Double joy for Ashwini, Prarthana

Top seeds Ashwini Bhat and Prarthana Vasudevan partnered to complete a fine double, winning girls’ under-16 and under-14 doubles crowns in the 10th Ramesh Padukone-Mehul Sirur Memorial inter-school badminton tournament on Wednesday.

Ashwini and Prarthana beat Pooja Shree and Sree Raksha S 21-7, 21-13 to lift the under-16 title and registered an easy 21-10, 21-12 over Keerthana Shroff and Trisha Hegde to take the U-14 spoils.  Second seeds Aditya Narayan Bhat KN and Sumukh GS defeated Santrupth HV and Srinithi Mathur 21-16, 21-16 to clinch the under-10 boys’ doubles title.

Results (prefix denotes seedings): Boys: U-16: Singles, quarterfinals: 1-Akshay Srinivas bt Sri Rangarajan N 21-10, 21-11; 3-Nikhil Syam Sriram bt Waseem Khan 21-9, 21-15; 4-Saketh Upadya bt 8-Sameer Subhedhar 22-20, 22-24, 21-11; 2-Saif Ali bt 7-Amogh Ravishankar Gupta 21-12, 21-14.

Doubles, quarterfinals: 1-Nikhil Syam Sriram/ Rohan Kamath bt 6-Rohith Krishna/ Sameer Subhedhar 21-15, 21-18; 4-Ganesh Vittal G/ Kiran B bt Uday C/ Varun CR 21-10, 21-14; 3-Akshay Srinivas/ Rahul V Reddy bt 5-Ashwin Simha MK/ Harsha Vardhan M Sali 21-17, 21-12; 2-Saif Ali/ Waseem Khan bt Anil ASBP/ Anirudh Rajeev 21-16, 21-12.

U-14: Singles, quarterfinals: 1-Saketh Upadya bt 6-Amogh Ravishankar Gupta 14-21, 21-17, 21-19; 5-Vishnu R Paura bt 3-Sai Pratheek 21-12, 21-13; 8-Anirudh Rajeev bt 4-Ashwin Simha MK 21-15, 21-12; 2-Avinash S bt Srikar Rajesh 18-21, 21-14, 21-8.
Doubles, semifinals: 3-Anil ASBP/ Anirudh Rajeev bt 1-Devansh H Guliti/ Saketh Upadya 21-14, 21-13; 2-Sai Pratheek/ Shashank R bt 4-Abhishek/ Rohith  Krishna 21-17, 21-15.
U-12: Singles, quarterfinals: 5-Shivadeep Jayand bt 1-Saket CS 19-21, 21-17, 23-21; 4-Naren S Iyer bt 8-Visesh Sharma 21-15, 21-15; 3- Chinamya Venkatesh bt 7-Suhas V 21-9, 21-12; 2-Shashank V Reddy bt 6-Santhrupth HV 21-12, 21-11. Doubles, Semifinals: 1-Pranav Saale/ Suhas V bt Abhishek/ Zeeshan Ulhaque 21-11, 21-17; 2-Saket CS/ Srivatsa S Kurpad bt Armaan Mittal/ Nitin Krishna Aluru 21-15, 21-12.

U-10: Singles, semifinals: 1-Santhrupth HV bt Aditya Diwakar 21-9, 21-8; 3-Sujal Shekar bt 2-Sumukh  GS 21-17, 21-15. Doubles, final: 2-Aditya Narayan Bhat KN/ Sumukh GS bt Santhrupth HV/ Srinithi Mattur 21-16, 21-16.

Girls: U-16: Singles, semifinals: 4-Ashwini Bhat bt Khushi Sunil 21-7, 21-10; 2-Sheethal Sudarshan bt 3-Prarthana Vasudevan 21-15, 16-21, 21-12.

Doubles, final: 1-Ashwini Bhat/ Prarthana Vasudevan bt 2-Pooja Shree/ Sree Raksha S 21-7, 21-13.

U-14: Singles, quarterfinals: 6-Ramya CV bt Khushi Sunil 21-8, 21-19; 4-Trisha Hegde bt Shubha Nandeesh 21-8, 21-5; 5-Ashwini Bhat bt 3-Sheethal D 21-9, 21-10; 2-Roshni Venkat bt Ananya Praveen 21-11, 21-16.

Doubles, final: 1-Ashwini Bhat/ Prarthana Vasudevan bt 2-Keerthana Shroff/ Trisha Hegde 21-10, 21-12.

U-12: Singles, quarterfinals: 1-Richa Muktibodh bt 6-Anushka Ganesh 21-8, 21-9; 3-Tanya Hemanth bt 8-Kushi Athrya 21-10, 21-14; 4-Roshni Venkat bt 7-Ananya Praveen 23-21, 21-12; 2-Keerthana Shroff bt 5-Advika Ganesh 7-21, 21-9, 21-15. Doubles, final: 2-Richa Muktibodh/ Vijetha H bt 1-Advika Ganesh/ Anushka Ganesh 21-18, 21-10.

U-10: Singles, semifinals: 1-Vijetha H bt Shradda Hegde 21-7, 21-7; Anjali Agarwal bt Subhaga P Nitindala 21-10, 21-11.