City youngsters in SF

 

 

 

A HOST of city’s upcoming shuttler entered semi-finals of the PNB Metlife Junior Badminton Championship (Maharashtra Open) under way at Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai. Vaishnavi Manglekar, Anudhya Satpute, Aanya Malhotra, Akshita Dorshatwar and Shreeansh Naidu entered their respective age groups last-four stage. In U-13 girls singles quarter-final, Vaishnavi beat Anvisha Ghorpade 11-05, 11-06. In U-11 girls singles, Anudhya Satpute beat Ovi Patil 11-09, 09-11, 11-05. In U-9 girls singles quarters, Aanya beat Swasti Rooge 11-06, 11-09 while Akshita beat Krisha Goyal 11-08, 11-05.

 

In U-9 boys singles, Shreeansh beat Reyansh Lanhewar 11-01, 11-06. In the semi-finals, Vaishnavi will play against Pranjal Dedhia; Anudhya will lock horns with against Hazel Joshi, Aanya will take on Kairavi Kulkarni, Akshita will fight it out against Priya Amburle and Shreeansh will be pitted against Piyush Suthar.

 

 

YUKTI Shende and Shreeja Wankhede made it to the main draw of the All India Sub-Junior Ranking Tournament in progress at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. Both entered main draw in the Under-13 girls singles category. In their last qualifying matches, Yukti beat Kasturi Chetia 15-9, 15-10 while Shreeja defeated Subhalakshmi Baruah 15-4, 15-8. Both train under coach Harshit Mandal.