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Rohit, Akansha cause upsets
NEW DELHI: Rohit Ranaut upstaged second seed Tanveer Gill 21-17, 9-21, 21-17 to earn a clash with top seed Davinder Dhillon in the men’s singles final of the Delhi State badminton championship at the Karnail Singh Stadium here on Monday.
In the women’s singles, too, second seed Meenakshi Nair joined the casualty list after running into Akansha Nehra in the semifinals.
Akansha, who also made the girls’ under-19 final, plays top seed Mohita Sahdev for the ladies title.
The results: Semifinals: Men: Davinder Dhillon bt Nitin Mahiwal 21-17, 21-13; Rohit Ranaut bt Tanveer Gill 21-17, 9-21, 21-17.
Boys: Under-13: Yash Nain bt Gaurav Deswal 21-13, 21-10; Rayan Rodriges bt Ketan Suri 21-17, 21-18. U-16: Ashish Sharma bt Trinayana Lahkar 21-7, 21-18; Bhaskar Chakraborty bt Atul Chouhan 21-18, 21-17. U-19: Abhishek Ahlawat bt Bhaskar Chakraborty 21-12, 21-16; Kaustav Das bt Gauranshu Chopra 21-12, 21-16.
Women: Mohita Sahdev bt Gauri Chopra 21-3, 21-16; Akansha Nehra bt Meenakshi Nair 21-19, 21-19.
Girls: U-13: Tanima Narang bt Rajni Singh 21-12, 21-11; Yamini Kulesh bt Kanika Kanwal 21-14, 21-11. U-16: Nidhi Tiwari bt Grishma Anand 21-19, 21-6; Shreya Aggarwal bt Rashmeet Kaur 21-13, 21-13. U-19: Akansha Nehra bt Yamini Sharma 21-6, 21-15; Priyanka Arya bt Shreya Aggarwal 21-12, 15-21, 21-16.
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