New Delhi: Gagan Sharma knocked out Bhaskar Chakraborty (21-13, 21-16) in the pre-quarterfinal at GD Memorial Badminton Championship here on Wednesday.
Gagan Sharma had a head start taking a lead of 5-1 and was consistently ahead of his competitor in terms of points. Bhaskar Chakraborty tried to back the fight with certain shots, but his shots was only restricted to the net. Unseeded player smashing quality helped him to win the set with a large margin (21-13).
During the second set, the match was totally unpredictable as both the player counter attacks from their sides of the court turned the crowd attention. It was interesting till the score of 11-9. But the unseeded player reinforced his growing reputation as the one to watch out for by dumping his opponent Bhaskhar Chakroborty to make place in boys singles (21-16).
In other matches, Rohan Kapoor and Arush Sethia beat Geet Gulati and Sushant Morcha in the deciding set to secure a place in boys singles (21-8,19-21,21-16)
RESULTS
BOYS SINGLES UNDER -19 PRE QUARTER FINALS
1. Tushar Aggarwal beat Rohan Kapoor 21-15, 21-13
2. Bhaskar Chakravorty beat Ayush Gupta 21-8, 21-16
3. Yash Nain beat Nishant Dua 21-17, 21-13
4. Hama bin Aziz beat Sushant Manocha 21-15, 18-21, 21-14
5. Shubh Chajjer beat Parmod Dasiya 21-16, 21-16
6. Arush Setia Beat Deepanshu Sharma 21-17, 21-14
7. Uttkarsh Arora beat Saurav Tomar 21-12, 21-10
8. Rishab Sahdev beat Ankit rawat 21-15, 21-10
Men Singles – IIIrd Round
1. Ashish Sharma Beat Hamad bin Aziz 21-12, 22-20
2. Tushar Aggarwal beat Raunak Kapoor 21-10, 21-15
3. Ayush Gupta beat Sanjeet Singh 15-21, 22-20, 21-18
4. Mukesh Kumar beat Harish Singh 21-13, 21-16
5. Bhaskar Chakravorty beat Kashish Anand 21-14, 21-15
6. Amit Sharma beat Rudra Kaushik 21-14, 21-13
7. Sachin Rawat beat Vishal Thakran 21-6, 21-7
8. Manish Rawat beat Vikrant Kushwaha 21-5, 21-7
9. Guranshu Chopra beat Shubh Chajjer 21-12, 21-12
10. Vijay Sharma beat Yash Kumar 21-12, 21-9
By Rajorshi Moitra
Indian Sports News
