New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): India’s budding shuttlers Tara Shah and Rakshitha Sree comfortably received their respective matches and moved to the spherical of 16 on the Badminton Asia Junior Championships held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday.
Tara Shah exhibited distinctive expertise and aggression as she dominated her opponent, Miku Kohara of Japan all through the match and received with a surprising scoreline of 21-6, 21-17. Tara will tackle China’s Xu Wen Jing within the subsequent spherical.
Rakshitha Sree additionally displayed her prowess on the courtroom as she triumphed over Malaysia’s Carine Tee with a powerful rating of 21-8, 21-10 in a match that lasted 24 minutes. She will face Huang Lin Ran of China within the pre-quarterfinal.
The ladies’ doubles duo of Taneesha and Karnika received in opposition to Bui and Tran of Japan 21-14, 21-19 in 27 minutes. They will sq. off in opposition to Chen Fan Shu and Jiang Pei Xi of China within the spherical of 16 matches tomorrow.
In boys’ singles, Ayush Shetty showcased resilience in opposition to Japan’s Yuna Nakagawa in a hard-fought match however in the end misplaced 19-21, 22-20, 16-21 in a detailed match. Similarly within the combined doubles, Samarveer and Radhika Sharma narrowly missed out on a win in an exhilarating three-game encounter in opposition to China’s Gao Jia Xuan and Chen Fan Shu Tian, because the latter received 21-19, 19-21, 17-21.
The boys’ doubles pair of DivyamMayank and Nicholas RajTushar Suveer misplaced their matches and bowed out of the match whereas the ladies’ doubles duo of Tanvi Sharma and Radhika Sharma additionally ended their marketing campaign within the spherical of 32.
Meanwhile, within the boys’ singles, Lakshay Sharma and Samarveer and within the ladies’ singles category- Shriyanshi Valishetty and Anmol Kharb gave their all however misplaced their respective matches. Arul Murugan and Srinidhi Narayanan additionally went down combating of their spherical of 32 matches. (ANI)