Date:14/09/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/09/14/stories/2004091401281900.htm

Sport - Badminton

Komalpreet, Sourav triumph

KOLKATA, SEPT. 13. Komalpreet Kaur of Punjab and Sourav Chatterjee of Bengal won the mini boys' and girls' singles titles on the penultimate day of the all-India junior ranking prize money badminton tournament at the SAI (Eastern Centre) here on Monday.

Komalpreet defeated Bengal's Rimita Das 13-11, 11-9 before top seed Sourav subdued Amit Dey 15-5, 15-5. Kanu Agarwal of Haryana took the sub-junior girls' singles crown outplaying top seed Pizza Bharali of Assam 11-8, 11-5.

The results:

Junior boys' singles: Semifinals: Kaushik Pal (Ben) bt Ratikanta Saha (Ben) 15-7, 15-9; Sandipan Banerjee (Ben) bt Rajeet Sengupta (Ben) 15-4, 15-2. (Doubles): Dibyajyoti Borah/Suranjan Bhobra (Asm) bt Rajeet Sengupta/Samrat Adhikari (Ben) 15-3, 15-3; K. Pal/S. Banerjee (Ben) bt Piyush Agarwal/Ajay Kumar (A.P.) 13-15, 15-7, 15-13.

Junior girls' singles: Neha Rane (Mah) bt Kanu Agarwal (Har) 13-10, 11-7; Jui Agaskar (Mah) bt Varsha V. Velwadi (Kar) 11-13, 11-0, 11-2. (Doubles final): Varsha Velwadi/Soumya Padhye (Kar) bt Jui Agaskar/Neha Rane (Mah) 15-13, 15-13.

Sub-junior boys' singles: Semifinals: Suranjan Bhobra (Asm) bt Pusan Roy (Ben) 15-10, 15-4; Dibyajyoti Borah (Asm) bt Ratikanta Saha (Ben) 15-13, 15-6. (Doubles): Borah/Bhobra bt Aditya Chakraborty/Dwaipayan Dhar (Ben) 15-1, 15-3; Saha/Ashutosh Tewari (Ben) bt Roy/Bodhipriya Pal (Ben) 15-7, 17-14.

Sub-junior girls' final: Kanu Agarwal (Har) bt Pizza Bharali (Asm) 11-8, 11-5.

Mini boys' singles: Final: Sourav Chatterjee (Ben) bt Amit Dey (Ben) 15-5, 15-5.

Mini girls': Final: Komalpreet Kaur Gandhi (Pun) bt Rimita Das (Ben) 13-11, 11-9. — Our Special Correspondent