All India Junior Ranking badminton | Rohan Gurbani bags bronze medal

This was the second successive third-place finish for Rohan, with his previous one being at Panchkula earlier this month. Gurbani looked confident on Sunday when he took on the court at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence in Bengaluru on Sunday.

The 16th seed wasn’t the favourite against the seventh seed Dhruv Rawat, but came on top with a dominating first game that he won 21-7. However, Gurbani knew that the play-off for the third spot wouldn’t be easy and Rawat showed exactly that.

Also Gurbani’s training partner at the Prakash Padukone Academy, Rawat almost took the match into the third game before Gurbani kept his nerves cool to finish things in straight games with 22-20 win in the second game.

Meanwhile, NDBA has announced the Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Badminton Amateur Sub-Junior tournament from August 29 to September 1, which would see the U-10, U-13 and U-15 athletes fight it out.  It would be held at the Dhanwate National College Indoor Hall.

This has been strictly a tourney for the amateur players, where the top two seeds in any category of the last two tournaments wouldn’t be allowed to play. The last date of entries has been kept on August 26, which can only be done on the MBA website.