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Tuesday, Sep 14, 2004

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Komalpreet, Sourav triumph

KOLKATA, SEPT. 13. Komalpreet Kaur of Punjab and Sourav Chatterjee of Bengal won the mini boys' and girls' singles titles on the penultimate day of the all-India junior ranking prize money badminton tournament at the SAI (Eastern Centre) here on Monday.

Komalpreet defeated Bengal's Rimita Das 13-11, 11-9 before top seed Sourav subdued Amit Dey 15-5, 15-5. Kanu Agarwal of Haryana took the sub-junior girls' singles crown outplaying top seed Pizza Bharali of Assam 11-8, 11-5.

The results:

Junior boys' singles: Semifinals: Kaushik Pal (Ben) bt Ratikanta Saha (Ben) 15-7, 15-9; Sandipan Banerjee (Ben) bt Rajeet Sengupta (Ben) 15-4, 15-2. (Doubles): Dibyajyoti Borah/Suranjan Bhobra (Asm) bt Rajeet Sengupta/Samrat Adhikari (Ben) 15-3, 15-3; K. Pal/S. Banerjee (Ben) bt Piyush Agarwal/Ajay Kumar (A.P.) 13-15, 15-7, 15-13.

Junior girls' singles: Neha Rane (Mah) bt Kanu Agarwal (Har) 13-10, 11-7; Jui Agaskar (Mah) bt Varsha V. Velwadi (Kar) 11-13, 11-0, 11-2. (Doubles final): Varsha Velwadi/Soumya Padhye (Kar) bt Jui Agaskar/Neha Rane (Mah) 15-13, 15-13.

Sub-junior boys' singles: Semifinals: Suranjan Bhobra (Asm) bt Pusan Roy (Ben) 15-10, 15-4; Dibyajyoti Borah (Asm) bt Ratikanta Saha (Ben) 15-13, 15-6. (Doubles): Borah/Bhobra bt Aditya Chakraborty/Dwaipayan Dhar (Ben) 15-1, 15-3; Saha/Ashutosh Tewari (Ben) bt Roy/Bodhipriya Pal (Ben) 15-7, 17-14.

Sub-junior girls' final: Kanu Agarwal (Har) bt Pizza Bharali (Asm) 11-8, 11-5.

Mini boys' singles: Final: Sourav Chatterjee (Ben) bt Amit Dey (Ben) 15-5, 15-5.

Mini girls': Final: Komalpreet Kaur Gandhi (Pun) bt Rimita Das (Ben) 13-11, 11-9. — Our Special Correspondent

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