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Second seed Kajal Panwar of Hapur easily defeated Nehal Pal of Varanasi by 15-6, 15-7. The results are: Men’s Doubles (quarter-finals) – Ayush Agarwal (Agra) & Daksh Gautam bt Devanshu Jawala & Tushar Sharma by 15-7, 15-12; Atul Kumar & Pradeep Kumar (Saharanpur) bt Junaid Ansari & Vishal Singh Chandel by 15-6, 15-11. The pair of Archit Sinha and Shivam Verma defeated Himanshu Mittal and Pradeep Chaudhary by 15-7, 15-5, and Arush Srivastava and Rajan Yadav advanced to the semi-finals by defeating Farhan Khan and Rahul Kumar Shah 16-14, 15-7 in a hard-fought match. Mixed Doubles (quarter-finals) – The pair of Ashmit Singh (Sonbhadra) and Riddhi Bhardwaj (Hapur) defeated Hisham Aziz (Varanasi) and Sneha Singh (Lucknow) 15-7, 15-10. Archit Sinha and Vibhuti Sinha (Unnao) defeated Ansh Vishal Gupta (Prayagraj) and Saumya Singh 12-15, 15-12, 15-11. Pradeep Chaudhary (Aligarh) and Samiksha Tyagi (Ghaziabad) defeated Nizamuddin (Sitapur) and Shweta Raj Verma (Lucknow) 15-9, 15-6.
Kanpur: Top-seeded Siddharth Mishra of Lucknow, Neer Nehwal and Siddhant Salar sailed into the semi-finals of men’s singles event of Yonex Sunrise Late Sitaram Pandey memorial UP State Senior Major Badminton championship played at Green Park indoor hall on Saturday.
Besides them, Rajan Yadav of UP too entered the last four after defeating Abhyansh Singh of Varanasi by 12-15, 16-14, 15-12. Rajan, losing the first game by 12-15, staged a comeback in the second, registering a win of 16-14. Top seed Divyanshi Gautam drubbed the challenge of Neha Maurya of Noida in two games by 15-10, 15-7.
In women’s singles quarter-finals, seeded players performed according to their name and fame. Game-wise, this was the best quarter-final tie in which both players displayed their skills. Thereafter he maintained his winning rhythm.