Kiran marches into semifinal

Second seed Kiran B scored a convincing 21-11, 21-11 win over Saketh Upadhya to march into the boys’ under-19 semifinals in the Indian Gymkhana State-ranking badminton tournament for Sub-juniors and juniors here on Tuesday.

Results (prefix denotes seeding, all quarterfinals): Boys: U-19: 5-Mayuresh Janpandit bt Rohit M 21-13, 21-14; 4-Abi Amudan S bt 6-Ganesh Vittalji 18-21, 21-11, 21-11; 3-Sai Pratheek K bt Bhargav S Gowda 21-9, 21-18; 2-Kiran B bt Saketh Upadhya 21-11, 21-11. U-17: 1-Tejas Kallolkar bt 5-Saneeth DS 21-15, 21-11; Srikar Rajesh 3-bt Bhargav S Gowda 10-21, 25-23, 21-14; Shashank H N bt 4-Pruthvi Roy K 21-18, 11-21, 21-19; 2-Nithin H V bt 7-Saket C S 21-16, 21-15. U-15: 1-Saneeth D S bt 7-Ayush Shetty 21-16, 21-17; 4-Suhas V bt 6-Jayanth G 21-18, 21-19; 5-Chiranjeevi Reddy S bt 3-Vishesh Sharma 21-15, 21-14; 2-Naren S Iyer bt Prithvi Bapna 21-7, 21-13. U-13: 1-Ayush Shetty bt Anish M Vasanth Kumar 21-9, 21-8; 7-Satvik Shankar bt 4-Nicholas Nathan Raj 21-17, 21-16; 3-Sumukh GS bt 6-Adithya Pradeep 21-15, 21-11; 2-Tushar Suveer bt 8-Lava T  Vadakal 21-13, 21-18.

Girls: U-19: 1-Deepthi Ramesh bt 7-Dharini Ravikumar Rajarathnam 21-16, 21-11; 3- Ramya C V bt 6-Jayashree G 21-13, 21-7; 4-Drithi Yatheesh bt Akhila Anand 21-13, 21-7 ; 2-Trisha Hegde bt 5-Prerana N S 21-10, 21-11. U-17: 1-Trisha Hegde bt 5-Ananya Praveen 21-13, 21-14; 3-Drithi Yatheesh bt Ramya CV 21-17, 21-13; 8-Tanya Hemanth bt 4-Keerthana P Shroff  21-18, 21-17; 2-Medha Shashidharan bt Shraddha Hegde 21-11, 21-7. U-15: 1-Kriti Bharadwaj bt 5-Vijetha Harish 21-15, 21-11; 3-Janani Ananthakumar bt 7-Arundathi N Muddhu 21-13, 21-13; 4-Shraddha Hegde bt Gloria V Athavale 21-10, 21-14; 2-Tanya Hemanth bt 6-Varsha Bhat 21-12, 21-18. U-13: 1-Neysa Cariappa A bt Gauri V Rao 21-19, 21-10; 3-Karinka Sree S bt 7-Jayantika Rathore 21-13, 12-21, 21-16; 4-Riddhi Sunil Shah bt 5-Anannya Joishy 23-21, 21-12; 2-Gayathri Rani Jaiswal bt Anvitha Narender 21-7, 21-17.