All-India Junior Badminton | Maisnam Meiraba and Samiya Imad Farooqui win respective men’s and women’s titles

All-India Junior Badminton | Maisnam Meiraba and Samiya Imad Farooqui win respective men’s and women’s titles

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After an eventful final day at Chennai's Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Manipur’s Maisnam Meiraba and Telangana's Samiya Imad Farooqui lifted their men’s and women’s singles titles. While Meiraba defeated Aakash Yadav, Farooqui overcame the talented Aashi Rawat to win the national tournament.

Meiraba had a very easy outing against Tamil Nadu’s Sathish Kumar where he won 21-13, 21-11 in straight games to seal a berth in the final match. His opponent Yadav also had a straight 21-16, 21-15 win against Manipur’s Bidyasagar Salam.

Hence, a strong match-up was expected on the final day when the two convincing semi-finalists were pitted against each other. However, the match ended in a quite straight-forward manner with the Manipuri winning it 21-9, 12-7. Yadav couldn’t carry on midway and had to call it quits. 

In the girl’s singles title, Farooqui was up against Rawat who had beaten top-seed Gayatri Gopichand in the semis. The no. 16 seed Aashi Rawat was up against the Asia Under-15 champion in what promised to be a mouth-watering final and it had every element of a thriller.

Farooqui started the match stronger by leading 16-12 early on before Rawat fought back to reduce the deficit to 15-17 but eventually, it wasn’t enough as she went down in the first game 17-21. While the first one was hard-fought, the second game was a one-sided affair as Farooqui won it 21-12.

Results-All Finals: Boys Doubles: Ishaan Bhatnagar (CHG) & Vishnuvardhan Goud P (TS X2) bt Manjit Singh Khwairakpam & Dingku Sing Konthoujam (Manipur X1) 21-18, 21-13.

Girls Doubles: Aditi Bhatt (UTR) & Tanisha Crasto (Goa X2) bt Simran Singhi & Ritika Thakar (Mah X6) 21-14, 21-16.

Mixed Doubles: Dingku Singh Konthoujam (Manipur) & Ritika Thacker (Mah X5) bt Ishaan Bhatnagar (CHG) & Tanisha Crasto (Goa) 21-18, 21-12.

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