Unseeded youngsters Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye and Taarini Suri caused quite a sensation as they continued with their impressive winning run of form and knocked out the top two seeds in the girls’ under-17 event of the Greater Mumbai District Badminton Championship 2019, organized by the Greater Mumbai Badminton Association and hosted by the cricket Club of India and played at the club’s badminton courts on Wednesday.
Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye
In semi-final encounters, Naishaa toppled the top-seeded Shravani Panchal pulling off a comfortable 21-12, 21-8 win while on a side court Taarini sent second seed Saanvi Mardolkar crashing to a 21-11, 21-16 defeat to set a clash in the summit round.
Both Naishaa and Taarini will also fight it out for the top honours in the girls’ under-15 final. The top seed Taarini tamed Tarushi Yadav 21-10, 21-3, while second seed Naishaa prevailed ovet Sanjivani Suryavanshi winning 21-4, 21-4.
Meanwhile, Nigel D’Sa the men’s singles second seed bowed out losing to unseeded Shubham Pal in straight games at 17-21, 22-24 in the quarter-final.
Top seed Viplav Kuvale Easily advanced to the semi-finals defeating Nihar Kelkar 21-10, 21-11.
Results – Girls’ U-13 singles (quarter-finals): 1-Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye beat Mithila Shinde 21-5, 21-2;
Riya Vinherkar beat Siya Dahake 21-9, 21-7; Ananya Shah beat Tarushi Yadav 17-21, 21-19, 21-8;
2-Taarini Suri beat Uditi Joshi 21-6, 21-8.
Boys U-13 singles (quarter-finals): Nirmit Nayak beat Vidur Jhunjhunwala 21-9, 21-4;
Harshit Mahimkar beat Dheer Varma 21-4, 21-1;
Aryan P Sikchi beat Armaan Rustomji 21-9, 21-13;
Angad Tathgir beat Hrishikesh Viswanathan 21-8, 21-5.
Girls’ U-17 singles (semi-finals): Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye beat 1-Shravani Panchal 21-12, 21-8;
Taarini Suri beat 2-Saanvi Mardolkar 21-11, 21-16.
Boys’ U-17 singles (semi-finals): 1-Darius Pardiwala beat Rohit Sundaram 21-14, 21-10;
2-Aaryavardhan Jadhav beat Chittin Yadav 21-10, 21-11.
Girls’ U-15 (semi-finals): 1-Taarini Suri beat Tarushi Yadav 21-10, 21-3;
2-Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye beat Sanjivani Suryavanshi 21-4, 21-4.
Women’s singles (quarter-finals): 1-Kareena Madan beat Divya Jha 21-11, 21-6;
Akshaya Warang beat Anagha Karandikar 21-13, 21-12; Riya Arolkar beat Rajvi Sampat 21-9, 21-13;
2-Samiaa Shah beat Arpita Jhaveri 21-2, 21-2.
Men’s singles (quarter-finals): 1-Viplav Kuvale beat Nihar Kelkar 21-10, 21-11;
Shubham Pal beat 2-Nigel D’Sa beat 21-17, 24-22. 3-Yash Tiwari beat Jawad Shaikh 21-16, 21-9.