Joshi enters main draw

Air India’s Aditya Joshi registered a 21-18, 23-21 victory over Ankit Arora of Rajasthan to enter the main draw of the ONGC all-India Senior-ranking badminton tournament at the KBA courts on Wednesday.

The main draw will start at 9.30 am on Thursday.

Results (Final qualifying round): Men’s singles: Aditya Joshi (AI) bt Ankit Arora(Raj) 21-18, 23-21; Prasad Venkat Gaurav (CG) bt Rahul Yadav C (AP) 21-15, 21-18; KK Manjush Mohan (Ker) bt Amit Sharma(Del) 21-16, 21-16; Harsheel Dani (AI) bt Kanishq M (AP) 19-21, 21-19, 21-19; Shlok Ramchandran (Mah) bt Ketan Chahal (Har) 21-12, 21-11;
Jishnu Sanyal (AI) bt Amey Joshi (Mah) 21-18, 21-12; Sudhanshu Medsikar (Mah) bt Siril Varma ASS (AP) 21-15, 21-15; Dilshad K (Ker) bt Lakhwinder Singh (PNB) 21-12, 21-18.

Doubles: Abhinav Manota/ Anand Tiwari (PNB) bt Siddharth/ Kirtesh Singh (Har) 21-17, 18-21, 21-15; Joy T Antony/ KK Manjush Mohan (Ker) bt Ayush Maurya/ Mohit Tiwari (UTR) 21-12, 21-9; Vighnesh Devlekar/ Kabir Kanzarkar (Mah) bt Sudhanshu Medsikar/ Sanyam Shukla (Mah/CG) 19-21, 21-17, 21-12; Talar Laa/ Shlok Ramchandran (AI/Mah) bt Saurav Kapoor/ Varun Sharma (Har/Chg) 21-14, 21-6; Bharat Bajaj/ Rajiv Bajaj (Del) bt Sreejith R/ Vishnu R (Ker) 21-15, 19-21, 21-12; Raunaq Muradia/ Kamaldeep Singh (AP/KTK) bt Karthikey K/ Srujan Nandaluri (KTK/AP) 21-14, 17-21, 21-13; Jayan James/ Dilshad K (Ker) bt Abhishek Ahlawat/ Bahniman Borah (DLI/ASM) 21-8, 21-12; Venkatesh B/ JBS Vidyadhar (AP) bt Sahil Katlariya/ Ravijot Singh (PNB) 21-14, 21-13.

Women’s singles: Rachita Sahdev (PNB) w-o Nimmi Patel (Guj); Yamini Sharma (Del) bt Pizza Bharali (Asm) 12-21, 21-12, 21-13; Agna Anto (Ker) bt Savita RN (KTK) 21-13, 21-18; G Ruthvika Shivani (AP) bt Pallavi Sharma(MP) 21-3, 21-3; Anusha Nayak (MP) bt Ritu Vinayak (PNB) 20-22, 21-8, 21-18; Jamuna Rani R (AP) bt Jagriti Nashier (Har) 21-10, 23-21; Pooja M (AP) bt Pooja (Har) 21-15, 21-5; Aswathi S (Ker) w-o Akanshi Baliyan (Del).

Mixed doubles: A Naimpally/ T Murgunde (KTK/PET) bt Anand Tiwari/ Anubhi Khandelwal (PNB/CHG) 21-14, 21-12; Shlok Ramchandran/ Riya Pillai (Mah) bt Aditya Kiran K/ Navya Rao M (AP) 21-9, 4-2 retd; Ayush Maurya/ Sheetal Kargeti (UTR) w-o Jerry Martin M/ Vaishnavi S Iyar (TN); Manish Rawat/ Rimi Hazarika (Del/Asm) bt KK Manjush Mohan/ Kristi Das (Ker/Asm) 25-27, 21-13, 21-13; Faiz Hadees/ Shaleni Y (UP/AP) bt Prateek Saxena/ Anusha Nayak (Raj/MP) 21-8 retd; TS Bisht/ Saloni Yadav (UP/MP) bt Abhinav Prakash/ Pizza Bharali (Del/Asm) 21-15, 21-12; T Hemanagendra Babu/ Meghana J (AP) w-o Ankit Chhikara/ Jagriti Nashier (CHG/Har); Arun Pardeshi/ Pallavi Sharma (MP) w-o Roshan Jameer/ Anees Kowser J (TN).