Bharat Raghav raised his recreation to knock out top-seeded Lakshya Sen in the quarterfinals of the eighty fifth Senior Nationals Badminton Championship 2023 at Guwahati on Friday, December 22.
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Tanvi Sharma put paid to Aakarshi Kashyap’s hopes in the quarterfinals of the eighty fifth Senior Nationals Badminton Championship 2023 at Guwahati on Friday, December 22.
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RITU RAJ KONWAR
Bharat Raghav of Haryana ended top-seed Lakshya Sen’s run in the males’s singles quarterfinals, with an intensely fought 15-21, 21-15, 21-17 win in 56 minutes, and arrange a conflict with Telangana’s M. Tharun, the fourth seed, in the eighty fifth Senior National badminton championships right here on Friday.
Tharun, who has been the most constant amongst the prime gamers in the match to date, was scientific in his victory over Maharashtra’s Varun Kapoor, who retired in the second recreation after shedding the first.
An hour or so earlier, 15-year-old Tanvi Sharma of Punjab performed like a veteran to dispatch top-seeded Aakarshi Kashyap of Chhattisgarh in the ladies’s quarterfinals.
Playing in his first senior Nationals, Bharat, Lakshya’s follow associate at the Prakash Padukone Academy in Bengaluru, put up a mature show, attacking and defending with aplomb.
Lakshya was main 10-7 and 11-8 in the third recreation. But Bharat fought again, defending nicely and utilizing his leap smashes judiciously. From 11-all, Bharat held the higher hand and as soon as he took a 17-13 lead, he appeared assured and went after the Petroleum’s star.
“I have been training in PPA for the last two years. I play matches with Lakshya and train with Mithun and others. It is a great victory,” Bharat advised The Hindu.
Trained by mom Meena Sharma in Hoshiarpur, Tanvi put forth a improbable exhibition of inch-perfect drops and good backcourt play to outwit the prime seed in all method doable.
Railways’ Chirag Sen, Lakshya’s elder brother, has been a stand-out participant at the Nationals and his confidence had risen after the win over the third seed Kartikey Gulshan Kumar in the second spherical on Thursday. It was evident in the method of his victory over Arya Bhivpathaki in the quarterfinals.
Chirag will tackle second seed Kiran George of RBI in the semifinals. Kiran scripted a snug win over M. Mithun of Railways 21-12, 21-13.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Men: Bharat Raghav (Har) bt Lakshya Sen (Pet) 21-15, 10-21, 21-17; M. Tharun (TS) bt Varun Kapur (Mah) 21-7, 13-3 (retd.) 21-7, 13-3 (retd.); Chirag Sen (Rlys) bt Arya Bhivpathaki (Mah) 24-22, 21-14; Kiran George (RBI) bt M. Mithun (Rlys) 21-12, 21-13.
Women: Tanvi Sharma (Pun) bt Aakarshi Kashyap (CG) 21-15, 22-20; Ishrani Baruah (Asm) bt Sriyanshi Valishetty (TS) 21-14, 14-21, 21-10; Anmol Kharb (Har) bt Mansi Singh (AAI) 21-15, 21-14; Ashmita Chaliha (Asm) bt M. Meghana Reddy (TS) 21-15, 21-19.
