PANAJI
Ayaan Shaikh and Anish Kamath have moved into the U-19 Junior Boys Singles finals along with Janhavi Mahale and Pratistha Shenoy in U-19 Girls singles category, at the State Badminton Ranking tournament organised by Panjim Warriors Club in collaboration with Goa Badminton Association and Sports Authority of Goa.
In the second of the three State level tournaments powered by Adidas Badminton and Parama Heartbeat Sports played at Indoor stadium, Campal, Panaji, Ayaan upset top seed Nishant Shenai in the first semis, playing a clinical game to register a straight sets victory. Second seed Anish Kamath prevailed over Yash Halarnkar in a tough two set match.
In Girls U-19 section, Janhavi defeated Atmaja Shetti while Pratistha Shenoy put it across Riya Haldankar in the other semis. In U-13 Boys singles, Advait Balakrishnan will clash with Aarush Pawaskar while Ritika Chelluri has set up a title clash with Sagun Singh in U-13 Girls. Harsh Mane will battle it out against Yash Desai in Boys U-15 Singles category while Sakshi K will battle it out against Sriya Saraf in U-15 Girls singles.
In U-17 Girls finals, it will be Nidhi Desai vs Synnovia D’Souza while Anish Kamath will face Harsh Mane in U-17 Boys Singles finals.
The other finalists: U-17 Mixed Doubles - Salil Deshpande/ Janhavi Virnodkar vs Aryan Kumar / Minoshka Pereira; U-19 Mixed Doubles - Nishant Shenai / Pratistha Shenoy vs Yash Halarnkar / Nidhi Desai; U-19 Girls Doubles - Janhavi Mahale/ Dhiti Lotlikar vs Nyssa Dhupdale/ Synnovia D’Souza; U-17 Boys Doubles - Chirag Mahale/ Sarvadnya Khandeparkar vs Vedant Chauhan/ Anish Kamath; and U-19 Boys Doubles - Ayaan Shaikh/ Yash Halarnkar vs Aryaman Saraf/ Chetan Magdum.
