Calcutta: Top seed Adya Advani clinched the girls under-19 title in the Bengal Junior Open, at Calcutta Racket Club, on Sunday.
The top seed from Delhi defeated Maharashtra's Aishwarya Bhattacharya 11-5, 11-7, 10-12, 11-9. Adya was having a smooth ride until being bothered by cramps in the third set, but came back strongly to wrap it up in style.
In the girls' under-11 category, Chennai girl Pooja Arthi R retained her title as she sailed past Aasya Patel of MP 11-8, 11-4, 11-4.
In another final of the day, Amita Gondi upset second seed Simran Nagpal in the final 11-4, 11-9, 11-7 to win the girls' under-17 title. In the semi-final Amita had upset Vedika M Arun 11-4, 11-3, 11-6.
Among other upsets of the day, Maharashtra's Arnav Tevatia defeated statemate and second seed Yuvraj Wadhwani 12-10, 11-8, 3-11, 13-11 in the boys' under-11 quarter finals.
In boys' under-15, Inderjit Singh of Chandigarh overcame second seed Utkarsh Baheti (Rajasthan) 15-13, 10-12, 13-11, 11-4 to reach the semi-finals.RESULTS
(All winners)
BOYS - U-11 (quarter finals): Paarth Ambani, Sreekartikeyan R, Rohan Arya Gondi, Arnav Tevatia. U-13 (quarter finals): Navaneeth Prabhu, Athrva Yadav, Kanhav Nanavati, Arman Darukhanawalla. U-15: (quarter finals): Saksham Choudhary, Tejas Chawla, Pranav N Visvesh, Inderjit Singh. U-17: Yash Bhargava, Siddhant Iyer, R A Charaniyaselvan, Pranay Jain. U-19: Divyanshu Sharma, Abhay SIngh, Ranjit Singh, Krish Kapur.
GIRLS - U-11 (Winner): Pooja Arthi R. U-13 (quarter finals): Megha Bhatia, Amira Singh, Abhisheka Shannon, Anannya Morey. U-15 (quarter finals): Samita Sivakumar, Darshana Vasudevan, Krithica JS, Jannia Singh. U-17 (Winner): Amita Gondi. U-19 (Winner): Adya Advani.<>