New Delhi: Qualifier Sudeep Suresh stunned top seed Chirag Sen and advanced to the quarterfinals of the boys' under-15 category in the Yonex Sunrise National sub-junior badminton championships here on Tuesday.
The results (pre-quarterfinals): Boys: U-15: Sudeep Suresh (Kar) bt Chirag Sen (Utk) 21-18, 15-21, 23-21. U-13: Siril Verma (AP) Vaibhav Chouhan (Utk) 21-16, 21-10; Shourya Singh (Chg) bt Kartikey Gulshan Kumar (Del) 16-21, 21-18, 21-18.
Girls: U-15: Ruthvika Shivani (AP) bt Kanika Kanwal (Del) 21-9, 21-11; V. Harika (AP) bt Aditi Anand (TN) 21-17, 20-22, 21-11; Riya Mookherjee (WB) bt Akanshi Baliyan (Del) 21-14, 14-21, 21-13; Shikha Gautam (Mah) bt J.K. Malavika (Ker) 20-22, 21-19, 27-25. U-13: Kanika Kanwal (Del) bt Mandeepa Dey (WB) 21-4, 21-9.
The Hindu