TOP SEEDS CHIRAG KHATRI & SNEHA RAJWAR ADVANCE IN PNB METLIFE JUNIOR BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON 3

· 8 cities to host regional matches: New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Indore, Lucknow and Guwahati

· Matches to be held under 5 age categories: Under-9, 11, 13, 15 and 17 for both boys and girls

· Strengthens CSR program: hosts training camps to identify potential talent among underprivileged children and coach them for participation

· Phenomenal response for the first leg of the tournament; 1200+ total entries

· Registrations more details on www.JBC3.in

New Delhi, April 5, 2017: PNB MetLife Junior Badminton Championship Season 3 continued on 3rd day with action-packed encounters between the participants at the Thyagaraj Stadium, New Delhi. The tournament is being organized by Sara Foundation (an organisation for the promotion of sports).

In the Boys Singles U-13 category of PNB MetLife Junior Badminton Championship Season 3, top seed Chirag Khatri defeated unseeded Chirag Choudhary in straight sets 15-10, 15-5. In another match, Under-9 national winner from JBC Season 2 Neer Nehwal (5^th seed) breezed past Manav Khatri in straight sets with scores 15-3, 15-2.

In the Girls Singles U-15 category, top seed Sneha Rajwar dominated the straight set match against Tanisha Khari with scores 15-2, 15-2. In another encounter in the same category, second seed Aashi Rawat defeated Jiya Rawat with scores 15-12, 15-8. In a nail biting finish, Anna Phogat came back after losing the first set against Palak Arora and emerged victorious with scores 5-15, 15-14, 15-13.

Details with scores are as follows:

Boys Singles Under-9

Round of 32

Manjeet Chaudhary def. Shaurya Bhalla, w.o..

Navraj def. Rohit Sharma, w.o..

Devvart Goswami def. Jaivardhan Hooda, 11-10 11-3.

Shiven Upmanyu def. Love Panwar, 11-6 11-3.

Arith Aggarwal def. Jai Singh, 11-8 11-9.

Arjun def. Sharvil Srivastava, w.o..

Uday Bhan Mehra def. Abhigyan Prakhar, 11-8 8-11 11-7.

Aggam def. Saksham Tyagi, w.o..

Nishant Sehwag def. Samanyu Ghuliani, 11-2 11-1.

Sivanaga Sai K def. Parth Gawri, 11-5 11-10.

Raghav Manoj Sharma def. Kushagr Bajaj, 11-5 11-6.

Ayush Kumar (Gyan Chandra) def. Vedant Pahwa, 6-11 11-6 11-10.

Siddarth Garg def. Abhinandan Rawat, 11-5 11-5.

Harsh Choudhary def. Abhi Baliyan, 11-1 11-9.

Raghay Garg def. Aaryan Aditya, 11-3 11-6.

Aksh Singh def. Veer Mehndiratta, 11-7 11-6.

Girls Singles Under-9

Round of 16

Manya Lalani def. Divyanshi Gautam, 11-9 11-10.

B.R Madhumita Ramamoorthy def. Shreya Tripathi, 11-6 11-5.

Ashlesha Sharma def. Diyaa Bhagchandani, 11-5 10-11 11-8.

Ashe Singh def. Vatsala Mehta, 11-3 11-2.

Ananya Bhardwaj def. Rishika Nandi, 11-9 11-3.

Harshita Yadav def. Gauri, w.o..

Shruti Chouhan def. Anushi Koner, 11-4 11-3.

Naisha Ahlawat def. Saanvi Lohia, 6-11 11-10 11-6.

Boys Singles Under-11

Round of 64

Neer Nehwal def. Angad Ahuja, 11-2 11-2.

Taksh Bhati def. Aditya Dagar, 11-6 11-8.

Dev Rathi def. Vigyat Chowdary, w.o..

Pulkit Bazad def. Harsh Choudhary, 7-11 11-5 11-7.

Ojas Sehrawat def. Rohan Chawla, 11-5 11-10.

Ayaaz Malik def. Mohit Duhan, 11-7 5-11 11-9.

Siddharth Rawat def. Ayush Kumar (Pawan Kumar), 11-10 11-8.

