Sport - Badminton

Bajaj pips Kaustav to the final

NEW DELHI: Bharat Bajaj pipped Kaustav Das 21-10, 16-21, 23-21 in the under-19 boys semifinals of the third Pramod Mahajan memorial badminton tournament at the AIIMS Gymkhana hall here on Wednesday.

In the final, Bharat will face Ashish Sharma who got past Bhaskar Chakraborty in another lively encounter at 22-20, 17-21, 21-17.

Other results (semifinals):

Men: Shrikant Bakshi bt Devinder Dhillon 21-13, 21-19; Rudra Kaushik bt Abhinav Prakash 19-21, 21-13, 21-16.

Boys: Under-16: Abhilash Sharma bt Surinder Rathi 21-17, 21-15; Jayant Ahuja bt Nitish Arora 21-18, 21-18.

Under-13: Ankit Chikkara bt Rohan Kapoor 21-14, 21-15; Rishabh Sahdev bt Gaurav Deswal 24-22, 17-21, 21-19.

Girls: Under-19: Nidhi Tiwari bt Grishma Anand 21-14, 21-7; Shradha Srivastava bt Shreya Aggarwal 21-19, 21-11.