Last Updated: October 23, 2023, 11:17 IST
Unnati Hooda (proper) and Samia Imad Faooqui. (Pic Credit: X/BAI_Media)
Unnati Hooda defeated compatriot Samiya Imad Farooqui in straight video games to win the ladies’s singles title.
India girls’s badminton doubles group of Ashwini Ponappa and Tanisha Crasto defeated Denmark’s Julie Finne-Ipsen and Mai Surrow within the ultimate to win the Abu Dhabi Matsers, a Super 100 occasion.
Ponappa-Crasto took the title in three video games with a scoreline of 21-16, 16-21, 21-8 in a contest that lasted 58 minutes.
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The Indian duo began the occasion because the favourites and didn’t disappoint. After getting a bye within the first spherical, they brushed apart UAE’s Farah Alhajji and Ghadeer Ali Altahri 21-3, 21-3.
In the final-4 stage, they had been up towards compatriots Sikki Reddy and Arathi Sara Sunil and Ponappa-Crasto gained the competition 21-16, 21-14 to enter the finale.
Meanwhile, the ultimate of the ladies’s singles occasion was an all-India affair with Unnati Hooda defeating Samiya Imad Farooqui in straight video games.
The 16-12 months-previous Unnati beat 20-12 months-previous Samiya 21-16, 22-20 to clinch what’s the second Super 100 title of her profession.
Unnati was in spectacular kind all through the competitors and outshined high-seed Thet Htar Thuzar within the semis, successful 21-18, 21-12.
The Indian contingent returned empty handed from the lads’s occasion although.
In the lads’s singles occasion, Kiran George and Raghu Mariswamy did not progress past the semis whereas the lads’s doubles and blended doubles groups exited within the quarters.