Seeded Prashant, Sayali exit

PUNE, June 23: Fourth seed Prashant Bahatre of Nanded and Sayali Gokhale of Pune joined the list of early casualties, when both the playe...

PUNE, June 23: Fourth seed Prashant Bahatre of Nanded and Sayali Gokhale of Pune joined the list of early casualties, when both the players were knocked-out by unseeded opponents on the second day of the XII Rainbow Open junior state-level badminton championship being played at the WIE sports complex, here today.

Prashant Bahatre was in for a surprise as his unseeded rival and local lad Sameer Bhagwat fought tooth and nail, winning 15-12, 15-13 in the junior boys singles second round. Following Prashant was Sayali, who took the first game quite comfortably 11-6 against her citymate Poonam Walimbe, but was clueless as Poonam bounced back to win 11-8, 11-4 in the sub junior girls singles.

Results
Boys
Jr singles: 1-Varun Khanwalkar Pn bt Vikrant Parbat Pn 15-3, 15-3; Rahul Tipnis bt Amol Kanade 10-15, 15-10, 17-15; Sameer Bhagwat Pn bt 4-Prashant Bahatre Nanded 15-12, 15-13; Vinayak Putra MS bt Akshay Thakkar Tn 15-5, 15-4; Nitin Ingole Nsk bt Nikhil Lokhande Pn 12-15, 15-8, 15-1; 3-Nishad Dravid Dhule bt Rajneelam Bansode Pn 15-5, 15-5; Sumedh Deorukhkar Pn bt Ninad Khade Pn 15-1, 15-11; 2-Himanshu Thakkar Tn bt Anupam Singh MS 15-9, 10-15; 15-5.

Sub-Jr singles: 1-Nishad Dravid Bhule bt Sachin Sheth MS 15-0, 15-0; Ajay Jayram MS bt 8-Pranav Khol Pn 15-12, 9-15; 15-4; 3-Ajit Phatak Pn bt Nitesh Joshi Pn 15-4, 15-1; 7-Aditya Chitre Pn bt Siddharth Pillay Tn 15-3, 15-1; 4-Akshay Thakkar Tn bt Parag Tulpule Pn 15-2, 15-3; 5-Soham Gadgil Pn bt Harshad Bhagwat Pn 15-3, 15-0; 2-Amar Mohite Nag bt Abhishek Bhide MS 15-8, 15-0.

Girls
Jr singles: 1-Mugda Bhagwat Pn bt Anuj Wadke MS w/o; Neha Gangule GB bt Manasi Bhave Pn 11-8, 11-5; Nupura Bhide MS bt Rashmi Yeolekar Tn 11-3, 11-0; Nikita Hurkadli MS bt Arti Mankad Aur 11-0, 11-1; Aditi Kulkarni MS bt Sampada Pai MS 11-0, 11-0; Dhanya Nair Pn bt Prajakta Marathe GB w/o; 2-Gauri Narayanan MS bt Prachi Raje 11-1, 11-2.

Sub Jr singles: 1-Nikita Hurkadi MS bt Priyanka Shab Pn 11-0, 11-2; Shipi Kankane Pn bt Arti Mankar Aur 11-2, 11-1; Poonam Walimbe Pn bt 4-Sayali Gokhale Pn 6-11, 11-8, 11-4; Gauri Bhange Pn bt Manasi Bhave 11-0, 11-3; Meghana Pawaskar Pn bt Amruta Sawant MS 11-0, 11-7; 3-Riddhi Panjwan MS bt Manasi Marathe Aur 11-7, 11-2; Aditi Mutatkar Pn bt Neha Verma Aur 11-3, 11-3; 2-Dhanya Nair Pn bt Manasi Joshi Pn 11-3, 11-2.