PUNE, July 9: The Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial junior state selection badminton championship got off to a lukewarm start as one sided matches were the order of the opening days proceedings at the WIE Complex in Pune on today.Seeds had a field day on the opening round making of their respective competition with the largest extended match being played for 15 minutes between No.8 Neha Verma (Aurangabad) and Jui Agaskar (Mumbai Subarb) in the midget girls singles. While the shortest time recorded victory was by No.6 Shipra Ghoshray of Pune who defeated unseeded Riti Mahadeokar of Nagpur 11-2, 11-2 in the same section.
Results (I Rd)
(Girls) Mini singles: Pradnya Gadre (Ngp) bt Nandini Bharadwaj (Thn) 11-5, 11-0; Shweta Kelkar (Rai) bt Rucha Mhatre (Thn) 11-0, 11-6; Arundhati Pantwane (Nag) bt Rewati Gosavi (Pn) 11-0, 11-0; Kadambari Chedda (Thn) bt Rucha Bondre 9Pn) 11-3, 11-5; Anubhi Kankane (Pn) bt Surashree Joshi (Nag) 9-11, 11-2, 11-7.
Midget singles: Neha Rane (MS) bt Varada Dixit (Ngp) 11-7, 11-1; Jui Agaskar (MS) bt Gandhali Kulkarni (Khp) 11-9, 11-5; Maitree Korgaon (MS) bt Gayatri Vartak 11-0, 11-3; Sayali Gokhale (Pn) bt Charuta Phalgone (Nsk) 11-1, 11-0; Maitree Nigvekar (GM) bt Neha Rane (MS) 11-8, 11-7; Shweta Khare (Thn) bt Sambhavi Padukone (A'bad) 11-0, 11-2; Geetanjali Bhosale 9Pn) bt Rachana Bajaj (MS) 8-11, 13-10, 11-4; Shipi Kankane (Pn) bt Surashree Joshi 9Ngp) 11-0, 11-0; Sayali Date (Pn) bt Manali Kudtarkar (Pn) 11-8, 11-4; Neha Pandit (Pn) bt Kadambari Cheda (Thn) 11-0, 11-0; Amita Dhainje (Pn) bt Saumya Pandhye (MS) 11-8, 8-11, 11-3; Spoorti Rattan (Rat) bt Shachi Sharma (MS) 11-0, 11-0; Neha Verma (A'bad) bt Jui Agaskar (MS) 11-0, 11-2; Arundhati Pantwane 9Ngp) bt Nupur Hukmani (Pn) 11-0, 11-0; Riddhi Pajwani (MS) bt Sampada Saharashtrabudhe (Pn) 11-2, 11-2; Gupika Chitale (Pn) bt Neeta Dande (Bul) 11-1, 11-0; Shipra Ghashray (Pn) bt Riti Mahadeokar (Ngp) 11-2, 11-2; Maitrayee Korgankar (MS) bt Rucha Mhatre9Thn) 11-0, 11-1; Aditi Mutatkar (Pn) bt Anchal Waswani 9GM) 11-0, 11-1.
Sub-junior singles: Deepti Paranjape (San) bt Priya Tidke (Ngp) 11-0, 11-1; Ketki Rajsimha 9GM) bt Manasi Joshi 9Pn) 11-8, 4-11, 11-3; Neha Wad (MS) bt Richa Phalgune (Nsk) W/O; Manasi Bhave (Pn) bt Sneha Hukmani (Pn) 11-0, 11-0; Dhanya Nair (Pn) bt Dnyanada Dixit (Ngp) 11-0, 11-5; Preeti Sapre (Pn) bt Shilpa Vidhwans (A'bad) 11-5, 11-4; Amodi Borkar (MS) bt Vishaka Nimbalkar (Pn) 10-13, 11-9, 11-2; Archi Belekar (Ngp) bt Rashmi Yevalkar (Thn) 11-6, 11-5; Manasi Marathe (Tn) bt Neeti Kapre (Ngp) 11-7, 13-10; Gauri Bhange (Pn) bt Spoorti Ratan (Rai) 11-6, 11-4; Poonam Walimbe (Pn) bt Druti Deshpande (MS) 11-6, 11-3; Shivani Mayekar (GM) bt Prachi Pitke 9Sag) 11-4, 11-0; Nikita Hirkudali (MS) bt Diti Mahadeokar (Ngp) 11-1, 11-0.
Jr Singles: Kranti Sane (Pn) bt Sampada Pai (GM) 9-11, 11-3, 11-9; Nikita Hirkudali (MS) bt Anuj Wadke (MS) 11-6, 13-11; Nupura Bhide (MS) bt Neha Wad (MS) 11-6, 11-3; Neha Gangoli (GM) bt Diva Arora (PN) 11-2, 11-2.BOYS Mini singles: Aditya Marwar (Ngp) bt Gandhar Pavgi (Pn) 15-1, 15-0; Raunak Khandelwal (Ngp) bt Swapnil Kanitkar (Pn) 5-15, 15-2, 15-12; Ankush Khadgi (A'bad) bt Jaywardhan Bhosale (Pn) 15-11, 15-13.
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