Pune (Maharashtra) [India], August 31 (ANI): It was a golden day for India on the Late Sushant Chipalkatti Yonex Sunrise India Junior International Grand Prix, held on the P. E. Society’s Modern PDMBA Sports Complex, because the younger Indian shuttlers Vansh Dev-Shravani Walekar and Aanya Bisht-Angel Punera secured two titles in doubles occasions.
Kazuma Kawano of Japan claimed a memorable double crown, profitable the U-19 males’s singles and doubles. The event was organised by the Poona District Metropolitan Badminton Association (PDMBA) below the auspices of BWF, BA, BAI, and MBA, as per a launch from BAI.
In an all-Indian blended doubles closing, the unseeded duo Vansh Dev & Shravani Walekar produced a commanding show to defeat second seeds C Lalramsanga & Taarini Suri in straight video games 21-12, 21-13. The pair sealed the gold in simply 28 minutes, marking a memorable triumph.
In U-19 girls’s doubles, one other unseeded Indian pair, Aanya Bisht & Angel Punera, fought again in model to beat Japan’s fifth seeds Aoi Banno & Yuzu Ueno. After conceding the opening sport 21-23, the Indian duo bounced again with a dominant 21-12 win earlier than holding their nerve in a tense decider to safe the gold 21-17 in an exhilarating 70-minute battle.
A complete prize cash of $ 15,000 (Rs. 13,50,000) was awarded on the occasion. The prizes got away by the hands of Sonali Deshpande, Chairperson of Persistent Foundation, Omar Rashid, Chairman, TOC Badminton Asia, Manoj Patil, Commissioner of Police, Rajesh Bansode, Commissioner of Police(Appar), Meena Chipalkatti, mom of Sushant Chipalkatti, Balkishan Chaudhari of Yonex Sunrise, Aniruddha Deshpande, President of PDMBA, Shashank Halbe, Senior VP of PDMBA, Sushil Jadhav, Head of Lokmanya Sahakari Patpedhi, Sarang Lagu, Director of Lagu Bandhu. CA Ranjit Natu, General Secretary of PDMBA, Vivek Saraf, Rajiv Bag, Organising Secretary, and Sudhanshu Medsikar had been current on the event.
In the all-Japanese closing, ninth-seeded Kazuma Kawano upset second-seeded Hyuga Takano 23-21, 18-21, 25-23 in a 1-hour, 9-minute match. Meanwhile, Yuzuno Watanabe managed to edge out tenth-seeded Yurika Nagafuchi 16-21, 21-13, 21-17 to win the U-19 Women’s singles title.
In the U-19 Men’s Doubles, Kazuma Kawano teamed up with Shuji Sawada to get previous one other Japanese pair of Shunsei Nemoto and Nagi Yoshitsugu, 21-15, 21-18.
With the 2 Indian victories, India shone brightest within the doubles class with its rising teenage skills, concluding the event with two gold medals, one silver, and 4 bronze medals.(ANI)