Ansal, Lakshya, Rahul, Aryaman in semis of AIPSSB B’minton
11 February, Chandigarh
Top seed Ansal Yadav of HPCL defeated Sourab Sharma (ONGC) 21-15 21-17 in the men’s singles quarter-final match in the All-India Public Sector Sports Board Badminton Tournament at the Tau Devi Lal Indoor Badminton Hall in Sector 3 in Panchkula Saturday.
Lakshya Sen (ONGC), Rahul Bhardwaj (AI) and Aryaman Tandan (AI) joined Ansal in the semi-finals round. Lakshya Sen beat Laa Talar (HPCL) 21-14 21-9 and Rahul Bhardwaj ousted Krishna Prasad (ONGC) 21-15 21-9 in quarter-final round.
Aryaman Tandan defeated Saurav Kapoor 21-16 21-19 to complete the semi-final line-up.Results:Men’s singles (q-finals): Ansal Yadav (HPCL)[1] bt Sourab Sharma (ONGC) 21-15 21-17; Lakshya Sen (ONGC) bt Laa Talar (HPCL) 21-14 21-9; Rahul Bhardwaj (AI) bt Krishna Prasad (ONGC) 21-15 21-9; Aryaman Tandan (AI) bt Saurav Kapoor (RBI) 21-16 21-19.Women’s singles (q-finals): Manali Sinha (BSNL)[1] bt Hena Das (ESIC) 21-8 21-10; Rasika Raje (AAI) bt (FCI) Gouri Asija 21-17 21-7; Anura Prabhu Desai (AAI) bt Kanika Kanwal (AI) 21-11 21-12; Shreyanshi Pardeshi (ONGC) bt (BSNL) Sumitra Pujari[2] 21-8 Ret..Men’s doubles (q-finals): Chirag Sen/Aryaman Tandan (AI) bt Kaushik Pal/N. Srujan (FCI) 21-17 21-10; Rupesh Kumar/V. Diju (ONGC)[3/4] bt Kaushal Dharmamer/Rupinder Singh (AAI) 21-13 21-13; C. B./Sourab Sharma (ONGC)[3/4] bt Soumen
Bhattacharya/Jaison Xavier (LIC) 21-9 21-18; Dhruv Kapila/Sanyam Shukla (AI)[2] (FCI) Davinder Dhillon/Mayank Behal 7-2 rtd. Women’s doubles (q-finals): Hena Das/Mohita Sahdev (ESIC) bt (LIC) Leena Dhopre/Varada Dixit 21-19 21-16; Karishma Wadkar/Mahima Aggarwal (AAI) bt Gouri Asija/Vallari Bukane (FCI) 21-15 21-13; Kanika Kanwal/Sonika Sai (AI)[2] (LIC) Tharannum Parveen/Shraddha 11-6.