Imaan Motorwala, the second seed in the Girls U-15, dropped the first game to unseeded Spruha Joshi, before rallying to win 12-15, 15-13, 15-4 in a pre-quarter-final match of the Girls U-15 singles in the Yonex Sunrise Gautam Thakkar Memorial Maharashtra State Junior Badminton Championships, hosted by Bombay Gymkhana at their courts, here, on Thursday. In contrast, top seed Rudra Gawde brushed aside Swati Singh 15-1, 15-1.
Also making easy progress into the quarter-finals was Boys U-13 top seed Alfy Mekkadath, who steamrolled Reyansh Bhalekar 15-5, 15-1.
In a Boys U-11 match that went the distance. Lakshit Poswal defeated Mohammed Ayaan Raut 12-15, 16-14, 15-7.
Results:
Girls U-15 Round of 16: Imaan Motorwala bt Spruha Joshi 12-15, 15-13, 15-4; Rudra Gawde bt Swati Singh 15-1, 15-1; Sarathaa Devi bt Shrinika Vinayak 15-3, 15-7; Aishwarya Arolkar bt Aavni Shetty 15-6, 15-4; Anishka Karthik bt Anvi More 15-10, 15-10.
Boys U-13 Round of 16: Alfy Mekkadath bt Reyansh Bhalekar 15-5, 15-1; Devansh Pandey bt Avneesh Bagaria 15-10, 15-7; Kaveer Mehta bt Vrugved Pawar 15-1, 15-2; Arjun Aarti Rohan Raut bt Aryan Mehta 15-8, 15-5.
Boys U-11 Round of 16: Lakshit Poswal bt Mohammed Ayaan Raut 12-15, 16-14, 15-7; Shivaansh Dikkar bt Jehan Davar15-17, 15-11, 15-6; Nevan Denis bt Arin Gupte 15-4; 15-5; Toyesh Das bt Yuvaan Shetty 15-7, 16-14.
