Lakshya Sen and Gayatri Gopichand breeze into the quarter-finals of the Senior Ranking Tournament
While Lakshya Sen won against Siril Verma, Gayatri Gopichand defeated Vrushali G to qualify to the quarter-finals of the Senior Ranking Tournament in Bengaluru on Friday. Pratul Joshi is also through to quarters after a tight third-round match against Rahul Yadav which he won 20-22, 21-16, 21-12.
Lakshya Sen got the better of Siril Verma in a battle of two former junior World No 1 players at the All India Senior Ranking Tournament in Bengaluru on Friday. This has been one of the two tournaments that
Sen and Verma battled it out for over an hour before the former came out triumphant with a margin of 21-15, 17-21, 21-13 in the third round. Earlier, Sen had beaten ninth seed Rohit Yadav 23-21, 21-9, while Verma had defeated Siddharth Pratap Singh 21-11, 21-16.
Sen, who represented the country at the Thomas Cup recently, would take on an India international in Sourabh Verma in the quarter-finals. Top seed Pratul Joshi had a tough time on the court with Rahul Yadav in the second round. Joshi also got through to the quarters after a tight third-round match against Rahul Yadav, which he won 20-22, 21-16, 21-12.
In the women’s singles draw, Gayatri Gopichand, the 15-year-old daughter of former All England champion and current India national coach P Gopichand, made it through to the quarters after defeating two seeded players.
Gayatri was a game down against both Shruti Mundada and Vrushali G, seeded seventh and 15th, before winning both matches. She edged out Mundada 19-21, 21-17, 27-25, before beating Vrushali 17-21, 21-14, 21-9. Gayatri was on a court for three hours across both matches. She will take on 13th seed Ashmita Chaliha in the quarters.
Third seed Shreyanshi Pardeshi was knocked out by Shikha Gautam 21-16, 21-12 in the third round. Fifth seed Aakarshi Kashyap was through to the quarter-finals after defeating Tanisha Crasto and Malvika Bansod in straight games. Second seed Sai Uttejitha Rao was also through to the last eight, after beating Divyanshi Sharma and Unnati Bisht, the latter in three games.
There were no major upsets in the doubles, except for men’s doubles second seeds Utkarsh Arora and Vighnesh Devlekar being defeated by Tarun K and Saurabh Sharma 12-21, 21-10, 21-18.
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