A light breeze from one end of the huge hall troubled her a bit, but top-seeded Rituparna Das stayed steady and marched to the women’s singles final of the second Manorama Open National-ranking badminton tournament at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium here on Monday evening.
Rituparna, the Junior National champion, defeated Air India’s fourth-seeded Tanvi Lad in three sets and will meet her Gopi Chand Academy-mate Ruthvika Shivani, the eighth seed, in Tuesday evening’s final.
Meanwhile, Petroleum Board’s Ajay Jayaram brushed aside Karnataka’s junior national champion Daniel S. Farid 21-6, 21-10 and entered the men’s final.
He will meet Haryana’s second seed Sameer Verma, who bounced back after losing the first set to defeat Karnataka’s third-seeded Aditya Prakash 17-21, 21-13, 21-17.
The results:
Men: Semifinals: Ajay Jayaram (Pet) bt Daniel S. Farid (Kar) 21-6, 21-10; 2-Sameer Verma (Har) bt 3-Aditya Prakash (Kar) 17-21, 21-13, 21-17. Quarterfinals: Ajay bt 1-Subhankar Dey (Mah) 21-19, 21-17; Daniel bt 7-Akshit Mahajan (Har) 16-21, 21-17, 21-17; Aditya bt 9-Shreyansh Jaiswal (Cg) 21-18, 21-13; Sameer bt 6-Kaushal Dharmamer (AAI) 21-17, 21-11.
Women: Semifinals: 1-Rituparna Das (Tel) bt 4-Tanvi Lad (AI) 21-14, 19-21, 21-16; 8-G. Ruthvika Shivani (Tel) bt 11-Reshma Karthik (AI) 21-7, 21-14. Quarterfinals: Rituparna bt 5- Saili Rane (AI) 15-21, 21-14, 21-19; Tanvi bt 6-P.C. Thulasi (Ker) 21-16, 21-19; Reshma bt 16-Sri Krishna Priya (Tel) 21-17, 16-21, 21-14; Ruthvika bt 9-Neha Pandit (AAI) 21-14, 21-10.
Doubles: Men: Quarterfinals: 1-Alwin Francis (Ker) & Arun Vishnu (Pet) bt Rohan Kapoor (Del) & Saurabh Sharma (Har) 21-12, 21-14; 3-K. Nanda Gopal (AAI) & M. Arjun Kumar Reddy (AP) bt 5-Adarsh Kumar & Vineeth Manuel (Kar) 21-19, 21-12; Akshay Dewalkar (AI) & Eshan Naqvi (Mah) bt 7-Bennet Antony & S. Pranav (Ker) 21-11, 21-17; 6-K.T. Rupesh Kumar (Pet) & Sanave Thomas (Ker) bt 2-Shlok Ramchandran & Sanyam Shukla (AI) 19-21, 21-8, 21-18.
Women: Semifinals: 1-J. Meghana & K. Maneesha (AP) bt 3-Sanyogita Ghorpade (AI) & Arathi Sara Sunil (Ker) 14-21, 21-15, 21-14; 4-Aparna Balan & Prajakta Sawant (Pet) bt Dhanya Nair (Rly) & Mohita Sahdev (AAI) 21-11, 21-7.
Quarterfinals: 1-J. Meghana & K. Maneesha (AP) bt Kuhoo Garg (Utr) & V. Harika (AI) 21-16, 21-7; 3-Sanyogita Ghorpade (AI) & 3-Arathi Sara Sunil (Ker) bt Vaishnavi Iyer (Kar) & J.K. Malavika (Ker) 21-14, 21-15.
Mixed: Semifinals: 1-Arun Vishnu & Aparna Balan (Pet) bt 6-Shlok Ramchandran (AI) & J. Meghana (AP) 21-13, 21-9; Akshay Dewalkar & V. Harika (AI) bt 2-K. Nanda Gopal (AAI) & K. Maneesha (AP) 10-21, 21-13, 21-17. Quarterfinals: Arun Vishnu & Aparna Balan bt M.R. Arjun (Ker) & Kuhoo Garg (Utr) 21-23, 21-13, 21-8; Shlok Ramchandran & Meghana bt K. Dilshad & P. Cynda (Ker) 22-20, 21-5; Akshay Dewalkar & V. Harika bt Saurabh Sharma (Har) & D. Pooja (AP) 24-22, 12-21, 21-19; Nanda Gopal & Maneesha bt Dinesh Choudhary & Lalita Dahiya (Har)21-6, 21-8.
