CITY’S trio of Aanya Jha, Samyra Barbat and Ekansha Tarone made it to the quarter-finals of girls singles Under-9 events of the Yonex-Sunrise GH Raisoni Memorial Maharashtra (U-9, U-11 and U-13) Sub-Junior State Badminton Championship underway at Arundhati Arun Badminton Academy in Besa on Saturday. In their Round of 16 matches, Aanya Jha defeated Shaurya Kakde of Beed 15-8, 15-7; Samyra got the better of Mumbai Suburban’s Juee Sukthankar in three games 12-15, 15-10, 15-10 while Ekansha drubbed Vritika Punekar of Chandrapur 15-6, 15-6. Other Nagpur girls Rajnandini Sayam and Anshika Jain lost their pre-quarters matches.

 

While Rajnandini went down to top seed Nirja Pawar of Sindhudurg 17-15, 15-10; Anshika was no match to Satara’s Irra Kadam losing 15-4, 15-3. In U-9 boys singles, Ayan Taori blew away a game advantage going down to Devansh Koli of Sindhudurg 14-16, 15-11, 16-14. Pune’s top seed Vivaan Burnwal was just too good for Tarush Ghadage of Thane winning 15-5, 15-4. OTHER RESULTS BS U-11 R16: Pradyumna Meshram (5), Nagpur bt Kovid Karandikar, Pune, 15-12, 15-8; Raghav Niwarti, Nagpur bt Sayujya Rajput (13), Nashik, 15-2, 15-9. GS U-11 R16: Kashvi Singh (6), Pune bt Kshitija Yaul, Nagpur, 15-9, 15-6; Anvi Kulkarni, Pune bt Prisha Titare (9), Nagpur, 15-10, 15-11. BS U-13 R16: Rudra Manohar (1), Palghar bt Saatvik Gupta, Pune, 15-10, 15-6; Ojas Landge (5), Nagpur bt Vihan Deshmukh, Latur, 15-17, 15-9, 15-12. Aaradhya Kalaskar, Nagpur bt Ronit Jadhav (3), Palghar, 11-15, 15-9, 15-13. Archit Khandeshe, Pune bt Shreeansh Naidu (13), Nagpur, 15-13, 15-6. GS U-13 R16: Divisha Singh (1), Pune bt Durva Bhalkar, Pune, 15-4, 15-3; Aaradhya Dongare, Pune bt Sharwari Pusadkar, Nagpur, 15-5, 15-9; Aradhya Mohite, Pune bt Aanya Malhotra (13), Nagpur, 15-7, 15-7.