Date:18/11/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/11/18/stories/2005111809422000.htm

Sport - Badminton

Good day for Anup

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: It was a good day for M.D. Anup Kiran as he entered both the boys under-19 and under-16 singles finals at the Wearhouse State-ranking badminton championship at the KBA Stadium here on Thursday.

Anup defeated Shashank Sastry 21-7,21-11 and set up a title clash with B.S. Phalgun in the under-19 singles. Phalgun edged out Shashank Achar 12-21,21-19,22-20 in the second semifinal.

Reshma Karthik baggd the girls under-10 singles title with a 21-15,21-14 victory over Sangeetha Udupa.

The results:

Boys: U-19 singles semifinals: Anup Kiran bt Shashank Sastry 21-7,21-11; B.S. Phalgun bt Shashank Achar 12-21, 21-19,22-20.Doubles final : Shashank Sastry & G.M. Nandeesh bt Shashank Achar & B.S. Phalgun 21-11,21-13.

U-16 singles quarterfinals: Anup bt Vikram 21-11,21-11; K.R. Shankar bt Pratap Menon 22-20,21-13; Prakash Jolly bt Abhay Arya 21-9, 21-9; Udit Hegde bt Rahul Roshan 21-13,21-18.

U-13 singles quarterfinals: Himanshu Kotbagi bt Yashasvi Karthik 21-7,21-14; R.N. Suraj bt Shiv Nayak 21-0,21-10; Shashank Menon bt Sai Praneeth 21-5, 23-21; Soumyajit Roy bt G.K. Ashwin 21-15,21-17.

U-10 singles semifinals: M.C. Srivas bt Sharan Pillay 21-18,21-18; Shiv Nayak bt Nachiket 21-11,21-16.

Girls (all semifinals): U-19 singles: Ashwini Ponnappa bt Monisha Vinayak 11-21,21-18,21-15; G.M.Nischitha bt Saumya Padhye 21-17,21-12.

U-16 singles: Ankita Ashok bt Devaki Menon 21-5,21-9; Tanya Ravi bt K. Sonal More 21-14, 14-21,21-16.

U-13 singles: Tanya Ravi bt Uttara Prakash 21-11,21-16; Ankitha Rao bt Jacqueline Kunnath 19-21, 21-12,21-18.