Aditya crashes out in all India junior ranking badminton

BANGALORE: Top-seeded Aditya Joshi suffered a shock first-round exit in the boys U-19 category of the 12th Union Bank all India junior ranking badminton tournament on Wednesday.
Air India's Aditya staged a spirited fightback after losing the first game to Kanishq M, but could not prevent his opponent from Andhra Pradesh sealing the tie 21-15, 6-21, 21-16 at the Karnataka Badminton Association courts.
Select results:
Boys:
U-19: First round (prefix denotes seeding): Kanishq M (AP) bt 1-Aditya Joshi (AI) 21-15, 6-21, 21-16; 15-Harshit Aggarwal (Kar) bt Yash Yogi (CG) 21-10, 21-12; Hemanth MG (Kar) bt Vighnesh Devlekar (Mah) 21-18, 21-18; Saad Ali Syed (Kar) bt Raman Deep Singh (Pnb) 21-17, 19-21, 21-12; S Daniel Farid (Kar) bt Kartikey Gulshan Kumar (Del) 19-21, 21-12, 21-13; Kumar Aman (Har) bt BR Sankeerth (Kar) 21-19, 19-21, 21-19; Arintap Dasgupta (WB) bt Yuvraj Shinde (Kar) 21-13, 22-20; Karan Rajan (TN) bt Sahil Sipani (Kar) 11-21, 25-23, 21-17; 16-S Balu Mahendra (AP) bt Ashith Surya (Kar) 21-19, 21-19;
U-17: First round: 1-S Daniel Farid (Kar) bt Harinagu K (AP) 21-6, 21-12; Rishav Sarma (Asm) bt Siddharth ES (Kar) 21-15, 21-15; Saad Ali Syed (Kar) bt Himanshu Saroha (Har) 21-16, 21-13; Mithun M (Kar) bt 13-Ribya Jokom (Aru) 21-6, 21-11; Akashraj Murthy (Kar) bt Sai Kishore T (AP) 23-21, 21-10; 7-BR Sankeerth (Kar) bt Arintap Dasgupta (WB) 14-21, 21-11, 21-17; 9-Sahil Sipani (Kar) bt Saurav Tomar (Del) 21-8, 21-10; 5-Chirag Sen (Utr) bt BM Rahul Bhardhvaj (Kar) 15-21, 21-18, 21-5; Sudeep Suresh (Kar) bt Pradyumna Kulkarni (Kar) 21-9, 21-17;
Girls:
U-19: First round: 1-Reshma Karthik (AI) bt Sruthi KP (Ker) 11-4 retd.; Apeksha Nayak (Kar) bt 13-D Sudha Kalyani (AP) 24-22, 21-15; Mahima Aggarwal (Kar) bt Muskan Sohi (Chg) 22-20, 21-13; Vibhuti Agarwal (Mah) bt Reenu T (Kar) 21-12, 21-11; Haritha MH (Ker) bt Archana Pai (Kar) 21-13, 21-15; Mira Mahadevan (Kar) bt Santosh Sanjana (AI) 21-15 retd.; Vaishnavi Iyer (Kar) bt 14-Kailash (Chg) 21-8, 21-11; 4-Raje Rasika (Mah) bt Meghana Kulkarni (Kar) 21-7, 21-17; Savita RN (Kar) bt Riya Gajjar (Guj) 21-14, 14-21, 21-16.
U-17: First round: 16-Anura Prabhudesai (Goa) bt Archana Pai (Kar) 21-10, 21-15; Mithula UK (Kar) bt Surbhi Balvir (Del) 21-14, 21-11; Ashwini Bhat K (Kar) bt Anshu Sharma (MP) 20-22, 21-15, 21-10; Apeksha Nayak (Kar) bt Sanya Sethi (Chg) 11-21, 21-14, 21-18; 10-Mahima Aggarwal (Kar) bt Lakshmi G (AP) 21-13, 21-8; 2-Pardeshi Shriyanshi (MP) bt Savita RN (Kar) 21-10, 21-14.