JOIN USTop seed Balraj Kajla eased to a 21-15, 21-14 victory over his unseeded opponent Glanish Ashley Pinto in the semifinals of the under-19 boys’ singles category of the Prakash M Kodavoor Memorial junior State ranking badminton tournament.
In the final, he will meet eighth seed Raghu M in the summit clash. Raghu upset Sai Pratheek KP, seeded third, 21-14, 21-16.
Results (all semifinals): Boys: Under-19: Singles: Balraj Kajla bt Glanish Ashley Pinto 21-15, 21-14; Raghu M bt Sai Pratheek Krishna Prasad 21-14, 21-16.
Doubles: Kushal Raj S/Rahul B Prasad bt Anirudh S Deshpande/Balraj Kajla 21-23, 21-16, 21-17; Glanish Ashley Pinto/Saif Ali bt Nikhil V Desai/Vikhyath MR 21-17, 21-15.
Under-17: Singles: Mayuresh Janpandit bt Shamanth Rao Kidiyoor 21-12, 22-24, 21-17; Tejas Kallolkar bt Bhargav S Gowda 21-18, 21-10. Doubles: Mayuresh Janpandit/Sai Pratheek Krishna Prasad bt Nikhil V Desai/Vikhyath MR 21-13, 21-13; Anirudh Rajeev/Saketh Upadhya bt Ajinkya Joshi/Tejas Kallolkar 21-15, 21-10.Girls: Under-19: Singles: Apeksha Nayak bt Jayashree G 21-15, 21-11; Archana Pai bt Sheethal D 21-19, 21-14. Doubles: Apeksha Nayak/Archana Pai bt Chaitanya Bhat/ Sreebhargavi Devarayasamudram 21-5, 21-7; Ananya Praveen/Medha S bt Sree Raksha S/Vidisha Reddy A 21-12, 21-15.
Under-17: Singles: Sheethal D bt Ananya Praveen 21-10, 21-16; Medha Shashidharan bt Shraddha Hegde 21-9, 21-13.
Doubles: Aanchal Dhawan/Deethya bt Gagana NS/Ranjini Hegde 21-17, 21-18; Ramya CV/Sheethal D bt Ashma Glancia Pinto/Neha Harish 21-10, 21-9.
Under-19 mixed doubles: Kiran B/Apeksha Nayak bt Nithin HV/Spandana Bekal 21-16, 21-7; Glanish Ashley Pinto/Ashma Glancia Pinto bt Abi Amudhan S/Ranjini Hegde 22-20, 18-21, 21-15.