Rehan, Aishani in next round of badminton championship

Kanpur: Top seeded Rehan Siddiqui of Jhansi and Aishani Singh of Kanpur drubbed their rivals and moved into the next round of Yonex Sunrise First UP State U-19 Junior Major badminton championship being played at the Badminton Hall of Green Park.Rehan Siddiqui outplayed Ayan Ansari (Ayodhya) by 30-17 and Aishani Singh humbled Ayushi Yadav of Meerut by 30-24. Skanda Pandey of Lucknow defeated second seeded Siddhi Kumar Rathi of Meerut by 30-17.Earlier in the morning, divisional commissioner Lokesh MG, Mrigank Shekhar Pathak (ADCP), Ranjit Kumar ( ACP) and Mudrika Pathak, deputy director sports, Siddhanath Gupta (principal BNSD Inter College), Santram Dwivedi (Anand Kumar), Ramandeep Singh, director, Guru Gobind Singh Sports Academy inaugurated the second day's proceedings. Results of matches held on second day are:Boys-Ayush Pankaj (Saharanpur) bt Bhumesh Uttrani (Lkw) 30-20, Mohd M Haque (Gkp) bt Dhruv Kumar Pal (Gzb) 30-22, Divgi Singh (Lkw) bt Bhavya Baghel (Etawah) 30-23, Neer Nehwal (Noida) bt Kartikeya Bansal (Agra) 30-16, Devansh Govila (Algh) bt Shaurya Yadav (Mrt), 30-26, Ashwani Singh (Basti ) bt Ansh (Saharanpur) bt Akshat Sharma (Lkw) 30-19.Vishnu Kant (Banda) bt Pratham Singh (Knp) 30-21, Devansh Maurya (Jaunpur) bt Shivam Srivastava (Gkp) 30-27, Prateek Chaturvedi (Knp) bt Dev Maheshwari (Unnao) 30-12, Shourya Verma (Bareilly) bt Shaurya Malhotra (Noida) 30-15. Girls-Kalyani Rai (Mau) bt Sanvika Gupta (Knp) 30-15, Ananya Singh (Prayagraj) bt Shivanshi Gupta (Knp) 30-9, Somya Dharam (Gbd) bt Kajal Mishra (Lkw) 30-28, Devyani Pandey (Knp) bt Reshu (Gzb) 30-2, Nehal Neeru Mittal (Lkw) bt Siddhi Jain (Knp) 30-8, Aaral Dwivedi (Knp) bt Janvi Singh (Knp) 30-18, Rudranshi Rana (Mrt) bt Laxmi Shukla (Knp) 30-9, Ashlesha Sharma (Mrt) bt Khushi Yadav (Kaushambi) 30-19, Siddhi Jha (Knp) bt Pavani Paulena Kalra (Lkw) 30-1, Shreya Singh (Ayodhya) bt Shiwangi Singh (Ghazipur) 30-18, Shristika Bhatnagar (Knp) bt Cheema Sehgal (Gzb) 30-4, Kresha Gulrajani (Knp) bt Anupama Gupta (Banda) 30-6, Ishita Gangwar (Gzb) bt Rashi Tripathi (Knp) 30-9, Aditi Mishra (Knp) got walkover against Arshi Mishra (Prayagraj)