Reshma wins junior ranking badminton tournament

BANGALORE: Top-seeded Reshma Karthik outmuscled the talented Mahima Aggarwal to advance to the girls' U-19 quarterfinals in the 12th Union Bank all India junior ranking badminton tournament on Thursday.
Karnataka girl Reshma, representing employers Air India, prevailed 21-13, 21-7 at the Karnataka Badminton Association courts.
Results (all pre-quarterfinals; prefix denotes seeding):
Boys:
U-19: Chirag Sen (Utr) bt 15-Harshit Aggarwal (Kar) 21-18, 21-16; 5-Shreyansh Jaiswal (CG) bt Siril Varma (AP) 21-16, 21-12; 13-Laa Talar (AI) bt 4-C Rahul Yadav (AP) 20-22, 21-6, 21-12; 6-Kaushal Dharmamer (Mah) bt S Daniel Farid (Kar) 21-12, 21-10; 8-Shlok Ramchandran (Mah) bt Aman Kumar (Har) 21-8, 21-9; 3-Arun George (Ker) bt Siddharath Thakur (Mah) 21-19, 21-11.
U-17: 1-S Daniel Farid (Kar) bt 12-Bodhit Joshi (Utr) 21-11, 21-12; 15-Prajapati Shubham (MP) bt 6-Kanishq M (AP) 21-19, 21-16; Ansal Yadav (UP) bt 14-Lakshya Sen (Utr) 21-17, 24-22; Aarush Setia (Del) bt Mithun M (Kar) 16-21, 21-16, 21-18; 7-BR Sankeerth (Kar) bt 11-D Chandra Kumar (AP) 21-14, 21-12; 4-Talar Laa (AI) bt 10-Chirag Shetty (Mah) 21-9, 10-21, 21-14; 5-Chirag Sen (Utr) bt 9-Sahil Sipani (Kar) 21-18, 10-21, 21-12; 2-C Rahul Yadav (AP) bt 16-Aman Kumar (Har) 21-8, 21-13.
Girls:
U-19: 1-Reshma Karthik (AI) bt Mahima Aggarwal (Kar) 21-13, 21-7; 10-Karishma Wadkar (Mah) bt Shruthi S (TN) 21-11, 21-18; Shikha Gautam (Mah) bt 5-Sara Naqvi (UP) 19-21, 21-19, 21-19; 7-Riya Mookerjee (UP) bt 15-Priya Sri Krishna (AP) 21-16, 21-18; 4-Rasika Raje (Mah) bt Vaishnavi Iyer (Kar) 21-13, 22-20; Vaishnavi Bhale (Mah) bt 6-Kuhoo Garg (Utr) 11-7 retd.; Revati Devasthale (Mah) bt 2-Shriyanshi Pardeshi (MP) 21-11, 16-21, 22-20.
U-17: 1-Karishma Wadkar (Mah) bt 16-Anura Prabhudesai (Goa) 21-14, 21-14; 8-R Santoshi Hasini (AP) bt Aditi Anand (TN) 4-1 retd.; 3-Parikh Anoushka (Guj) bt 13-Pooja D (AP) 20-22, 21-14, 21-12; Ashwini Bhat K (Kar) bt 6-Garg Kuhoo (Utr) 21-15, 23-25, 21-15; 5-Priya Sri Krishna (AP) bt Sonika Sai P (AP) 21-19, 21-15; 11-Shikha Gautam (Mah) bt 4-Malvika JK (Ker) 21-14, 17-21, 21-11; 7-Kanika Kanwal (Del) bt Rahi Doshi (Guj) 21-4, 21-16; 2-Shriyanshi Pardeshi (MP) bt 10-Mahima Aggarwal (Kar) 21-13, 21-17.