City shuttlers made it to the third round in Yonex Sunrise Maharashtra State Junior Badminton Championship organised by Nagpur District Badminton Association (NDBA) at Subhedar Hall, here on Thursday.
City’s Nikkita Joseph stretched by Greater Mumbai’s Karishma Khardikar in the second round.  Nikkita  won first game 2-11 easily. However in the second game, Karishma regain her form and restored parity by winning it 21-17. In the decider that was also keenly contested, Nikkita downed her opponent 21-16 on the basis of powerful smashing.
However other city shuttlers had smooth sailing in the third round. Kripi Sajwan, Chaitali Nayse, Sophia Simon,  Pinak Rokde, Livia Fernandez, Bhargavi Rambhad, Arya Anchalwar in the girls section entered the third round. In the boys category, Gandhar Nawale , Nabeel Ahmed and  Sifat Arora entered the third round.
Results
U-19 girls singles (Round 2): 1-Rudra Rane bt Gayatri Kuchekar 21-11, 21-15; Aasavari Khandekar bt Radha Nayse 21-2, 21-2; Prutha Dekate bt Nakshatra Sharma 21-11, 21-14; Rhucha Sawant bt Shruti Chokhandre 21-18, 21-14; Hrissha Dubey bt Rucha Alvekar 21-10, 11-21, 21-7; Kripi Sajwan bt Gargee Degvekar 21-18, 21-19; Janhavi Kanitkar bt Saee Shete 21-8, 21-5; Sophia Simon bt Krutadnya Deogade 21-10, 21-13; Devika Kawale bt Shruti Phanse 21-9, 21-10; Urvi Thakurdesai bt Saie Nandurkar 21-19, 21-16; Chaitali Nayse bt Nidhi Dave 21-9, 21-11; Tanishka Deshpande bt Renuka Shrimanwar 21-7, 21-6; Pinak Rokde bt Saanvi Mukadam 21-12, 21-12; Nikkita Joseph bt Karishma Khardikar 21-11, 17-21, 21-16; Livia Fernandez bt Shatakshi Kinikar 21-15, 21-16; Sanika Durugkar bt Amulya Lanjewar 21-16, 17-21, 21-16; Riya Kunjir bt Aditi Tadas 21-15, 21-16; Riya Habbu bt Shreya Nandanwar 21-10, 21-14; Bhargavi Rambhad bt Sanaea Patrawala 21-12, 21-14; Arya Anchalwar bt Manali Parulekar 21-12, 21-8; 2-Siddhi Jadhav bt Aastha Warkad 21-12, 21-3.
U-19 boys singles (Round 3): 1-Rahoul Kanne bt Sri Harsha Jalumuru 21-13, 21-8; Madhav Khandelwal bt Asit Desai 14-21, 21-15, 24-22; Shreesh Kashyap bt Makarand Nimbalkar 23-21, 14-21, 21-19; Gandhar Nawale bt Waleed Shaikh 21-12, 21-8; Harshal Jadhav bt Aaryan Lambat 21-11, 21-9; Vinil Mokhade bt Animesh Ghate 21-14, 21-14; Shantanu Pawar bt Prathmesh Kulkarni 20-22, 21-15, 21-13; Nabeel Ahmed bt Aarsh Verma 21-19, 21-10; Atharva Joshi bt Sahil Jalgaonkar 21-10, 21-6; Kirtesh Chaudhari bt Aditya Pimpalnerkar 21-9, 21-8; Prajwal Hundekar bt Sarang Walke 18-21, 21-7, 21-17; Aniket Bandgar bt Amay Makode 21-8, 21-7; Rohan Thool bt Digvijaysingh Rajput 21-13, 21-18; Athang Bhakare bt Yash Pawar 13-21, 22-20, 21-17; Sifat Arora bt Vaibhav Tewari 21-16, 14-21, 21-19; Yash Suryavanshi bt Saish Ugemuge 21-7, 21-9.
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