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Seeds have it easy

By Our Sports Reporter

KOCHI AUG. 6. The seeds had an easy time on the opening day of the third RSC `Play for Gold' South India Open badminton tournament which began at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium here on Wednesay.

Kerala's Aparna Balan, the under-19 girls top seed, and second-seeded Varsha Belvadi (Karnataka) entered the quarterfinals without much fuss. Also entering the last eight-grade was Kerala's promising sub-junior who defeated State-mate Archana Moses.

The City Police Commissioner Vinod Thomas inaugurated the four-day event.

The results:

Men's singles (first round): C.C. Lenin (Ker) bt D. Raman (TN) 15-6, 14-17, 15-10; Aravind Sankar (Ker) bt C.M. Junith (Ker) 15-5, 15-10; Antony K. Jacob (Ker) bt Diganth Manchale (Kar) 15-3, 15-2; K.A. Anish (Ker) w.o. Phalgun (Kar); Venkitesh (TN) bt P. Anand (Ker) 15-5, 15-8; Ayyappan Krishnan (Ker) bt Hersen (Ker) 15-3, 15-6; Vineeth Manuel (Ker) bt Gauthaman (Ker) 15-4, 17-14; Anshuman Hazarika (Kar) bt Bennyson (Ker) 15-7, 15-5; V. Arun (Ker) w.o. Manuel (TN); Jerry Martin (TN) bt S. Manoj (Ker) 15-9, 15-9; Roopesh Kumar (Ker) w.o. Bobby Thomas (Ker); Savan Navaz (Kar) bt Tariq Mohammed (Ker) 15-5, 15-4; K. Madhu (Ker) w.o. Sasank (Kar).

Under-19 girls pre-quarterfinals: Aparna Balan (Ker) bt Chinthana Jayan (Ker) 11-0, 11-0; Aneesha Premnath (Kar) bt Greeshma Balakrishnan (Ker) 13-10, 11-4; Neena Lakshmi (Ker) bt Suma Suresh (Ker) 11-3, 11-3; R. Sreeju (Ker) bt Edwina Antony (Ker) 11-1, 11-2; Miral George (Ker) bt C.H. Remya Teja (AP) 11-7, 11-2; M. Sruthi (Ker) bt Archana Moses (Ker) 11-4, 11-9; Zina Ravindran (Ker) bt Manju Sasikumar (Ker) 13-10, 7-11, 11-9; Varsha Belwadi (Kar) bt Samjida Majeed (Ker) 11-2, 11-1.

Under-13 girls pre-quarterfinals: Deepa Titus (Ker) bt R.D. Divya (TN) 11-3, 11-7; Parvathy Suresh (Ker) bt K. Vidya (TN) 11-2, 11-3; G. Divya (AP) bt Linimol Stanley (Ker) 11-2, 11-2; V. Aiswarya (TN) bt Anjali (Ker) 11-1, 11-1; P.C. Thulasi (Ker) bt Nanditha Krishnan (Ker) 11-5, 11-2; Daya Elsa Jacob (Ker) bt S. Archana (TN) 11-2, 11-7; Prija Chandran (Ker) w.o. Yashica Poonacha (Kar).

Under-10 girls pre-quarterfinals: Prateeksha Prasad (TN) bt Boneetha Bose (Ker) 11-2, 11-4; V.H. Pavithra (Ker) w.o. Sree Parvathi (Ker); S. Renjini (Ker) bt Aarthi (Ker) 11-2, 11-4.

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