Mohammad Arsh def. Tanisq Verma, 11-3 11-4.

Chirag Choudhary def. Garv Sahni, 11-10 11-3.

Bhavya Chhabra def. Ankur Singh, 11-2 10-11 11-3.

Adi Biswanath Sahoo def. Ranvir Arora, 11-6 11-6.

Vibhas Agarwal def. Rithwik Sriram, 11-9 10-11 11-4.

Sivanaga Sai Kondreddy def. Rishit Kapila, w.o..

Tanush Jain def. Mayank Kumar, w.o..

Arnav Goyal def. Yajat Bhatnagar, 11-10 8-11 11-9.

Daksh Bhati def. Harshit Dhankhar, 11-5 11-4.

Veer Pratap Singh def. Arham Sogani, 11-2 11-1.

Vedant Pahwa def. Akash Kumar, 11-3 11-5.

Vansh Dev def. Ranbir Manchanda, 11-1 11-1.

Tejasva Sharma def. Yash, w.o..

Divay Paarth Pal def. Shaurya Pratap Singh, 11-4 11-3.

Aryan Gupta def. Ishan Khatri, 8-11 11-8 11-9.

Divyansh Rawat def. Prerit Yadav, 7-11 11-10 11-8.

Azeem Ali def. Anuj Maan, 11-1 11-3.

Ryan Ranjan def. Chinmay Agarwal, 11-3 11-2.

Raghav Banga def. Mohd Arshad Khan, 11-2 11-10.

Param Choudhary def. Manjeet Chaudhary, 11-3 11-8.

Aditya Kanwal def. Arnav Jain, 11-6 11-5.

Manish Phogat def. Yogansh Singh, 11-8 11-6.

Vrish Ketan def. Yash Dahiya, 11-5 11-6.

Devang Tomar def. Aditya Kumar (Raj Kumar), 11-1 11-1.

Girls Singles Under-11

Round of 32

Riddhima Sahrawat def. Baruni Parswal, 10-11 11-3 11-2.

Anushree Venkatesh def. Zainab Saeed, 11-4 11-6.

Anmol Kharb def. Jiaa Narang, 11-4 11-1.

Unnati Hooda def. Ishika Gupta, 11-1 11-1.

Shreya Tripathi def. Lavisha Gambhir, 11-6 11-4.

Khushi Punia def. Drishti Waldia, 11-9 11-9.

Rayaana Manchanda def. Sanskriti Malik, 11-8 9-11 11-4.

Suhaani Shukla def. Tanishi Sudhanshu, w.o..

Vanshika Thakur def. Ridhima Singh, 11-6 11-7.

Anandini Nagda def. Anushka Golash, 11-10 9-11 11-8.

Shruti Chouhan def. Krishna Gauthami V, 11-6 11-5.

Manvi def. Vanshika Yadav, 11-3 11-0.

Ridhima Sharma def. Vinita Dagar, 11-8 11-7.

Aadya Jain def. Sansthita Awasthi, 11-2 11-3.

Anwesha Gowda def. Chhavi Yadav, 11-1 11-2.

Boys Singles Under-13

Round of 128

Chirag Khatri (1) def. Ujjwal Chaudhary, 15-2 15-10.

Chirag Choudhary def. Tejas Saxena, 11-6 11-6.

Yash Chauhan def. Mayank Kharkwal, w.o..

Sarwar Deshwal def. Harsh Chandra, 15-4 15-11.

Vrish Ketan def. Saurav Sachin, w.o..

Aditya Sharma def. Aditya Syal, 15-5 15-9.

Ayush Sharma def. Arham Sogani, 15-10 15-5.

Shivansh Negi def. Aadi Deshpande, 15-11 15-8.

Vansh Dev (8) def. Maadhav Goel, 15-8 15-6.

Ansh Sharma def. Ritesh Kumar, 15-10 15-8.

Manish Phogat def. Krish Hooda, 15-3 15-1.

Anmol Kumar Mishra def. Shaurya Chugh, 15-8 15-7.

Anmol Bhutani def. Khush Arora, 15-3 15-4.

Chaitanya Agarwal def. Aniket Saxena, 15-11 15-9.

