Date:07/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/07/stories/2008090755001800.htm

Sport - Badminton

Kanika in semifinals

NEW DELHI: Favourite Kanika Kanwal entered the girls’under-10 semifinals with a 21-0, 21-1 victory over Ashna Chanderwal in the J. D. Tytler memorial badminton tournament at the Karnail Singh Stadium here on Saturday.

The results:

Boys U-10 (pre-quarterfinals): Yohaan Abraham bt Maneesh Kanwal 21-2, 21-5; Abhay Thakur bt Jayant Srivastava 21-7, 21-13; Suraj bt Govind Mutreja 21-11, 21-13; Shivesh Luthra bt Yashvir Singh 21-6, 19-21, 21-5; Rahul Patel received a walkover from Jayant; Sidhant Chopra bt Arnav Shukla 21-4, 21-2; Naman Bhargava bt Shubham 21-10, 21-15; Deepanshu Mishra bt Anmol Khosla 21-17, 16-21, 21-11.

Girls U-10 (quarterfinals): Kanika Kanwal bt Ashna Chanderwal 21-0, 21-1; Namita Pathania bt Anamika 21-4, 21-12; Tavishi Sanghi bt Samridhi 21-2, 21-5; Diana Baruah bt Gayatri 21-2, 21-2.

Boys U-13 (second round): Gaurav Deswal bt Kapil Khatri 21-11, 21-12; Manas Sethi bt Jasmit Singh 21-3, 21-4; Rohan Kapoor bt Chirag Kapoor 21-6, 21-4; Sarthak Dahiya bt Aditya Harjai 21-9, 21-15; Nishant Dua bt Shushant 21-17, 15-21, 21-11; Shikhar Aggarwal bt Brendon Rodrigues 21-4, 21-3; Uttkarsh Arora bt Robin 21-15, 21-9.

Girls U-13 (pre-quarterfinals): Sana Sawhney bt Bhavna 21-14, 21-9; Ruguta bt Shreya Arora 21-17, 21-17; Diana Baurah bt Prerna 21-5, 21-8; Vaibhavi Yadav bt Divya Bhalla 21-11, 21-8; Palak Raj bt Ravleen Walia 21-4, 21-9; Tavishsi Sanghi bt Sumedha 21-6, 21-18; Sukriti Raili bt Nishta Dua 21-7, 21-3; Ishpreet bt Jasmeet Kaur 21-9, 24-22.