Mumbai, July 12: Unseeded Arjun Ashra caused a big upset on the rain hit second of the Greater Mumbai District Badminton championship at the Cricket Club of India on Wednesday when he defeated second seed Zareer Warden in the quarter-final encounter of the sub-junior boys singles event. Arjun won 17-14, 15-13.Other results:Men's singles (I round): Deepak Jaitly bt Anant Chavan 15-4 15-7, Kunal Vaswani bt V Sujaykumar 15-5 15-0.Boys singles (I Round): Anirudh Solanki bt Sidharth Chhabra 15-4 15-1, Sushil Sawant bt Kartik Mohota 15-3 15-4, Nikhil Mutha bt Manmeet Soni 15-6 15-5.Mini boys singles (SF): Amay Merchant bt Keshav Mohota 15-4 15-2.Midget girls singles (QF): Aanchal Vaswani bt Antara Ashra 11-0 11-1, Maithili Parekh bt Pooja Todi 11-2 11-2, Madhura Paranjape bt Tanvi Ajmera 11-9 11-1.Midget boys singles (QF): Amay Merchant bt Param Gandhi 15-4, 15-4.Sub-junior girls singles (QF): Maitrayee Nigwekar bt Pooja Brar 12-13 11-7 11-3.Power failure halt matchesDue to heavy rain and power failure, the matches of the 14th Thane District Badminton championship could not be played at the Navi Mumbai Sports Association on Wednesday.Following are the results of the matches played earlier:Men's singles: Sumedh Deorukhkar bt Raghav Bhosale 15-7 15-7, Prashant Balatre bt Mevric Gonsalves 15-10 15-10, B Soloman bt Gunjan Deshmukh 15-12 15-13.Sub-junior boys singles: Akshay Dewalkar bt Nishant Gupte 15-8 15-2, Arohan Singh bt Amey Joshi 15-4 15-7.Mini girls (SF): Rucha Ganpule bt Gauri Joshi 4-11 11-9 11-6, Kavita Chavan bt Vipasha Pande 11-3 11-3.Midget girls singles: Parnita Jatkar bt Manjiri Meghe 11-7 11-4.Washed outHavy downpour washed out the Maharashtra District Football Association's League matches at the St Xavier's Ground, Parel on Wednesday.
