Easy for Tarun Chauhan and Deepti Ranjan

NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 7: Tarun Chauhan did not have to exert himself to move into the men's singles second round in the Delhi State Badmin...

NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 7: Tarun Chauhan did not have to exert himself to move into the men’s singles second round in the Delhi State Badminton Championships at the I G Stadium here today. He defeated N K Gupta with a comfortable 15-0, 15-0 win to move into the second round.

Hemant Duggal, too, had an easy outing against Sandeep, conceding just a point in his two games before advancing into the next round. Sanjeev Sharma defeated Lal Sngh Yadav 15-8, 15-7 in another first-round encounter.

In girls (under-16) second round match, Deepti Ranjan beat Sona Khan 11-1, 11-1. Akansha Nehra won both her second round matches in under-10 and under-13 categories.

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Other easy winners included Minakshi Nair, Chitralekha, Gauri Chopra, Shweta and Anuradha among girls.

Results: Girls singles u-10 (2nd round): Akansha N Ohra b Varindera Kumari Aizda 11-2, 11-0; Nimisha Parthi b Raghvi Mittal 11-0, 11-0; Subhi Parkash b Ankita 11-6, 11-5. Girls singles u-13 (2nd round): Akansha Nehra b Ishita 11-0, 11-2; Minakshi Nair b Aparna More 11-0, 11-4; Raghvi Mittal b Supreot 6-11, 11-4, 11-5; Chitralekha b Richa Trikha 11-0, 11-1; Anuradha b Ruch Vinay Joshi 11-0, 11-0; Gauri Chopra b Anshika Kalia 11-1, 11-6; Shweta b Richa Saini 11-5, 11-3; Neha b Mohita Sehdev 11-0, 11-1. Boys singles u-13 (2nd round): Amir Khan b Ankit Jain 15-4, 15-10; Rohit b Gajinder Singh Rawat 15-1, 15-10; Ashmeet Singh b Aneesh George 15-0, 15-4; Rohit b Gyanesh Wahi 15-7, 15-5; Nitin Bhagat b Gaurnshu Chopra 15-0, 15-3; Rahul b Vipin Singh 17-15, 15-4; Pyush b Jayant Ramachandran 15-0, 15-0; Akash b Arpit Varsh 15-0, 15-0.

Boys singles u-10 (2nd round): Rahul Khera b Karan Topish 15-0, 15-1; Ankit Garg b Sandeep Arora 15-1, 15-0; Sachin Bisht b Sarat 15-9, 15-4; Kshitij b Harmandeep Singh 18-16, 11-15, 16-18; Neeraj Nair b Priyank Arora 15-4, 15-6.

Boys singles u-19 (1st round): Madhavan b Prany Gupta 15-5, 15-6; Gaurav Kapoor b Harpreet Singh Sandhu 15-2, 15-0; Karan Sethi b Vijay K. Manocha 15-5, 5-15, 15-3; Anup Mittal b Uruj Omar Khan 15-11, 15-1; Amit Chaudhary b Harpreet 15-7, 14-17, 15-10; Saurabh Jain-II b Ankur Singhania 15-13, 15-3; Rajiv Bajaj b Himanshu Suri Muhashar Khan b Rohit Ahuja 15-0, 15-0; Saurabh Jain b Rohit Awashthi 15-2, 15-2; Ashish Mishra b Rajinder Aggarwal 15-1, 15-1. Men singles (1st round): Sunil Pandey b Pardeep Kumar 15-1, 15-1; Sanjeev Sharma b Lal Singh Yadav 15-8, 15-7; Rudra Kaushik b Aditya Gulati 15-0, 15-3; Lalit Tyagi b Pradeep-II 15-0, 15-2; Manish Sood b Sanjeev 15-0, 15-1; Harjit Singh b Sandeep Juneja 15-2, 15-0; Tarun Chauhan b N. K. Gupta 15-0, 15-0; Hemant Duggal b Sandeep 15-1, 15-1. Girls singles u-16 (2nd round): Deepti Ranjan bt Sona Khan 11-1, 11-1.

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