Veer Pratap Singh def. P. V. Rama Krishna Prasad, 15-3 15-11.

Prashant Dagar def. Deekshant Yadav, 15-5 15-7.

Telaprolu Teja Venkatesh (4) def. Sourabh Rawat, w.o..

Aadi Tyagi def. Savarna Mallick, 15-4 15-5.

Mohd Akram Khan def. Naman Yadav, 15-5 15-5.

Garv Sahni def. Vidit Goel, 15-6 15-5.

Ryan Ranjan def. Puneet Sangwan, 15-3 15-2.

Tanisq Verma def. Anishk Singh, 15-9 15-10.

Vaibhav Talyan def. Hardik Chadha, 15-12 15-10.

Abhigyan Sharma def. Manan Tandon, 13-15 15-13 15-9.

Likhit Srivastava (6) def. Kushagra Golash, 15-9 15-4.

Abhishek Yadav def. Arush Jain, 15-5 15-9.

Aaryan Sapiah def. Daksh Yadav, 15-12 15-3.

Rahul Nashier def. Diyansh Rawat, 15-10 12-15 15-9.

Sharaan def. Rishit Kapila, w.o..

Kush Vats def. Varuni Gupta, 15-3 15-3.

Harsh Vardhan def. Aryan Kapoor, 15-2 15-5.

Maninder Singh Bagga def. Rohit Kumar Paswan, 15-9 15-6.

Harshit Dhankhar def. Utkarsh Gahlot, 15-7 15-9.

Nilesh Singh Rajwar def. Kanik Dagar, 15-6 15-6.

Ashish Garg def. Shivam Kumar, 15-10 15-12.

Dhwanit Kriplani def. Mayank Sharma, 15-4 15-3.

Param Choudhary def. Ayush Kumar (Pawan Kumar), 15-11 15-12.

Manav Khatri def. Aryan Dhar, w.o..

Neer Nehwal (5) def. Harshit Gupta, 15-7 15-11.

Jai Sukhwani def. Divyansh Nehra, 15-12 15-7.

Shourya Katoch def. Ayush Maan, 15-5 15-8.

Krishya Makkar def. Ishaan Chawla, 15-8 15-10.

Dev Maheshwari def. Taksh Bhati, 15-3 15-2.

Aditya Kanwal def. Yash Chawla, 15-4 15-5.

Rudransh Negi def. Ishank Singh, 15-6 15-8.

Mohit Duhan def. Vinayak Sharma, 15-11 15-5.

Devang Tomar (3) def. Ayaaz Malik, 15-10 15-12.

Bhavya Chhabra def. Yash Chikkara, 15-0 15-7.

Siddharth Rawat def. Tanishq Bhatia, 15-10 15-9.

Pulkit Bansal def. Nishant Sharma, 15-14 15-6.

Devansh Jajoria def. Umang Sukhwani, 15-10 15-14.

Vedanth Sudhir def. Syed Ayyan Ahmad, 15-5 14-15 15-6.

Tanishq Parasher def. Anubhav, 15-9 15-3.

Khooshee Kumar Pankaj def. Kaushal Chaudhary, 15-4 15-6.

Abhinav Manglam (7) def. Vansh Dayma, 15-3 15-6.

Utsav Rana def. Raghav Banga, 12-15 15-12 15-12.

Rahul Lohan def. Arnav Jain, 15-9 15-12.

Sanchit Rana def. Anish Roy Jain, w.o..

Ishan Rohilla def. Ujjawal Pratap Singh, 15-2 15-8.

Yash Dabas def. Jai Airy, 15-8 15-12.

Ketan Nagar def. Aarav Sinha, w.o..

Yogansh Singh def. Sidhant Tanwar, 15-14 15-12.

Manraj Singh (2) def. Dhairya Chopra, 15-0 15-2.

Round of 64

Chirag Khatri (1) def. Chirag Choudhary, 15-10 15-5.

Sarwar Deshwal def. Yash Chauhan, w.o..

Shivansh Negi def. Ayush Sharma, 15-6 15-1.

Vansh Dev (8) def. Ansh Sharma, 15-11 15-4.

Manish Phogat def. Anmol Kumar Mishra, 15-7 15-6.

