Bangalore: Top seed Richa Muktibodh reached into the girls' semifinal at the Yonex Sunrise State under-10 badminton championships, defeating Anushka Ganesh 21-10, 21-2 at the Devanahalli Club, here on Sunday. Keerthana Shroff (2) and Advika Ganesh (3) also came through their quarterfinals with ease, but fourth seed Deetya Jagadish faltered, losing 21-6, 21-14 to 13th seed Aadya Variyath.
Over in the boys' section, second seed Shivdeep Jayanth was made to sweat, but eventually overcame Chinmaya Venkatesh 21-15, 21-18 to enter the last four.
The results: Boys: Quarterfinals: Yash Patil bt Sujal 21-10, 21-4; C.S. Saket bt H.V. Santhrupth 21-8, 21-9; Ajinkya Joshi bt C.G. Tejas 21-14, 18-21, 21-17; Shivdeep Jayanth bt Chinmaya Venkatesh 21-15, 21-18.
Pre-quarterfinals: Sujal bt Rajeev Rajagopal 21-15, 21-15; Yash bt S. Mukul 21-13, 21-5; Saket bt R. Neelesh 21-14, 19-21, 21-9; Santhrupth bt K. Mayur 21-15, 21-13; Ajinkya bt R. Pranav 21-14, 21-6; Tejas bt Sufiyan Arif Desai 21-8, 21-7; Venkatesh bt Saneeth Dayanand 21-9, 21-10; Shivdeep bt Naren Shankar Iyer 21-11, 21-12.
Girls: Quarterfinals: Richa Muktibodh bt Anushka Ganesh 21-10, 21-2; Advika Ganesh bt Tanya Hemanth 21-5, 21-10; Aadya Variyath bt Deetya Jagadish 21-6, 21-14; Keerthana Shroff bt N.S. Gagana 21-10, 21-5.
Pre-quarterfinals: Richa bt M. Shivani 21-1, 21-5; Anushka bt Mariyam Fathima 21-5, 21-4; Advika bt Kruthi Bharadwaj 21-4, 21-11; Tanya bt Kushi Athreya 21-8, 21-14; Aadya bt Medha Sasidharan 21-13, 21-9; Deetya bt H. Vijetha 21-12, 21-19; Gagana bt Kanika Shenoy 21-10, 21-13; Keerthana bt Niyati Prabhu 21-14, 22-20 .