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MUMBAI, August 5: Unseeded Uma Mahadevan upset top seed Mayura Wagle 13-10, 11-9 in the junior girls' semi-finals of the Thane District badminton championships at the Indoor Stadium today.
Uma will now play Rashmi Yeolekar, who defeated Deepali Upadhyay 11-0, 11-4 in the other semi-final.
Merric Gonsalves and Suraj Thakur played tough three-game matches before advancing in the junior boys' singles. Gonsalves beat Deepak Laad 10-15, 15-12, 15-12 while Thakur overcame Thakkar 15-3, 10-15, 15-10.
Another one to survive a close test was Ashish Bhide with a 15-8, 6-15, 15-10 win over Dinkar Bhatta.
Nine-year-old Kadambari Chedda proved that size doesn't matter when she fought hard against 12-year-old Manasi Agaokar before achieving a 10-13, 13-11, 11-2 win.
Other results
Men's singles: Anupam Singh bt Luckish Somne 15-3, 15-8; Benhur Soloman bt Ajay Salvi 15-7, 15-3; Gunjan Deshmukh bt Ashish Bhide 15-4, 17-14; Raghav Bhosale bt Bharat Bhosale 15-4, 15-9; Bhushan Paithankar bt Jagdish MUMBAI, August 5: Unseeded Uma Mahadevan upset top seed Mayura Wagle 13-10, 11-9 in the junior girls' semi-finals of the Thane District badminton championships at the Indoor Stadium today.
Uma will now play Rashmi Yeolekar, who defeated Deepali Upadhyay 11-0, 11-4 in the other semi-final.
Merric Gonsalves and Suraj Thakur played tough three-game matches before advancing in the junior boys' singles. Gonsalves beat Deepak Laad 10-15, 15-12, 15-12 while Thakur overcame Thakkar 15-3, 10-15, 15-10.
Another one to survive a close test was Ashish Bhide with a 15-8, 6-15, 15-10 win over Dinkar Bhatta.
Nine-year-old Kadambari Chedda proved that size doesn't matter when she fought hard against 12-year-old Manasi Agaokar before achieving a 10-13, 13-11, 11-2 win.
Other results
Men's singles: Anupam Singh bt Luckish Somne 15-3, 15-8; Benhur Soloman bt Ajay Salvi 15-7, 15-3; Gunjan Deshmukh bt Ashish Bhide 15-4, 17-14; Raghav Bhosale bt Bharat Bhosale 15-4, 15-9; Bhushan Paithankar bt JagdishPatel 15-5, 15-12.
Sub-junior girls: Poorna Misra bt Meghna Aroskar 11-8, 11-1.
Sub-junior girls: Amruta Raje bt Sidhi Nadkarni 11-3, 11-2; Prerna Shetty bt Manasi Khetrapal 11-2, 11-4.
Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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