West Bengal's Rituparna Das scored a fighting 25-27, 21-11, 21-16 victory over France's Delphine Lansec and entered the girls' quarterfinal of the Yonex Dutch junior badminton championship at Haarlem, the Netherlands, on Saturday.
The results (involving Indians):
Boys: Pre-quarterfinals: Kalle Koljonen (Fin) bt Shreyansh Jaiswal (Ind) 21-16, 21-6; Justin Teeuwen (Ned) bt Arshalan Naqvi (Ind) 22-24, 21-12, 21-15.
Third round: Shreyansh Jaiswal bt Aaron Cheng (Eng) 21-15, 21-16; Arshalan Naqvi bt Tom Wolfenden (Eng) 21-23, 2-16, 23-21.
Girls: Pre-quarterfinals: Rituparna Das (Ind) bt Delphine Lansec (Fra) 25-27, 21-11, 21-16; Soraya de Visch Eijbergen (Ned) bt G. Ruthvika Shivani (Ind) 21-19, 21-7.
Third round: Rituparna Das bt Luise Helm (Ger) 21-16, 26-24; Marie Demy (Bel) bt Anjali Rawat (Ind) 21-15, 21-17.