Farid, Shikha enter quarterfinals with easy victories

 Karnataka’s Daniel S Farid and Shikha Gautam stormed into the under-19 quarterfinals of the 13th Union Bank All India Junior Ranking Badminton tournament at the KBA courts here on Thursday. 

In the boys’ pre-quarterfinal clash, Farid cruised to a 21-5, 21-13 victory over Shubham Gusain of Delhi while Shikha prevailed 21-19, 21-19 over Kerala’s Malavika JK in the corresponding girls’ encounter. In the under-17 boys section, unseeded Rahul Bharadwaj booked his place in the last-eight defeating Arintap Dasgupta 21-16, 21-14. 

Shikha continued her good run in the under1-7 section as well as she set aside Andhra Pradesh’s Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka 21-13, 21-11. 

Results (all-prequarters): Boys: Singles: U-19: Siril Varma AAS (AP) bt Kartik Jindal (Har) 21-19, 21-16; Rahul Bhardhvaj BM (Kar) bt Kanishq M (AI) 21-16, 21-17; Daniel Farid S (Kar) bt Shubham Gusain (Dli) 21-5, 21-13; Arintap Dasgupta (AI) bt Lakshya Sen (Utr) 21-12, 21-18; Talar Laa (ANP) bt Harshit Aggarwal (Kar) 21-12, 16-21, 21-19; Rahul Yadav C (AP) bt Aman Kumar (Har) 21-13, 21-8; Ansal Yadav (UP) bt Bodhit Joshi (Utr) 21-14, 21-14; Karan Rajan (TN) bt Chirag Sen (AI) 21-19, 2-21, 21-9.

U-17: Singles: Kanishq M (AI) bt Harsh Jagdhane (Mah) 21-10, 21-15; Lakshya Sen (Utr) bt Jagadeesh K (AP) 21-13 ,21-17; Rahul Yadav C (AP) bt Kartik Jindal (Har) 21-19, 17-21, 21-14; Rahul Bhardhvaj BM (Kar) bt Arintap Dasgupta (AI) 21-16, 21-14; Kartikey Gulshan Kumar (Dli) bt Kiran George (Ker) 21-14, 16-21, 21-15; Chirag Sen (AI) bt Bodhit Joshi (Utr) 21-17, 13-21, 21-16; Kaustubh Rawat (Utr) bt Arya Bhivpathaki (Mah) 19-21, 21-18, 21-14; Siril Varma ASS (AP) bt Mithun M (Kar) 21-19, 21-12.

Girls: U-19: Shriyanshi Pardeshi (AI) bt Aditi Anand (TN) 21-15, 21-12; Revati Devasthale (Mah) bt Anoushka Parikh (Guj) 21-11, 21-15; Vrushali G (AP) bt Cherish D'Souza (Mah) 21-10, 21-12; Kanika Kanwal (Dli) bt Anura Prabhudesai (Goa) 21-13, 21-10; Sri Krishna Priya (AP) bt Priyanka Kumawat (Raj) 21-10, 21-17; Reshma Karthik (AI) bt Mahima Aggarwal (Kar) 21-14, 21-15; Ruthvika Shivani G (AP) bt Karishma Wadkar (Mah) 21-14, 21-13; Shikha Gautam (Kar) bt Malavika JK (Ker) 21-19, 21-19.

U-17: Vrushali G (AP) bt Archana Pai (Kar) 21-11, 21-14; Riya Mookerjee (UP) bt Apeksha Nayak (Kar) 21-17, 21-15; Kanika Kanwal (Dli) bt Harika V (AI) 21-11, 21-18; Mahima Aggarwal (Kar) bt Vaishnavi K (AP) 21-15, 21-17; Sai Uttejitha Rao Ch (AP) bt Ira Sharma (Har) 18-21, 21-11, 21-12; Shikha Gautam (Kar) bt Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka (AP) 21-13, 21-11; Anura Prabhudesai (Goa) bt Pallavi Pitale (Mah) 21-7, 21-6; Shriyanshi Pardeshi (AI) bt Akshita A (AP) 21-4, 21-11.