Gayatri enters the semifinals

June 27, 2015 02:47 am | Updated 02:47 am IST - NEW DELHI:

Top seed Gayatri Gopichand made the girls’ under-13 semifinals with a 21-15, 21-19 victory over S. Kavipriya in the PNB Metlife Chaaji memorial all-India sub-junior badminton tournament at the Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium here on Friday.

However, Gayatri, daughter of national coach and former All England champion P. Gopichand, lost the under-15 pre-quarterfinals to Chimran Kalita in three games.

The results:

Boys: U-15: Pre-quarterfinals: Aakash Yadav bt Rohan Gurbani 21-15, 21-5; Akash Thakur bt Kartik Vyakaranam 21-11, 20-22, 21-13; Yash Raikwar bt Siddhant Salar 21-19, 21-13; Jayant Rana bt Qadeer Moinuddin Mohammmed 21-16, 21-16; Abhyansh Singh bt Afraz Mohamed 21-12, 21-17; Mohit Goury bt Priyanshu Rajawat 21-15, 21-18; Vishnuvardhan Goud bt Tukum Laa 20-22, 21-11, 21-17; Maisnam Meiraba bt Dishanta Debnath 21-9, 21-14.

U-13: Quarterfinals: Jayant Rana bt Tushar Bhandari 21-8, 21-13; Vikas Yadav bt Varun Dave 21-15, 21-18; Chayanit Joshi bt Sanjeeva Rao 12-21, 21-13, 21-16; Bidyasagar Salam bt Sankar Muthusamy 21-18, 21-15.

Girls: U-15: Quarterfinals: Ritika Thaker bt Chimran Kalita 21-15, 16-21, 21-15.

Pre-quarterfinals: Aakarshi Kashyap bt Yoshita Mathur 21-11, 21-14; Trisha Hegde bt Megha Pothamsetty 21-14, 21-12; Ritika Thaker bt Saie Nandurkar 19-21, 21-13, 21-17; Chaimran Kalita bt Gayatri Gopichand 21-14, 16-21, 21-13; Deyashi Kanjibillya bt Simranjit Kaur 21-18, 17-21, 21-12; Vaishnave Reddy Jakka bt Ananya Goel 21-18, 22-20; Simran Singhi bt S. Winona 21-19, 21-15; Malvika Bansod bt Shivani Pathi 21-11, 16-21, 21-17.

U-13: Quarterfinals: Gayatri Gopichand bt S. Kavipriya 21-15, 21-19; Durva Gupta bt Aarya Deshpande 21-18, 22-20; Aditi Bhatt bt Shivangi Singh 22-20, 16-21, 21-9; Samiya Farooqui Imad bt Taneesha Singh 19-21, 21-19, 21-10.

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