Nirmith gets better of battling Shashank

Shashank won the first game rather comfortably 21-12 but failed to maintain the same flow as Nirmith pocketed the next two games 21-14, 21-17 to emerge the victor.Most of the second-round matches in the under-13 section were largely one-sided affairs, though Rohan Kamath had to put his best foot forward to stop Shantanu BS.

Shantanu took the first game 21-17, but Kamath then pulled up his socks to fairly run through the match after that as he eventually came through 17-21, 21-10, 21-13.
Results: Boys’ singles, under-13 (II round): Mithun Manjunath bt Ajinkya Joshi 21-3, 21-2; Nakul N Rao bt Pratham K 21-11, 21-13; Sagar N Saunshi bt Amogh R Gupta 21-9, 21-16; Abhishek R bt Shashank Udupa 21-11, 21-14; Rohan Kamath bt Shantanu BS 17-21, 21-10, 21-13; Tejaswi Sagar bt Tejas Kallolkar 21-7, 21-13; Sai Prateek bt Rishab Rajumohan 21-7, 21-15.

Raghu M bt Vishnu R Paura 21-11, 21-13; Akash V Anvekar bt Nirmith Kaushik 21-5, 21-10; Rahul Bharadwaj bt Praveen 21-10, 21-10; Abi Amudan bt Harshith LU 21-10, 21-0; Syed Saad Ali bt Mohith Gowda 21-6, 21-10.

Under-16 (I round): Darshan Hegde bt Atharva 21-7, 21-4; Vasishta Suresh bt Syed Saad Ali 21-15, 21-17; Shri Poorna Purohit bt Rahul Shenoy 21-10, 21-15; Sahil Sipani bt Yuvraj Shinde 21-5, 21-13; Akashraj Murthy bt Litesh Reddy 21-8, 21-13; Akshay MS bt Rahul B Prasad 21-17, 27-25; Apoorva D bt Subramanya 21-12, 21-9; Pradyumna K bt Vinayak N Uppund 21-6, 21-10; Nirmith Kaushik bt Shashank K 12-21, 21-14, 21-17; Jaswanath Gowda bt Vignesh S 21-14, 21-8.