Sport - Badminton

Oscar, Ritwika shown the door

Principal Correspondent

KOCHI: After shivering uncomfortably in the opening round, Chandigarh's under-16 top seed Oscar Bansal made his exit from the Indian Oil Servo RSC all-India junior ranking badminton tournament at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium here on Thursday evening.

Oscar was forced to three games by Bihar's Sonu Kumar in the first round. He lost 6-15, 1-15 to Abhimanya Singh (MP) in the pre-quarterfinals.

The under-10 girls top seed Ritwika Sivani (AP) also crashed out but she put up a gritty display before losing 8-11, 11-13 to Jay Bharathi (PBA).

The results (all pre-quarterfinals): Boys: Under-19: Jishnu Sanyal (Mah) bt Mandeep Singh (Chd) 15-4, 15-6. Under-16: Abhimanya Singh (MP) bt Oscar Bansal (Chd) 15-6, 15-1; Anup Kiran (Kar) bt Darshan Vasudev (Kar) 17-14, 15-12; Nihar Tilekan (Mah) bt Anil Kumar (AP) 15-5 (retired); Arun Nandaluri (AP) bt S. Aravind (AP) 15-9, 15-12; Prathik Patel (Guj) bt P.H. Suraj (Ker) 15-4, 15-11; Aditya Ilango (TN) bt Vikrant Kumar (AP) 17-14, 15-11; Aditya Prakash (Kar) bt Vishnu Prasad (Ker) 15-5, 11-15, 15-11; Parin Chopda (Mah) bt Amit Kataria (Mah) 15-5, 15-7. Under-13: Sai Praneeth (AP) bt H.S. Prannoy (Ker) 15-5, 15-9; Sarang Lakhani (Mah) bt Nimmoy Kher (Mah) 15-1, 15-6; Hirok Jyothi (Asm) bt Ayush Mona (Utr) 15-2, 15-7; Pradul Joshi (Utr) bt Vikas Harsha (AP) 15-7, 17-14; Deepak Bisht (Utr) bt K.R.Rahul (Guj) 15-1, 15-9; Anurag Thakkar (MP) bt Debashish Mishra (Mah) 15-12, 15-5; Pranav Chopda (Punj) bt Naresh (AP) 15-7, 15-1; Bob Sharma (Punj) bt Karthik Singh (MP) 15-0, 15-0. Under-10: Subrajeet Pal (WB) bt Karthik (AP) 15-2, 15-2; Aditya Prakash (Ker) bt Pupinder Singh (Punj) 15-12, 15-13; Shyam Prasad (Ker) bt Yuva Prithviraj (AP) 14-17, 15-3, 15-3; Aditya Joshi (Utr) bt B. Sriram (AP) 15-8, 4-15, 15-2; Upendra (AP) bt Shauvik Ghosh (WB) 11-15, 15-5, 15-8; Santhosh Ravi (AP) bt Sushrut Karmarkar (Mah) 15-7, 15-13; Arun George (Ker) bt Shlok Ramachandran (Mah) 15-2, 15-3; Seetharamulu (AP) bt Adrian George (Guj) 15-9, 15-13.

Girls: Under-19: Aparna Balan (Ker) bt J. Sruthi (AP) 11-6, 11-0; Abanthika Dekha (Asm) bt Vaidehi Dave (Guj) 11-2, 11-6; Ridhi Prajwani (Mah) bt Ruth Misha (Kar) 11-9, 11-8; Jui Agaskar (Mah) bt G.M. Nishchitha (Kar) 11-5, 8-11, 11-4; Neha Pandit (Mah) bt Neha Rane (Mah) 9-11, 11-6, 11-6; Anita Ohlem (Rly) bt Sampada Sahasra Budde (Mah) 13-12, 11-4; Sayali Gokhale (Mah) bt Rimi Hazarika (Asm) 11-3, 11-2; Saina Nehwal (AP) bt Amita Dhayinje (Mah) 11-1, 11-4. Under-13: Sikki Reddy (AP) bt Dikshita Rawat (Utr) 11-3, 11-6; Tanvilad (Mah) bt Devaki Menon (Kar) 11-1, 11-2; Vaibhavi Sabnis (Mah) bt Gauri Ghate (Mah) 11-4, 10-13, 11-9; Tanya Ravi (Kar) bt P.S.Linimol (Ker) 11-4, 13-10; Daya Elsa Jacob (Ker) bt Priyanka Anumol (AP) 11-5, 11-9; Sanyal Seshadri (WB) bt P. Lavanya (AP) 11-4, 0-11, 3-11; Uttara Prakash (Kar) bt Anjali Maria (Ker) 11-2, 11-0; Sailee Rane (Mah) bt M.Chandana (AP) 11-5, 11-8. Under-10 (quarterfinals): Jay Bharathi (PBA) bt Neha Narendran (Ker) 11-2, 10-13, 11-4; Jamuna Ravi (AP) bt Kerul Mistry (Guj) 11-4, 11-5; Vaishali Iyer (Mah) bt Meghna (AP) 11-4, 11-4; P.V. Sindhu (AP) bt Anjali Rawat (Guj, No.2) 11-3, 11-1. Pre-quarterfinal: Jay Bharathi (PBA) bt Ritwika Sivani (AP, No.1) 11-8, 13-11.

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