Kanpur: City shuttlers began their campaign in the UP State Senior Badminton Tournament at the Green Park Indoor Hall on a winning note on Thursday.
Around 370 players, including 75 girls, are participating in the four-day championship having prize money of Rs one lakh. In the women’s singles event, players from Kanpur put up impressive performances: Mansa Srivastava (Kanpur) defeated Shahun Singh (Noida) 30-18; Siddhi Jha (Kanpur) beat Jayashree Gupta (Prayagraj) 30-22; Nikita Bhatia (Kanpur) defeated Jyoti Gupta (Maharajganj) 30-26; and Aradhya Yadav (Kanpur) beat Riddhima Chaubey 30-25, all advancing to the next round. In the men’s singles matches, Saurabh Shukla (Prayagraj) defeated Rudrang Yadav (Kanpur) 30-8, Naman Khanna (Kanpur) defeated Ravindra Kumar Priyadarshi (Lucknow) 30-16, and Shivam Shekhar (Ballia) defeated Nikhil Pal (Kanpur) 30-9. Dhruv (Kanpur) defeated Riddhi Vinayak (Prayagraj) 30-6, Atharv Sharma (Meerut) beat Tanishk Kumar Singh (Kanpur) 30-11, and Saumya Prakash Yadav (Prayagraj) defeated Aditya Singh (Lucknow) 30-24 to advance to the next round. Among the girls, Siddhi Jha (Kanpur) defeated Jayashree (Prayagraj) 30-24 to move to the next stage. Aditya Sagar Agrahari (Maharajganj) defeated Nikhil (Banda) 30-10, Aryan Singh (Kanpur) defeated Aarzoo Kushwaha (Kanpur) 30-8, Bhavishya Nagar (Noida) defeated Atharv Agarwal (Bareilly) 30-25, and Vedansh (Mathura) defeated Shivam Joshi (Lucknow) 30-17. Kartik Gupta (Kanpur) defeated Ayush Gaur (Noida) 30-16, Abhijit Singh (Jhansi) defeated Shivam Karata (Moradabad) 30-17, Karan Pratap Singh (Bareilly) defeated Tejas Dixit (Kanpur) 30-4, and Tanmay Pal (Mathura) defeated Vikas Rao (Mirzapur) 30-11.