Facile win: Rituparna was hardly troubled by Chitwan.
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Rituparna Das is on a comeback path however accidents to her left ankle and proper wrist (she underwent a surgical procedure) haven’t utterly healed. However, the 27-year-old — a former National girls’s singles champion in 2017 — is hopeful of sorting issues out and preparing for the challenges forward.
In truth, 2017 was one of the best 12 months for Rituparna as she additionally attained a career-high world rating of 44. That, nonetheless, has now slipped to 219 and he or she is aware of there aren’t any easy options.
“I am just trying to get back [to full fitness]. I will play in the International Challenge in Azerbaijan and Sri Lanka in February 2024,” mentioned Rituparna, after a facile 21-11, 21-11 win over Chitwan Khatri of Haryana within the eighty fifth senior National badminton championships right here on Wednesday. She will play the highest seed Aakarshi Kashyap of Chhattisgarh within the second spherical.
Petroleum’s B. Sai Praneeth, the 2019 World championships bronze medallist, gave a walkover to Saahas Kumar Potiki Reddi of Telangana within the males’s singles first spherical.
Later, Tamil Nadu’s Okay. Sathish Kumar, singles champion within the lately concluded Odisha Masters, scripted a assured 21-17, 21-11 win over Harshit Thakur of Chhattisgarh to enter the second spherical. All the highest gamers have been given a bye within the first spherical.
The outcomes (first spherical): Men: Saahas Kumar Potiki Reddi (TS) w/o B. Sai Praneeth (Pet); Okay. Sathish Kumar (TN) bt Harshit Thakur (Cha) 21-17, 21-11; Chirag Sen (Rlys) bt S. Sankar Muthusamy (TN) 9-8 (retd.); T. Sidarth (TN) bt Dhruv Prasad (Chan) 21-13, 23-21; Dhruv Rawat (Utr) bt Siddharth Pratap Singh (Rlys) 21-19, 21-19; Ayush Shetty (Kar) bt Adheep Gupta (Guj) 22-20,2 1-17; Okay. Tarun Reddy (TS) bt Raghav Dogra (J&Okay) 21-15, 21-9; Chirag Seth (UP) bt Venkata Sai (AP) 321-15, 21-17; Lokesh Reddy (AP) bt Tukum Laa (AR) 21-9, 21-17; Aditya Joshi (Pet) bt Saurav Kapoor (RBI) 21-16, 3-3 (retd.).
Women: Rituparna Das (Pet) bt Chitwan Khatri (Har) 21-11, 21-11; Anura Prabhudesai (Rlys) bt Krishika Mahajan (J&Okay) 21-15, 21-14; L. Sreshta Reddy (TS) bt Lalrinhlui (Miz) 21-4, 21-7; Rutvi Baloni (Guj) bt Namita Pathania (CAG) 18-21, 27-25, 21-7; Jahnavi Nammi (AP) bt P. Srija (Bih) 21-6, 21-15; Pranika Holkar (MP) bt Harshitaa Rout (Odi) 21-18, 21-14; Tanvi Sharma (PNB) bt Tanya Hemanth (AAI) 21-16, 21-11; Malvika Bansod (RBI) bt Mayuri Barman (Asm) 21-6, 21-16.
