India’s commuters Unnati Hooda, Gnana Dattu, Anish Thoppani and two pairs of doubles reached the semi-finals to secure the country five medals at the 2022 Asia U-17 and U-15 Junior Badminton Championships in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Friday.
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Pairs Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Saraswat, and Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas PV confirmed the medals for India in the doubles category.
India’s commuters picked up five medals in 2018 as they won two in the 2019 edition. The prestigious continental event takes place two years after the pandemic.
Junior world No. 4 Unnati continued her sensational run by outplaying South Korea’s Min Ji Kim in the quarterfinals of the U-17 women’s singles in straight sets 21-15, 21-18.
Top seed Unnati will now face Japan’s Milon Yokouchi in the semi-finals, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) announced on Friday.
Dattu and Anish, meanwhile, had to work hard in the last eight matches of the U-15 men’s singles against their Indonesian opponents before concluding the matches in three sets.
As seventh-seeded Dattu edged fourth-seeded Radithya Wardhana 21-11, 13-21, 21-11, Anish took a 22-20, 19-21, 21-12 win against fifth seed Glend Rumondor to confirm the Last-4 berth.
Dattu and Anish will face Chinese Taipei’s Chung-Hsiang Yih and Lee Yu-Jui respectively in the semi-finals.
Meanwhile, the in-form U-17 men’s doubles pair of Arsh and Sanskar earned a hard-fought victory over Indonesia’s Nawaf Khoiriyansyah and Adriel Leonardo by 24-22, 20-22, 21-15.
And then the duo of Bjorn and Aathish added a second doubles medal to India’s tally when they clinched a 16-21, 21-12, 21-17 win from behind over Sheng-Ming Lin and Chla- Yu Tsai from Chinese Taipei. in the U-15 men’s doubles category.
Meanwhile, the U-17 mixed doubles pair of Mayank Rana and Jiya Rawat and the U-15 women’s doubles pair of Tanvi Andluri and Durga Kandrapu ended their campaigns with quarter-final losses.
The semi-finals will take place on Saturday while the finals will be played on Sunday.
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