Mohit, Trisha cause upsets to clinch titles

On a day of upsets, top seeds Tejas Kallolkar and Shivani A Pathi lost the boys’ and girls’ under-15 singles finals respectively in the Ramaiah Rajan Sub-junior State-ranking badminton tournament on Tuesday.

Tejas, despite winning the first game rather comfortably, went down to fifth seed Mohit Gowda Palaksha 15-21, 21-18, 21-16.

It was a similar story in the under-15 girls’ final as third seed Trisha Hegde fought back from a game down to oust top-seeded Shivani 20-22, 21-16, 21-8.

Results (all finals) (prefix denotes seedings): Boys: U-15 singles: 5-Mohit Gowda Palaksha bt 1-Tejas Kallolkar 15-21, 21-18, 21-16.

Doubles: 1-Ajinkya Joshi/ Tejas Kallolkar bt 3-Pruthvi Roy K/ Saket CS 21-15, 21-17.
U-13 singles: 1-Naren S Iyer bt 4-Saneeth S Dayanand 21-14, 19-21, 21-18.

Doubles: 1-Suhas V/ Vishesh Sharma bt 5-Sumukh GS/ Tushar Suveer 20-22, 29-27, 21-13.

Girls: U-15 singles: 3-Trisha Hegde bt 1-Shivani A Pathi 20-22, 21-16, 21-8.

Doubles: 1-Drithi Yatheesh/ Trisha Hegde bt 4-Sheethal D/Shivani A Pathi 21-12, 21-18.
U-13 singles: 3-Kriti Bharadwaj bt 2-Vijetha Harish 21-14, 21-10.

Doubles: 1-Kriti Bharadwaj/ Tanya Hemanth bt 2-Janani Ananthkumar/ Shraddha Hegde 21-14, 21-14.