Top seeded Tanishq Saxena,f Mumbai Suburbs continues to show irresistible form as he made short work of Pune’s Vedant Gokhale 21-13 to sail into boys under-15 pre-quarterfinals of the Bliss Pharma-Maharashtra State Sub-junior week-end badminton tournament, held at North Indian courts at King’s Circle, here today.
Tanishq Saxena
However, in the same age group, Aryan Kale was fully stretched by Aachintya Agarwal before the former prevailed at 21-20, so too, Satvik Sharma, who had to bring out his best to get the better of Aaryavardhan jadhav 21-20. VArun Nagdev, too, made to fight all the way before he defeated Atharva Aras 21-20. Tyrone Pereira scored over Aryan Hosangady 21-19.
Among girls, Tiny Taarini Suri, who is seeded second in the girls under-10, defeated her senior rival Shravani Panchal 21-15 to move into the girls under-13 fourth round. Joining her in the round of 32, is Mahek Nayak, who outplayed Kaavya Shankar 21-16 and Saee Shete , a 21-18 winner over Manya Avlani.
Taarini Suri
Results : Boys U-15 singles(3rdh round)- (1) Tanishq Saxena bt Vedant Gokhale 21-13; Siddharth Das bt Shivam Mane 21-14; Soham Bhutkar bt B.Sai Rohit 21-14; Aryan Kale bt Aachintya Agarwal 21-20; Satvik Sharma bt Aryavardhan Jadhav 21-20; Varun Nagdev bt Atharva Aras 21-20; Tyrone Pereira bt Aryan Hosangady 21-19; Aaditya Reddy bt Atharva B 21-19.
Boys U-13 singles (3rd round): Tanya Patankar bt Anish Divekar 21-19; Dhruv Patel bt Aalhad Joshi 21-19; Neil Parikh bt Kaathan Shah 21-16; Aaryavardhan Jadhav bt Siddharth Bhutia 21-18; Soham Bhutkar bt Vivek Bhatia 21-20.
Girls U-13 singles (3rd round): Shruti Bhoir bt Nupur Joshi 21-18; Mansi Karekar bt Urvi Desai 21-19; Niva Shah bt Sakshi Barve 21-19; Mahak Nayak bt Kaavya Shankar 21-16; Sejal Pathrabe bt Apporva Ghatge 21-17; Tarini Suri bt Shravani Panchal 21-15; Nupur Joshi bt Samruddhi Shinde 21-19; Sakshi Gaekwad bt Shivani Sriraman 21-17; Pavika Arora bt Riddhi Kandoi 21-15; Diya Gade bt Sakshi Gaedwad 21-17; Saee Shete bt Manya Avlani 21-18.