Anmol Bhutani def. Chaitanya Agarwal, 15-2 15-10.

Veer Pratap Singh def. Prashant Dagar, 15-14 15-14.

Mohd Akram Khan def. Garv Sahni, 7-15 15-6 15-5.

Ryan Ranjan def. Tanisq Verma, 15-6 15-4.

Aaryan Sapiah def. Rahul Nashier, 15-11 15-7.

Kush Vats def. Sharaan, 15-6 15-4.

Nilesh Singh Rajwar def. Harshit Dhankhar, 15-3 15-6.

Dhwanit Kriplani def. Ashish Garg, 15-9 15-9.

Neer Nehwal (5) def. Manav Khatri, 15-3 15-2.

Shourya Katoch def. Jai Sukhwani, 15-7 15-7.

Dev Maheshwari def. Krishya Makkar, 15-1 15-9.

Devang Tomar (3) def. Mohit Duhan, 15-13 15-9.

Pulkit Bansal def. Devansh Jajoria, 15-9 12-15 15-9.

Girls Singles Under-15

Round of 64

Sneha Rajwar (1) def. Tanisha Khari, 15-2 15-2.

Saloni Goyal def. Cheshtha Mittal, 15-7 15-9.

Stuti Agrawal def. Aananya Singh, 15-7 15-9.

Shehjar Chowdhury def. Vani Gupta, 15-4 15-6.

Sakshi Phogat def. Kashvi Yadav, 15-3 15-6.

Ayushi Dodhwal def. Suparna Dutta, 15-3 15-11.

Khushboo Sao def. Nehal Sharma, 5-15 15-4 15-8.

Meenal Rautela def. Paryank Gothwal, 15-7 15-2.

Sameera Nanda def. Jyotsna Singh, 15-11 15-7.

Simran def. Ananya Costa, 15-9 15-9.

Riya Gupta (Manoj Kumar Gupta) def. Vidhi Dudeja, 15-6 15-6.

Anna Phogat def. Palak Arora, 5-15 15-14 15-13.

Khushi Thakkar def. Kishika Nagpal, 15-9 15-7.

Somya Gupta def. Anuksha, 15-5 15-3.

Siddhi Kumar def. Kashish Panwar, 15-12 15-9.

Ikshita Bhatia def. Simar Gambhir, 15-6 15-6.

Parneet Kaur def. Swasti Mehta, 15-3 15-1.

Navdha Manglam def. Mallika Kohli, w.o..

Khushi Pant def. Jhanavi Sharma, 15-10 15-2.

Anupama Upadhyaya (5) def. Bhavya Gakhar, 15-6 15-4.

Kanika Balhara def. Parthivi Panvar, 11-15 15-10 15-5.

Sana Verma def. Varda Singh, 15-12 15-7.

Ayushi Dhasmana def. Pankhudi Singh, 15-6 15-3.

Aradhyaa Kushwaha (3) def. Ira, 15-1 15-4.

Hazel Sehrawat def. Muskan Mishra, 15-9 15-10.

Tanya Malik def. Sneha Nanra, 15-8 15-6.

Nupur Malhotra def. Chitwan Khatri, 15-11 11-15 15-3.

Vidushi Singh (6) def. Ishita, 15-8 15-4.

Suhana Mansoori def. Mansi Yadav, 15-7 15-12.

Anusha Singh def. Priya Singh, 15-13 15-12.

Priyanka Gupta def. Gunjan Bhatt, 15-8 15-5.

Aashi Rawat (2) def. Jiya Rawat, 15-12 15-8.

Boys Singles Under-17

Round of 128

Shivam Puneyani def. w.o.

Chirag Nagpal def. w.o.

Shivam Agrawal def. w.o.

Match Schedule:

City	Date
New Delhi	April 3-7, 2017
Chandigarh	April 10-13, 2017
Indore	April 17-20, 2017
Mumbai	April 24-28, 2017
Bangalore	May 3-6, 2017
Hyderabad	May 10-13, 2017
Guwahati	May 22-25, 2017
Lucknow	May 30-June 1, 2017
Grand Finale – New Delhi	June/July 2017

For more information and registration one can visit www.JBC3.in.

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