Tejas, Medha triumph

Tejas Kallolkar and Medha Shashidharan lifted the boys’ and girls’ under-17 singles titles at the Yonex Sunrise State championship here on Thursday.

Top seeded Tejas downed Nithin HV 21-18, 21-14 in the summit clash, while third seed Medha defeated higher-ranked Drithi Yatheesh 21-17, 21-14 in the corresponding girls’ final.

Bhargav S Gowda and Nithin HV, seeded one, had to rally against Ajinkya Joshi and Tejas Kallolkar 19-21, 21-16, 21-18 en route to their title winning effort in the boys’ under-17 doubles final.

Saneeth Dayanand wore the boys’ under-15 singles crown after overcoming Naren S Iyer 21-8, 21-18.

Results (all finals): Boys’ under-17: Singles: 1-Tejas Kallolkar bt 2-Nithin HV 21-18, 21-14.

Doubles: 1-Bhargav S Gowda/Nithin H V bt 2-Ajinkya Joshi/Tejas Kallolkar 19-21, 21-16, 21-18.

U-15 singles: 1-Saneeth S Dayanand bt 2-Naren S Iyer 21-8, 21-18.

U-13 singles: 1-Ayush Shetty bt 2-Tushar Suveer 21-14, 21-4.

Girls (all singles): Under-17: 3-Medha Shashidharan bt 2-Drithi Yatheesh 21-17, 21-14.

U-15: 1-Kriti Bharadwaj bt 2-Tanya Hemanth 14-21, 21-14, 21-14.

U-13: 2-Neysa Cariappa A bt 1-Karnika Sree 21-19, 21-19.