Badminton

Onnati and Ayush continued to shine as India maintained their dominance at the World Junior Badminton Championships.

Unnati Hooda and Ayush Shetty continued their winning streak as Indian juniors won 10 of 12 encounters in the round of 16 on the second day of the BWF World Junior Championships in Spokane, USA, early on Wednesday.

In the men’s singles division, Aayush Shetty defeated second seed Eugene Iwi of Malaysia in a close match that ended with a score of 21-17, 21-17.

In the women’s singles match, Onati Hooda defeated Poland’s Joanna Poddorny with a score of 21-14, 21-9 in just 22 minutes.

Mixed doubles pair Samarveer/Radhika Sharma recorded a convincing 21-12, 21-11 victory against Estonian pair Andre Schmidt/Emilie Barcem. Meanwhile, Kannapuram’s Sathwik Reddy and Vaishnavi Khadkekar dominated the match against Portugal’s Thiago Berenguer and Marta Souza en route to a 21-15, 21-6 victory.

In the women’s doubles category, the pair Venala Kalagotla/Sriyanshi Valishiti overcame the defeat in the first match against the Indonesian pair Nabila Kahya Permata Ayu/Reva Olivia Damayani and won the next two matches to achieve a draw with scores of 13 -21 and 21-. 19., 11-21. Tanvi Sharma and Radhika Sharma scored a convincing 21-16, 21-8 victory against Tahitians Hirotia Koret and Maeva Gaillard in just 20 minutes.

Lokesh Reddy Kalagotla and Devika Sihag tried their best in their matches but were defeated. Lokesh suffered an 18-21, 16-21 defeat against Japan’s Roy Sato while Devika lost the fight to China’s Dai Chen Yi in a close match that ended 18-21, 21-18, 20-22 .

Tusshar Suveer (men’s singles) and Tara Shah (women’s singles), along with their doubles partners Tusshar Suveer and Nicholas Raj, Divyam Arora and Mayank Rana, also registered victories and secured a place in the round of 16. at a later time.

– Team of sports stars