Date:14/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/14/stories/2008091456361800.htm

Sport - Badminton

Dhillon shocks Bakshi

NEW DELHI: Davinder Dhillon upstaged top seed and former National runner-up Srikant Bakshi 21-15, 21-5 to enter the men’s singles final of the J. D. Tytler memorial badminton tournament at the Punjabi Bagh Club here.

In Sunday’s final, Dhillon will face Tanvir Gill who fought back from the brink of defeat to down Himanshu Kharbanda 21-18, 17-21, 24-22. The women’s final will be between Mohita Sahdev and Nidhi Tiwari.

The results (All semifinals): Men singles: Davinder Dhillon bt Srikant Bakshi 21-15, 21-5; Tanvir Gill bt Himanshu Kharbanda 21-18, 17-21, 24-22; (quarterfinals): Kharbanda bt Rajiv Bajaj 21-8, 21-9; Dhillon bt Rohit Ranaut 16-21, 22-20, 21-4.

Women singles: Mohita Sahdev bt Rachita Sahdev 21-6, 21-10; Nidhi Tiwari bt Priyanka Arya 21-12, 21-13.

Boys singles U-19: Kaustav Das bt Ashish Sharma 21-15, 21-17; Bharat Bajaj bt Gagan Sharma 21-12, 21-13;

Boys doubles U-16: Bhaskar Chakravarty and Harshwardhan Bisht bt Sunny Kumar and Tushar Aggarwal 21-18, 21-7; Abhilash Sharma and Trinatyan bt Jayank Ahuja and Nitish Arora 19-21, 22-20, 22-20.

Boys doubles U-13: Ankit Chikara and Gaurav Deswal bt Amogh and Ksitij Anand 21-14, 21-10;

Girls singles U-19: Shreya Aggarwal bt Priyanka Arya 21-9, 21-15; Shradha Srivastava bt Nidhi Tiwari 21-19, 11-21, 21-19.

Girls doubles U-13: Diana Baruah and Ragheswari Mehta bt Gauri Asija and Shivika Nehra 21-19, 21-19; Kanika Kanwal and Akanshi bt Rujuta and Tavishi Sanghi 21-11, 21-7.