Nationals at Rohtak: A day of sensational upsets

It was a day of sensational upsets at the National Badminton Championships being held at Rohtak, in Haryana. Top players were seen struggling to win, and the tournament seedings were going for a toss (as expected)

Major upsets:

Trupti loses to Arundhati Pantawane

The major upset of the day, was Arundhati Pantawane's win over the womens singles defending champion Trupti Murgunde. Nagpur girl Arundhati who is just 21 years of age, defeated Trupti in only 31 minutes with the scoreline reading 21-18, 21-12.
This win over Trupti re-affirmed Arundhati as a very strong title contender and proved that her close win over Aditi Mutatkar earlier in this week was not just a flash in the pan.

B. Sai Praneeth gets past Anup Sridhar
It took just 31 minutes for National Junior champion Sai Praneeth to defeat the 2nd seeded Anup Sridhar 21-17, 21-14. Praneeth had also defeated Arvind Bhat in the team championship held earlier this week.

The results of quarter-final rounds & the 3rd round are listed below:
(Information source for scores: Article published by 'The Hindu' today)

Men:

Pre-quarterfinals:

Chetan Anand bt K. Tanishak 21-18, 21-16; -- Chetan, the top seed. The forthcoming fights are not going to be easy though.

Saurabh Varma bt Saurav Kapoor 21-11, 21-11;

Pratul Joshi bt Sachin Ratti 21-10, 21-14;

Arvind Bhat bt Mohit Kamat 21-10, 22-20;

Ajay Jayaram bt B. Sumeeth Reddy 24-22, 16-21, 21-16; --- hmm. that was a very close shave for Ajay.

Guru Sai Dutt bt H. S. Prannoy 21-9, 21-6;

Sai Praneeth bt Anup Sridhar 21-17, 21-14;

P. Kashyap bt Anand Pawar 21-14, 21-17. --- Kashyap, is currently world. no.25, and is the top favorite to win the title. Consider this, Anand is certainly no push-over, but the final scoreline does not really reflect too much struggle for Kashyap.

Third round:

Chetan bt Pratik Patel 21-13, 21-9;

Tanishak bt Abhinav Manota 24-22, 21-18;

Saurabh bt B. Kiran Kumar 21-13, 21-12;

Saurav bt Aditya Prakash 22-24, 21-15, 21-10;

Pratul bt K. Nandagopal 21-15, 11-21, 21-18;

Sachin bt Ravinder Singh 21-14, 21-9;

Bhat bt Arup Baidya 21-11, 21-12;

Kamat bt N. Srujan 21-13, 21-7;

Sumeeth bt Mayank Behal 21-13, 21-6;

Jayaram bt Saarang Lakhanee 21-7, 21-17;

P. Kashyap bt Deepak Khatri 21-10, 21-10;

Anand Pawar bt K. Srikanth 21-11, 21-7;

Sai Dutt bt Ravikant Singla 21-18, 21-7;

Prannoy bt Zarzokima 21-9, 21-12;

Praneeth bt Mayank Gole 21-9, 21-4;

Anup bt Akshit Mahajan 15-21, 22-20, 21-12.

Women

Pre-quarterfinals

Arundhati Pantawane bt Trupti Murgunde 21-18, 21-12; -- shocking upset

P.V. Sindhu bt Mohita Sahdev 21-13, 21-8;

P.C. Thulasi bt Vaishali Baria 21-4, 21-18; -- Thulasi the recent Tata Open winner. watch out for her.

Gauri Ghate bt Bibari Basumatary 21-12, 21-12;

Anita Ohlan bt Mudra Dhainje 21-17, 21-13;

Neha Pandit bt Dhanya Nair 21-12, 21-18;

Aditi Mutatkar bt Sampada Sahasrabuddhe 23-21, 22-20; -- oops. that was so very close!

Sayali Gokhale bt Krishna Dekaraja 21-18, 21-13. -- Sayali, another strong title contender

Third round:

Trupti bt Saili Rane 21-10, 21-17;

Arundhati bt Manali Sinha 21-4, 21-12;

P.V. Sindhu bt Jagriti Nashier 21-5, 21-3;

Mohita Sahdev bt Chitralekha 21-19, 21-13;

P.C. Thulasi received a walkover from Shraddha Srivastava;

Vaishali Baria bt Moharmala Mukherjee 21-11, 21-8;

Anita Ohlan bt Riya Pillai 21-11, 21-13;

Mudra Dhainje bt Vijeta Bhargava 21-16, 21-9;

Gauri bt Sudha Kalyani 21-15, 21-15;

Bibari bt Varsha Balewadi 18-21, 21-19, 25-23;

Dhanya Nair bt Ekata Kalia 21-11, 21-15;

Neha Pandit bt Khiranky Sengupta 21-12, 21-8;

Sampada Sahasrabuddhe bt Tanvi Lad 21-14, 21-17;

Aditi Mutatkar bt Arathi Sara Sunil 21-12, 21-4;

Krishna Dekaraja bt Prassa Naqvi 21-10, 21-11;

Sayali Gokhale bt Daya Elsa Jacob 21-2, 21-10 .

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Nationals at Rohtak: A day of sensational upsets

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