In the quarter-finals played today at the University Pavilion, Gupta overcame a strong challenge by AVM's (Bandra) Shivam Nayak. After going down 18-21 in the first game, Gupta rallied back in contention, winning the next two 21-14, 21-18.

NRP Seth student, Milap Shah's winning march came to an end when he lost to Balmohan's Vaibhav Rane, 21-11, 21-9, in the boys u-16 quarter-final.

Campion, Don Bosco (Matunga), Utpal Sanghvi and Cathedral & John Connon were the schools to move into the team semi-finals.

RESULTS

Boys u-16 (QF): Vaibhav Rane (Balmohan) bt Milap Shah (NRP Seth) 21-11, 21-9; Vasim Karadkar (Sitaram Prakash) bt Apurv Shah (Don Bosco, Mat) 21-17, 24-22; Samik Pal (Rajhans Vidyalay) bt Amol Pandit (Xavier's, Fort) 21-19, 21-14; Dhruv Lakhani (Utpal Sanghvi) bt Mor Bootwala (St Mary's ISC) 23-21, 21-6.

U-14 (QF): Sahil Kukreja (Don Bosco) btMakrand Modi (Utpal Sanghvi) 22-20, 21-19; Ashish Gupta (St Stanislaus) bt Shivam Nayak (AVM, bandra) 18-21, 21-14, 21-18; Sujan Narvekar (Thomas Academy) bt Anuj Prabhu (AVM, Bandra) 21-17, 21-9; Sohail Kothari (AVM, Bandra) bt Anosh Kanga (Manekji Cooper) 21-16, 21-18.

U-12 (PQF): Amar Jahveri (St Joseph, Wadala) bt Sahil Borah (Utpal Sanghvi) 21-10, 18-21, 21-12; Rahul Shah (Cathedral & John) bt Kapil Khanna (Gokuldham) 28-26, 21-18; Shrey Dugar (Utpal Sanghvi) bt Stephen Boyer (Campion) 14-21, 22-20, 22-20; Jigesh Dalal (Utpal Sanghvi) bt Shrey Jain (Bombay Cambridge) 13-21, 21-18, 21-12.

U-10 (PQF): Aman Balgu (CD Burfiwala) bt Pranav Marwah (AVM, Bandra) 21-5, 21-5; Vijay Subramanium (Don Bosco) bt Dhruv Kapoor (Cathedral) 13-21, 21-12, 21-19; Shashank Shankar (Cathedral) bt Sachet Patil (Don Bosco) 21-18, 21-13.

Team (PQF): Campion School bt St Stanislaus 3-2, Don Bosco (Matunga) bt Sitaram Prakash, Utpal Sanghvi bt ST Mary's ISC 3-1, Cathedral & John Connon bt Manekji Cooper3-1.