnan/ Tanya Hemanth bt Parineetha/ Surabhi 21-5, 21-3; Ashwini Bhat K/ Mithula UK bt 2-Gagana NS/ Ranjini Hegde 21-12, 21-9.
Under-13 doubles (quarterfinals): 1-Sheethal D/ Trisha Hegde bt Khushi Sunil/ Shishira MV 21-5, 21-1; 4-Advika Ganesh/ Anushka Ganesh bt Ananya Praveen/ Shruti Moghe 21-8, 21-16; 2-Keerthana Shroff P/ Tanya Hemanth bt Ananya/ Anusha Thaly 21-7, 21-8.