Date:09/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/09/stories/2008090957342000.htm

Sport - Basketball

Kanika is champion

NEW DELHI: Favourite Kanika Kanwal expectedly tamed second seed Diana Baruah 21-8, 21-17 to win the girls’ under-10 title in the J.D. Tytler Memorial badminton tournament at the Punjab Bagh Club here.

Diana, seeded three in the girls’ under-13 section, went on to join fourth seed Akanshi on the casualty list after a three-game defeat. In the quarterfinals, unseeded Vaibhavi Yadav carved out a 21-15, 12-21, 21-19 victory over Diana, while Palak Raj tamed Akanshi 21-16, 21-17.

The results: Boys: U-10 (semifinals): Yohaan Abraham bt Sidhant Chopra 21-18, 21-16; Rahul Patel bt Suraj Negi 21-14, 21-19.

U-13 (pre-quarterfinals): Gaurav Deswal bt Sarthak Dahiya 21-12, 21-13; Rohan Kapoor bt Siddharth Choudhary 21-4, 21-10; Shikhar Aggarwal bt Nishant Dua 21-13, 21-11; Uttkarsh Arora bt Arjun Kaura 21-19, 21-13; Rishab Sahdev bt Prabhav 21-9, 21-4; Tarun Dhillon bt Kalagya 21-8, 21-11; Ankit Chikara bt Abhijeet Mehta 21-8, 21-17; Puneet Walecha bt Jatin 21-14, 21-19.

U-16 (second round): Bhaskar Chakravarty bt Rishab Batra 21-9, 21-7; Rishabh Sahdev bt Akash Sharma 21-8, 21-6; Sunny Kumar bt Sahil Gupta 21-14, 21-7; Ryan Rodrigues bt Sanjit Singh 21-6, 21-3; Jayank Ahuja bt Tajinder Pal Singh 21-5, 21-11; Tushar Aggarwal bt Sumit Chaudhary 21-9, 21-10; Nitish Arora bt Gaurav Deswal 21-5, 21-8; Sachin Gandhi bt Uttkarsh Arora 21-13, 21-14; Yash Nain bt Vikas Jain 21-5, 21-1; Deepanshu Sharma bt Ankit Arya 21-5, 21-5; Abhilash Sharma bt Sanchet 21-7, 21-3; Ankit Chikara bt Kadam 21-11, 21-9; Aditya Sharma bt Rishab Kochar 21-13, 21-19; Rohan Kapoor bt Naman Ahuja 21-13, 12-21, 21-19; Harshwardhan Bisht bt Hitesh 21-7, 21-8.

Girls: U-10 (final): Kanika Kanwal bt Diana Baruah 21-8, 21-17.

U-13 (quarterfinals): Gauri Asija bt Ruguta 21-17, 21-12; Vaibhavi Yadav bt Diana Baurah 21-15, 12-21, 21-19; Palak Raj bt Akanshi 21-16, 21-17; Kanika Kanwal bt Shivika Nehra 21-9, 21-9.

U-16 (first round): Jaisleen Kaur bt Iti Sharma 21-12, 21-11; Gauri Asija bt Aparjita 21-8, 22-20; Vimla Sachdeva bt Blooty 22-20, 21-17; Yamini Kulesh bt Urvashi Bhatia 21-0, 21-1; Shreya Suri bt Aksha Verma 21-11, 21-10; Nisha Nain bt Lochan 21-16, 21-12; Chavi Gulati bt Varsha Dahiya 20-22, 21-15, 21-9; Ananya Nagar bt Harshita Lalwani 21-2, 21-3; Gagandeep Kaur bt Anjali Sharma 21-11, 21-14; Shambhavi Bajaj bt Rujuta 21-4, 21-3; Shruti Sridhar bt Sanjana 21-11, 21-14; Rashmeet Kaur bt Nitika Aggarwal 21-13, 21-13.