Kshatriya sends top-seed packing

Unseeded Sachin Kshatriya,a well-built youngster with a penchant for aggression,kept his nerve to upset top seed Akshat Patil 21-14,21-19 in his men’s singles quarterfinal and storm into the semifinals of the Mumbai Suburban District Badminton Championships at Andheri’s Celebration Club in Lokhandwala on Tuesday. The bespectacled Patil did have his moments initially but lost his way midway with Kshatriya keeping him busy and making him stretch with drop shots to wrap up the game.

Results: Men’s singles (Pre-quarterfinals): Sandeep Dhillon bt Vrushank Thakur 30-24; Arijit Bose bt Likhit Bangera 30-21; Harsh Chouhan bt Siddharth Gupta 30-22; Akshat Patil bt Aakash Wagh 30-8; Ateet Mhambre bt Chandrakant D 30-24; Kevi Kapadia bt Dhruv Agarwal 30-20; Anmol Behrani bt Akshay Sandhu 30-13; Sachin Kshatriya bt Anmol Hindalekar 30-11; (Quarterfinals): Sachin Kshatriya bt Akshat Patil 21-14,21-19; Arijit Bose bt Ateet Mhambre 21-6,21-8; Boys’ U-13 singles (Pre-quarterfinals): Akshan Shetty bt Vishrut Kumar 30-8; Pranav Jain bt Varun Mazumdar 30-21; Girls’ U-13 singles (Quarterfinals): Pooja Devlekar bt Chatra Shetty 21-8,21-6; Namita Shetty bt Greeshna Jagdish 21-7,21-8,Simran Singhi bt Tanisha Kothari 21-6,21-6; Archita Malgaonkar bt Diksha Hardasani 21-13,21-6; Boys’ U-10 singles (Quarterfinals): Varun Dave bt Medhnsh Sharma 21-4,21-2; Arnav Deshmuh bt Ansh Mehta 21-7,21-4; Tanishaq Saxena bt Advait Mandge 21-12,21-6.