Chandigarh girls reached the semi-finals of badminton championship
Chandigarh: Rajasthan defeated Himachal Pradesh 3-0 in the first quarterfinal match of the Yonex Sunrise North Zone Interstate Senior & Junior (U-19) Badminton Championship-2024 which began at Sector 38 Sports Complex. In the opening game, Shivansh lost 19-21, 21-11, 13-21 against Pranay Katta while Harsh Chaplot defeated Karan Choudhary 9-21, 13-21. In the last game, the pair of Parthiv and Samakh Dhalta lost 11-21, 16-21 against Danish Srivastava and Shubham Patel. T L Satya Prakash, Commissioner and Secretary, Government of Haryana was the chief guest and started the tournament by playing an exhibition match with the office bearers of Chandigarh Badminton Association. A march-past of the participating teams was also held.
The teams of Delhi and Chandigarh were declared the best turnout and second best turnout teams respectively and were awarded trophies. In the matches, Punjab registered a 3-0 win over Jammu and Kashmir. Lakshya Sharma easily defeated Bhavya Sharma 21-10, 21-15 while Shikhar Rallan defeated Raghav Dogra 21-14, 21-11 to give Punjab a 2-0 lead. In the last match, the team of Adhyayan Kakkar and Mridul Jha defeated Harsh Mahajan and Paranjay 21-16, 19-21, 21-13. Haryana defeated hosts Chandigarh, with Manraj Singh winning 21-7, 11-21 over Mohit Singh and Samarveer losing 14-21, 16-21 to Gautam Arora. In the doubles match, Kevin CC Wong and Mohit lost 21-23, 21-23 against Anshul Budhwar and Sunny Nehra.
In the women’s team event, Haryana defeated Himachal Pradesh 3-0. Devika Sihag won an easy match against Bharti Sharma 21-15, 21-6, while Unnati Hooda defeated Pakhi 21-12, 21-10. Apoorva and Sakshi Gehlawat defeated Jyotishka and Tejaswani 21-7, 21-14. The host team defeated Jammu and Kashmir 3-0. After a fluctuating match, Unnati Jaral lost to local rival Rijul Saini 21-16, 17-21, 16-21, while Mehnoor defeated Skideep Kaur 21-17, 21-16 and Krishika Mahajan and Skideep Kaur lost to Jasmeet Kaur/Naina Trehan 21-12, 17-21, 20-22.
