Date:14/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/14/stories/2008101455932200.htm

Sport - Badminton

Kharbanda goes down fighting

NEW DELHI: Himanshu Kharbanda went down fighting 21-13, 20-22, 20-22 to Rudra Kaushik in a men’s singles pre-quarterfinal match of the Passion Club badminton tournament here on Monday.

The results (pre-quarterfinals):

Boys: Kaustav Das bt Vaibhav Kotnala 21-10, 21-7; Rounaq Kapoor bt Prateek Budhiraja 21-14, 10-21, 21-16; Harshvardhan Bhist bt Jayank Ahuja 21-19, 21-15; Bhaskar Charkraborty bt Vikash Gupta 21-8, 21-11; Bharat Bajaj bt Akash Narang 21-5, 21-14; Ashish Sharma bt Deepak Sharma 21-6, 21-17; Nitish Arora bt Gagan Sharma 21-17. 21-17; Abhilash Sharma bt Trinayan Lahkar 21-11, 21-10.

Women: Mohita Sahdev bt Kajal Kapoor 21-5, 21-5; Priyanka Arya bt Kusum Chopra 21-7, 21-5; Meenakshi Nair bt Yamini Sharma 21-12, 17-21, 21-9; Shreya Aggarwal bt Shraddha Srivastava 21-17, 21-18; Gauri Chopra bt Saloni Chopra 16-21, 21-17, 21-16; Rachita Sahdev bt Radhika Babbar 21-12, 21-12; Nidhi Tiwari bt Rajni Wazir 21-12, 21-5; Shubhi Prakash bt Sunita Rawat 21-5, 21-5.

Men: Davinder Dhillon bt Sagar Pandit 21-9, 21-14; Vijay Sharma bt Apoorv Vij 21-16, 21-16; Rudra Kaushik bt Himanshu Kharbanda 13-21, 22-20, 22-20; Sachin Rawat bt Ashish Sharma 21-12, 21-18; Rajiv Bajaj bt Gaurav Sharma 21-14, 21-18;

Tanvir Gill bt Deepak Sharma 21-13, 21-19; Abhinab Prakash bt Bharat Bajaj 21-10, 21-15; Srikant Bakshi bt Nitin Mahiwal 22-20, 25-23.