Qualifiers spotted

Qualifiers spotted
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

KOCHI, FEB 23: Qualifiers for the main draw of the National Badminton Championships was spotted on Wednesday on the final day of the qualifying round of the Indian Oil-Servo Senior National Badminton Championship at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium here today.

The matches were so easily won by the winners that it took just one hour in the morning to finish of the proceedings. The winners will play in the open events to be held from Feb 26.

QUALIFYING RESULTSØMen's singles: Roy Mathew (Rly) bt Tharun Chauhan (Del) 21-14; Praveen Ghalawat (Del) bt Mayur Ghatnekar (Rly) 21-17; Amrish Shinde (Ry) bt Madhu (Ker) 21-10; SDS Krishna (AP) bt Sushanth Nedoodi (Mah) 21-11; Anna Sreenivasan (TN) bt Ruthuparna Kulkarni (Mah) 21-16; Gaurav Singh (Del) bt Antony Jacob (Ker) 21-1; Mangresh Palekar (Mah) bt Manmeet Singh (Del) 21-17; Anoop Sridhar (Kar) bt Vijay Sharma (Del) 21-15

Women's doubles: K Sailaja and M Srujana (AP); D Swetha (AP) and Neelima Choudhary (PSCB).

Mixed Doubles: Radhika/Sreekrishnan; Tanuja Beegum/Jaison Xavier; Karthikadam/Mayur Ghatnekar; J Sushamanjali/L Prakash Rao.

SEEDINGSØ

Men's singles: 1. Gopichand (PSCB), 2. Abhin Shyam Gupta (BAI), 3. Nikhil Kanetkar (PSCB), 4. Sidharth Jain (PSCB), 5. Anuj Gupta (Gujarat), 6. Ajit Wijetilak (PSCB), 7. Chetan Anand (Air-India), 8. Abhishek Bakshi (Air-India), 9. Sushant Saxena (UP), 10. Sachin Ratti (Railways), 11. Davinder Dhillon (Delhi), 12. Thomas Kurien (Kerala), 13. Joy T Antony (Kerala), 14. JBS Vidyasagar (AP), 15. Srikant Bakshi (Railways), 16. Sanket Shetty (Mah)

Men's doubles: 1. Vincent Lobo/Jaseel P Ismail (PSCB), 2. Vijaydeep Singh/Markose Bristow (Rly/PSCB), 3. Ajit Wijetilak/Jose George (PSCB/Kerala), 4. Deepak Amarnath/ Jaison Xavier (Kerala), 5. George Thomas/Ajay Kanwar (Ker/Del), 6. Diju/Sanave Thomas (Kerala), 7. Bhushan Akut/Vijay Lancy (Mah), 8. Davinder Dhillon/Praveen Ghelawat (Delhi)

Women's singles: 1. Aparna Popat (PSCB), 2. BR Meenakshi (Karnataka), 3. PVV Lakshmi (PSCB), 4. Manjusha Kanwar (PSCB), 5. Parul Priyadarshini (Railways), 6. Thripthi Murugunde (Air-India), 7. Neelima Choudhury (PSCB), 8. Ketki Thakkar (Air-India), 9. Shruti Kurien (AP), 10. Sampada Shetye (Railways), 11. Oli Deka (Assam), 12. Divya Ramesh (LIC), 13. Meenakshi Wagh (Mah), 14. G Jwala (AP), 15. Thanooja Begum (Railways), 16. Krupa Telang (Mah)

Women's doubles: 1. Madhumita Bisht/PVV Lakshmi (BAI), 2. Shruti Kurian/Jwala (AP), 3. Manjusha Kanwar/Archana Deodhar (PSCB), 4. Ketki Thakkar/Thripti Murugunde (Air-India), 5. BR Meenakshi/Thanooj Beegum (Kar/Rly), 6. Sampada Shetye/Madhavi Kashikar (Rly), 7. Krishna Hazarika/Manju S George (Assam), 8.Devisuma/Fathima Mohammed (Kerala)

Mixed doubles: 1.Manjusha Kanwar/Jaseel Ismail (PSCB), 2. Archana Deodhar/Vincent Lobo (PSCB) 3. Meenakshi/Markose Bristow (Karnataka/Kerala), 4. Vinaya Shetty/Vijaydeep Singh (Railways)