Talar, Prashi post upset victories

Talar Laa, seeded 12th, produced a fine performance to overwhelm sixth seeded Kartikey Gulshan Kumar of Delhi 21-16, 21-17 to enter the quarterfinals in the boys’ under-19 section in the 14th Union Bank All-India Junior-ranking badminton tournament at the KBA courts here on Wednesday.

In the girls’ U-19 category, Prashi Joshi of Telangana created an upset as she rallied from a game down to beat second seed Bhavya Rishi of Air India 15-21, 21-17, 21-14 to  reach the last-eight stage.

Meanwhile, top seed Shikha Gautam of Karnataka also advanced to quarters after claiming a straight game win 21-11, 21-9 over Aarya More of Maharashtra.

Results (pre-quarterfinals): Boys singles: Under-19: 1-Chirag Sen (AI) bt 9-Aryamann Tandon (GUJ) 21-14, 21-15; 12-Talar Laa (ANP) bt 6-Kartikey Gulshan Kumar (DLI) 21-16, 21-17; 3-Mithun M (AI) bt 15-Arya Bhivpathaki (MAH) 21-11, 21-12; 7-Bodhit Joshi (UTR) bt 16-Siddharth Pratap Singh (CG) 21-14, 21-19; 13-Arintap Dasgupta (AI) bt Sanjai Srivatsa D (PY) 21-19, 21-6; 4-Lakshya Sen (UTR) bt Adithya Bapineedu G (TEL) 21-8, 21-10; 8-Sahil Sipani (KTK) bt Yash Yogi (CG) 21-5, 21-15; Abhyansh Singh (UP) bt Tapas Shukla (UP) 19-21, 21-18, 21-15.

Under-17: 1-Lakshya Sen (UTR) bt 14-Aniruddha Mayekar (MAH) 21-4, 21-14; 5-Kiran George (KER) bt 9-Sanjay Thakur (MP) 21-15, 21-17;  Rahul Patel (DLI) bt 10-Sayam Bothra (TEL) 21-10 21-14; 12-Abhyansh Singh (UP) bt 7-Rishabh Deshpande (MAH) 21-18, 17-21, 21-16; 6-Arya Bhivpathaki (MAH) bt 16-D Jaswanth (AP) 21-23, 24-22, 21-18; 4-Kartikey Gulshan Kumar (DLI) bt Lauhit P (TEL) 21-12, 21-17; 8-Adithya Bapineedu (TEL) bt 15-Veda Vyas Sai Anumula (AP) 21-19 10-21 21-16; 2-Arintap Dasgupta (AI) bt Manan Jain (RAJ) 21-16, 21-7.

Girls singles: Under-19: 1-Shikha Gautam (KTK) bt Aarya More (MAH) 21-11, 21-9; 8-Anura Prabhudesai (AI) bt Priyanka Kumawat (RAJ) 21-18, 21-11; 4-Kanika Kanwal (AI) bt Mahima Aggarwal (KTK) 13-21, 22-20, 21-15; 7-Ashmita Chaliha (ASM) bt Apeksha Nayak (KTK) 18-12 (ret); 5-Riya Mookerjee (UP) bt Archana Pai (KTK) 21-19 21-14; Aakarshi Kashyap (CG) bt 3-Malavika J K (KER) 21-12, 21-15; Vaidehi Choudhari (MAH) bt 6-Tanishq M (AP) 21-13, 21-14; Prashi Joshi (TEL) bt 2-Bhavya Rishi (AI) 15-21, 21-17, 21-14.

Under-17: 1-Ashmita Chaliha (ASM) bt Mithula U K (KTK) 21-9, 21-14; Aakarshi Kashyap (CG) bt Rashi Lambe (MAH) 21-15, 21-15; 4-Tanishq M (AP) bt Archana Pai (KTK) 17-21, 21-19, 21-12; Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka (TEL) bt Unnati Bisht (UTR) 21-19 17-21 21-11; 6-Bhavya Rishi (AI) bt Nivetha M (TN) 21-14, 21-8; 3-Vaidehi Choudhari (MAH) bt Nivedha Srinivasan (PY) 21-12, 21-17; 8-Prashi Joshi (TEL) bt Nishita Varma Pakalapati (AP) 21-13, 21-12; 2-Kanika Kanwal (AI) bt Ananya Goel (DLI) 19-21, 21-9, 21-9.