Aryan Talwar and Kabir Barot scored contrasting victories to advance into the quarter-final round of the boys’ under-13 singles event of the of the Bombay Gymkhana-IndusInd Bank Sub-Junior Badminton Tournament 2019, organized by Bombay Gymkhana under the aegis of the Greater Mumbai Badminton Association and played at the Bombay Gymkhana badminton courts on Saturday.
Aryan Talwar scored a hard-fought 30-29 win against Mannas Mehtta in a boys’ under-13 singles pre-quarter-final match of the Bombay Gymkhana-IndusInd Bank Sub-Junior Badminton Tournament
In pre-quarter-final encouters, Aryan and Mannas Mehtta were engaged in a tense battle for supremacy. But, Aryan managed to hold his nerves to scrape through winning by a slender 30-29 points margin. In contrast, Kabir played aggressively and easily defeated Virendra Pandey 30-3 without any difficulty.
Second seed Shashwat Kumar also progressed to the last eight round by recording a 30-15 win against Laukik Parulekar in a lop-sided pre-quarter-final clash.
Meanwhile, the top two seeds in the girls’ under-13 singles event, Nirmitee Gajbhiye and Riya Vinherkar comfortably won their respective last 16 matches. Nirmitee outplayed Uditi Joshi 30-7, while Riya tamed Shaurvi Konar 30-6 to move into the last eight round.
In girls’ under-15 singles pre-quarter-final encountrs, top seed Nirmitee Gajbhiye defeated Mihika Jain 30-15 and second seed Kamya Ravi outplayed Ananya Nanda 30-6.
Results –
Boys’ U-11 singles (round 16): Durgesh Kandukuri bt Aayan Kapadia 30-23, Saanidhya Agarwal bt Shanmukh Bokka 30-12, Harshit Mahimkar VS bt Anay Pingulkar 30-19, Adyant Gupta bt Vivaan Fernandes 30-22, Jayden Noronha bt Jinay Patel 30-22, Shaunak Chasia bt Chinmaay Sankhe 30-20, Vedant Sawant bt Rafael Mascarenhas 30-5.
Girls’ U-11 singles (round 16): 1-Riya Vinherkar bt Arya Umesh 30-11, Aarohi Mejari bt Arya Mestry 30-13, Ana Bhatia bt Jashvi Bhatt 30-15, Siddhi Sanghavi bt Anushka Ramrakhiani 30-10, Ketaki Thite bt Labha Marathe 30-7.
Boys’ U-13 singles (round 16): Tanay Mehta bt Deven Deshpande 30-17, Pranit Somani bt Arnav Dagli 30-15, Oskar Mathew bt Arjun Reddy Aluguvelli 30-26, Zayan Kapadia bt Nishant 30-25, Aryan Talwar bt Mannas Manish Mehtta 30-29, Angad Tathgir bt Sarthak Amrute 30-22, Kabir Barot bt Virendra Pandey 30-3, Shashwat Kumar bt Laukik Parulekar 30-15.
Girls’ U-13 singles (round 16): Nirmitee Gajbhiye bt Uditi Joshi 30-7, Siya Dahake bt Benaifer Katrak 30-25, Evanna Tyagi bt Deepti Pillay 30-11, Sanika Sinha bt Ajab Morbiwala 30-3, Ketaki Thite bt Myra Oak 30-13, Riya Vinherkar bt Shaurvi Konar 30-6.
Girls’ U-15 singles (round 16): Nirmitee Gajbhiye bt Mihika Jain 30-15, Keisha Virani bt Maira Devnani 30-24, Sanjivani Suryavanshi bt Sugandhi Goyal 30-20, Pahal Thakkar bt Ishita Vyas 30-17, Spriha Jha bt Rishika Goyal 30-19, Vriddhi Chaphekar bt Shreya Chary 30-13, Kamya Ravi bt Ananya Nanda 30-6.