Sai struggles to get past Omkar

MUMBAI: Top seed Sai Dinesh Reddy pipped Omkar Joshi 30-28 to enter the boys under-15 singles quarterfinals of the Li-NING-JVPGC Suburban District badminton championships, at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana Club, on Thursday.
On the other hand, the girls under-15 top seed, Kalpita Sawant, had it much easy as she outplayed Anagha Karandikar 30-9. Second seeded Pooja Devlekar too made short work of Deeksha Hardasani 30-18.Third seed Simran Singhi, though, was stretched by Archita Malgaonkar, before she previaled 30-26.
In the men's singles round of 32, Purav Suryamurthy, squeezed past Upendra Phadnis 30-29. Pinank Shah beat Amit Deshpande 30-26.
Results: Girls U-15 singles (Pre-quarterfinals): Kalpita Sawant bt Anagha Karandikar 30-9; Jhanvi Jagtap bt Zahra Rassai 30-15; Nivedita Rao bt Nida Menon 30-11; Radhika Dagaonkart bt Chaitra Shetty 30-14; Namitha Shetty bt Janhavi Pandey 30-25; Simran Singhi bt Archita Malgaonkar 30-26; Stutu Agarwal Saakshi Shettty 30-16.