Srikanth K. wins SCM BS u-19 title

Top seed Srikanth K. got the better of Sameer Verma in the finals of the Boys singles u-19 badminton event, at the Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial (SCM) India Junior International Badminton Championship -2011 held at Pune in Maharashtra.

Srikanth K. defeated Sameer Verma 21-16 18-21 21-17 in the final match, to win the Boys Singles under-19 title.

Earlier in the semi-finals, Srikanth K. had got the better of Gesstano Ganendra Adwitya  of Indonesia in a tough 3-set match, 21-10 14-21 21-19   in 43 minutes, while Sameer Verma had defeated Rohit Yadav C.  21-14 21-11 in just 24 minutes.

This win for Srikanth K. against Sameer in the finals, must have felt like sweet revenge, because he had very recently lost to Sameer in the semi-finals of the Shree Gangadham National Junior Ranking tournament that was held at Haridwar earlier this month. That match too had gone to 3 sets, and after defeating Srikanth, Sameer had gone on to win the finals also.

Here are all the results of the Boys Singles u-19 event. (The last figure indicates the duration of match)

Qualifying Rounds:
Ketan Chahal [IND]   - [IND]  Prakash Ujjwal  21-11 13-21 21-15   0:33
Varun Sarode [IND]   - [IND]   Chandrajit Jha  21-13 21-13   0:24
Akram Safi [IND]   - [IND]  Kawaldeep Singh  21-17 21-9   0:25
Venu Madhav M [IND]   - [IND]  Venkatesh B  21-11 18-21 21-16   0:41
K.P. Chaitanya [IND]   - [IND]  Ribya Jokom  21-6 22-20   0:20

First Round:
Srikanth K. [1] [IND]  - [IND]  Ketan Chahal  21-10 22-20   0:22
Gopiraju G [IND]  - [IND]  Venu Madhav M  21-15 21-19   0:25
Trinankur Nag [IND]   - [NEP]  Ratnajit Tamang  17-21 21-15 26-24   0:51
Anurag Thakkar [IND]   - [BAN]  Mahmuduzzaman Md.  21-5 21-14   0:17
Rupinder Singh [IND]   - [MAS]  Ai Wei Jian [3/4]  22-24 21-15 22-20   0:50
Naresh A [IND]   - [BAN]  Arif Hossain Mohammad  21-13 21-10   0:20
Gesstano Ganendra Adwitya [INA]   - [IND]  Varun Sarode  21-17 21-12   0:26
Pratul Joshi [IND]   - [IND]  Talar Laa  21-10 21-16   0:21
Fikri Ihsandi Hadmadi [INA]   - [IND]  Akram Safi  21-10 21-11   0:16
Shubhankar Dey [IND]   - [IND]  Sriteja K  21-13 21-8   0:24
Vijetha N V S [IND]   - [IND]  K.P. Chaitanya  21-13 21-13   0:22
Rohit Yadav C. [IND]   - [BAN]  Asif Hassan Md. [3/4]  21-1 21-5   0:15
Shreyansh Jaiswal [IND]   - [IND]  Abhishek Yeligar  22-20 21-18   0:32
Ikmal Hussain Bin Jaafa [MAS]   - [IND]  Sudhanshu Medsikar  16-21 24-22 21-15   0:45
Ankit Arora [IND]   - [BAN]  Rezaul Karim Md.  21-9 21-14   0:35
Sameer Verma [2] [IND]   - [NEP]  Irfan Ansari  21-5 21-10   0:18

Second Round:
Srikanth K. [1] [IND]   - [IND]  Gopiraju G  21-7 21-13   0:21
Trinankur Nag [IND]   - [IND]  Anurag Thakkar  23-21 21-18   0:41
Rupinder Singh [IND]   - [IND]  Naresh A  21-17 21-8   0:18
Gesstano Ganendra Adwitya [INA]   - [IND]  Pratul Joshi  21-19 19-21 21-19   0:55
Shubhankar Dey [IND]   - [INA]  Fikri Ihsandi Hadmadi  23-21 16-21 21-13   1:02
Rohit Yadav C. [IND]   - [IND]  Vijetha N V S  21-10 22-24 21-17   0:50
Shreyansh Jaiswal [IND]   - [MAS]  Ikmal Hussain Bin Jaafa  21-13 21-10   0:23
Sameer Verma [2] [IND]   - [IND]  Ankit Arora  21-9 21-17   0:23

Quarter-Finals:
Srikanth K. [1] [IND]   - [IND]  Trinankur Nag  21-14 21-17   0:27
Gesstano Ganendra Adwitya [INA]   - [IND]  Rupinder Singh  21-12 21-17   0:30
Rohit Yadav C. [IND]   - [IND]  Shubhankar Dey  21-17 21-18   0:35
Sameer Verma [2] [IND]   - [IND]  Shreyansh Jaiswal  21-16 21-7   0:24

Semi-Finals:
Srikanth K. [1] [IND]   - [INA]  Gesstano Ganendra Adwitya  21-10 14-21 21-19   0:43
Sameer Verma [2] [IND]   - [IND]  Rohit Yadav C.  21-14 21-11   0:24

Finals:
Srikanth K. [1] [IND]   - [IND] Sameer Verma [2]  21-16 18-21 21-17