Rushendra and Sree Rakshitha emerge as junior National badminton champions
The Hindu
Telengana's Rushendra Thirupathi & S. Sree Rakshitha win boys' & girls' singles titles at 46th Junior Nat'l Badminton Championship. Nicholas Nathan Raj & Tushar Suveer (Kar) & Radhika Sharma & Tanvi Sharma (Pun) win boys' & girls' doubles titles. K. Satwik Reddy & Vaishnavi Khadkekar (TS) win mixed doubles.
The Telengana duo of Rushendra Thirupathi and S. Sree Rakshitha emerged the boys’ and girls’ singles champions respectively at the Yonex-Sunrise 46th Junior National Badminton Championship here on Tuesday.
The results (finals): Singles: Boys: Rushendra Thirupathi (TS) bt Samarveer (Chg) 21-18, 18-21, 21-16; girls: S. Sree Rakshitha (TS) bt Anmol Kharb (Har) 9-21, 21-13, 21-18.
Doubles: Boys: Nicholas Nathan Raj & Tushar Suveer (Kar) bt Bhavya Chhabra & Param Choudhary (Del) 7-21, 21-11, 21-13; girls: Radhika Sharma & Tanvi Sharma (Pun) bt Gayatri Rawat & Mansa Rawat (Utk) 21-15 14-21 21-18.
Mixed doubles: K. Satwik Reddy & Vaishnavi Khadkekar (TS) bt Samarveer (Chg) & Radhika Sharma (Pun) 14-21, 22-20, 21-18.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.