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Anvesh pulls off a surprise

TIRUPATI: Unseeded V. Anvesh of Nalgonda created a flutter ousting the seventh seed Anil Kumar Raju of Warangal 21-18, 18-21, 21-12 in the men’s singles first round of the AP State senior badminton championship at the Sri Srinivasa Sports Complex here on Thursday.

Anvesh, who took an 11-7 lead to win the first game, saw a determined Anil Kumar, bouncing back to draw parity in the second. In the decider, Avnesh was off a flying start and took an early 6-0 lead to ensure the exit of Anil.

Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by B. Karunakar Reddy, Chairman, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam.

The results (first round): Men’s singles: M.V.S.S. Praveen (EG) bt Gopi (Nlr) 18-21, 21-15, 21-16; Avinash (Ctr) bt Naveen Kumar ( Kna) 21-12, 21-16; Jayasimha Reddy (Mdk) bt G. Arun (Nzd) 21-11, 21-19; Arun (Ctr) bt G. Nagendra (Adl) 21-3, 21-4; Naveen (Vsp) bt Arjun Reddy (Hyd) 21-13, 21-18; Sumanth (Pra) bt Srihari (Ctr) 21-7, 21-11; Sumith Reddy (Hyd) bt Anant (Mbnr) 21-7, 21-4; C.M. Sasidhar (APBA) bt Anil Kumar (Vzm) 21-5, 21-12; Sriram (Ctr) bt Md. Khasim (Kdp) 21-12, 21-8; Pradeeh (Nlr) bt Praveen Kumar (Khm) 16-21, 21-19, 21-12; Nandagopal (Gtr) bt G. Sunil (WG) 21-14, 21-11; Aravind (Vsp) bt Ravi Ravi (Krm) 21-9, 21-10; Ravi Raj (Vsp) bt Shawn Barkley (WG) 21-9, 21-18; Radhakrishna (Knl) bt Veeraswamy (Mdk) 17-21, 21-15, 21-13; Ch. Sanyasi Rao (Vsp) bt Salman Khan (Hyd) 21-18, 21-7; Srujan (Ctr) bt Bunni (Nzd) 21-11, 21-7; Lingeswara Rao (Vsp) bt Venugopal (Nzd) 21-7, 21-8; Siya Dutt (RR) bt B. Mouli (Ctr) 24-26, 21-14, 21-12; Siva Nagendra (Kna) bt Subrahmanyam (Kdp) 21-7, 21-10; N.N. Vinayak (Hyd) B. Venkatesh (Sklm) 21-13, 21-13; Vikrant Kumar (Sklm) bt T. Nagendra (EG) 21-14, 21-16; Vijaya Kumar Reddy (Hyd) bt B. Sriharsha Vardhan (Adl) 21-11, 21-10; Vikas Harsha (Nlr) bt Gopi Raj (Gtr) 21-19, 21-9; Prasanth (Hyd) bt V. Ashok (Vzm) 21-7, 21-5; V. Anvesh (Nlg) bt Anil Kumar Raju (Wgl) 21-18, 18-21, 21-12; Rohank (Hyd) bt Tirupati (Kmnr) 21-9, 21-14.

Men’s doubles: Ramesh Naidu / Murali (APBA) bt Sri Harshavardhan / G. Nagendra (Adl) 21-4, 21-9; B. Nagaraja / Kishore Kumar (APBA) bt Yeswanth / Satanarayana (Sklm) 21-6, 21-5; Arun / Anil Kumar (APBA) bt T. Radhakrishna / Seshu (Knl) 21-8, 21-7; Naveen / Raju (Kna) bt Srinivas / Avinash (Ctr) 21-14, 22-20; Jai Jawahar / Arvind (Vsp) bt Mouli / Raheem (Atp) 21-8, 21-7; Prashanth Reddy / Tarun (APBA) bt Manideep / Nagendra (Pra) 21-11, 21-8; Nandagopal / Suresh (Gnt) bt Satyanarayan / Sirish (Ctr) 21-8, 21-13; Praveen / Vikranth (EG) bt Siyadutt / Piyush (APBA) 21-14, 23-21; Kiran Kumar / Radhakrishna (APBA) bt Ashok / Kutumbha Rao (Vzm) 21-9, 21-9; Srujan / Lokesh (Ctr) bt Sudheer / Suresh (Khm) 21-6, 21-6; Ravi Raj / Naveen (Vsp) bt Vikas / Gopi (Nlr) 21-18, 21-16.

Women’s singles (pre-quarterfinals): P.V Sindhu (Hyd) bt Naga Jyothi (Vsp) 21-5, 21-6; Jamuna Devi (Ctr) bt P. Pragnavathi (Vsp) 21-5, 21-9; Radhika Reddy (Vsp) bt Sri Harshini (Mdk) 21-6, 21-10; Aditi (Hyd) bt Suswetha (Khm) 21-8, 21-18; Sheetal Mohan Das (Ngl) bt P. Ramsy (Vzm) 21-8, 12-21, 21-16; Leelavathi (Ctr) bt Teja Sita (WG) 21-3, 21-4; A. Karuna (Hyd) bt I.Y. Sravanthi (Kna) 21-7, 10-21, 21-16; K. Aruna (Vzm) bt Lavanya (Mdk) 21-3, 21-5; P. Lavanya (Kna) bt Santoshini (Vzm) 21-14, 21-17.

R.N.S. Saketh of Little Angels School and Samuel Raj of ZPP High School (Thotada) had a five-wicket haul each on the first day of the district inter-school tournament at Ukkunagaram on Thursday. Saketh’s effort went in vain as his team lost to Visvodaya Public School by 14 runs while Samuel Raj bowled Thotada school to a 26-run win over ZPP HS, Dibbidi.

The scores: Visvodaya Public School 53 in 16.4 overs (R.N.S. Saketh five for 20) bt Little Angles School 39 in 19.5 overs (Yadav Kumar four for 14); ZPP HS, Thotada 73 in 14.2overs (Satish Kumar four for 24) bt ZPP HS, Dibbidi 47 in 6.3 overs (Samuel Raj five for 17).

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