Mumbai: Bengal's Rituparna Das set herself up for a double, advancing to girls' under-19 and under-17 finals at the Gautam Thakkar Memorial all India junior masters badminton tournament here on Monday.
A trainee at the Gopi Chand Academy, she relied on speed and court coverage to beat Kerala's Daya Elsa Jacob 21-19, 10-21, 21-11 to set up a title clash with Air India's Tanvi Lad. In the U-17 age group, she got past Maharashtra's Karishma Wadkar 12, 21-17, 3-1 (retd) and will take on Andhra Pradesh youngster Ruthvika Shivani.
The results: Boys U-17 (semifinals): Arun George bt Shyam Prasad 21-15, 22-20; Shreyansh Jaiswal bt Harsheel Dani 21-18, 21-14.
U-19 doubles (third round): Srikanth K & Hemanagendra Babu bt A. Sanjay Kulkarni & S Pranav 25-23, 21-12; A. Naresh & B Venkatesh bt K. Sriteja & NVS Vijetha 21-13, 21-14.
U-17 doubles (3rd round): Harsheel Dani & Aditya Joshi bt Sudhanshu Medsikar & Siddharath Thakur 21-16, 21-18; K. Chaitanya Reddy & K.P. Chaitanya bt Vighnesh Devlekar & Kaushal Dharmamer 12-21, 21-16, 21-16.
Girls U-19 (semifinals): Tanvi Lad bt Saili Rane 21-13, 21-14; Rituparna Das bt Daya Elsa Jacob 21-19 10-21 21-11.
U-17 (semifinals): Rituparna Das bt Karishma Wadkar 21-17, 3-1 (retd); Ruthvika Shivani bt Reshma Karthik 21-17, 21-6.
U-19 doubles (3rd round): Saili Rane & Arathi Sara Sunil bt Agna Anto & M. Pooja 21-15, 21-9; Gauri Ghate & Daya Elsa Jacob bt Farha Mather & Ananya Nagar 21-16, 21-7.
U-17 doubles: G. Ruthvika Shivani & Poorvisha S. Ram bt Vallari Bukane & Farha Mather 21-10, 21-13; Sudha Kalyani & Anjali Rawat bt Ananya Nagar & Smirti Nagarkoti 21-13, 21-17.
The Hindu