Date:09/09/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/09/09/stories/2005090911832000.htm

Sport - Badminton

Kharbanda, Ranaut in final

NEW DELHI: Himanshu Kharbanda will take on Rohit Ranaut in the boys' under-19 final of the Delhi State badminton tournament at the Karnail Singh Stadium on Friday.

In Thursday's semifinals, Kharbanda made it easily past Vikrant Chawat but Ranaut needed three games to overpower Jitender Jain.

The results (semifinals):

Boys singles (under-10): Shaleen bt Rohan Kapoor 21-18, 21-14; Pranay Arya bt Shikhar 21-8, 21-16; (under-13): Chirag bt Akash Narang 21-7, 21-18; Jayank Ahuja bt Sangram 21-15, 21-4; (under-16): Abhishek Ahlawat bt Bharat Bajaj 21-19, 9-21, 21-18; Kaustav Das bt Piyush Jangid 21-12, 21-18; (under-19): Himanshu Kharbanda bt Vikrant Chawat 15-5, 15-6; Rohit Ranaut bt Jitender Jain 17-14, 9-15, 15-9; doubles (under-13): Hridhyanshu and Chirag bt Gagan Sharma and Ashish 21-13, 21-6; Harshvardhan Bisht and Akash Narang bt Jayank Ahuja and Gitesh Atwal 21-8, 21-16; (under-16): Bharat Bajaj and Piyush Jangid bt Raunaq Kapoor and Akash Narang 21-15, 21-10; Kaustav Das and Abhishek Ahlawat bt Rishabh Talreja and Atul Chauhan 21-17, 21-12; (under-19): Vaibhav Gupta and Himanshu Kharbanda bt Drig Bhanu and Mayank Garg 11-15, 15-4, 17-14; Guranshu Chopra and Abhinav Prakash bt Abhishek Ahlawat and Piyush Nagpal 15-12, 15-13.

Girls singles (under-10): Tanima Narang bt Somya 21-11, 21-13; Gauri Asija bt Navdisha 21-10, 21-9; (under-13): Shreya Aggarwal bt Seema Chugh 21-11, 21-10; Nidhi Tiwari bt Shambavi Bajaj 21-11, 19-21, 21-9; (under-16): Akanksha Nehra bt Jhankar Aggarwal 21-10, 21-7; Priyanka Arya bt Neetika 21-15, 21-19; (under-19): Chitralekha bt Gauri Chopra 11-5, 11-3; Akanksha Nehra bt Mohita Sahdev 11-6, 11-1; doubles (under-16): Akanksha and Priyanka bt Sanchi Madan 21-16, 21-10; Saloni Chopra and Niharka bt Neetika and Shreya Aggarwal 21-19, 21-10. — Special Correspondent