Favourites Rohan Gurbani and Pranav Rao Gandham advanced to the third round of the Yonex Sunrise Sub-Junior National badminton championships with victory at the KBA courts here on Wednesday. Gurbani, the under-17 boys' top seed, dropped the first game before recovering to beat Punshiba Yengkhom 13-21, 21-6, 21-10. Gandham, seeded second, posted a straightforward 21-6, 21-8 win over Kuber Verma.
Karnataka's Saneeth Dayanand stunned 11th seed Vikas Yadav of Delhi, claiming a hard-fought 18-21 21-16 21-16 win.
Selected results: Boys: U-17: Round of 64: Rohan Gurbani (Mah) bt Punshiba Yengkhom (Man) 13-21, 21-6, 21-10; Abhinn Vasisth (Har) bt Aarush Srivastav (UP) 21-12, 21-13; Ayush Raj Gupta (UP) bt Daivik Chauhan (Guj) 21-14, 21-14; Andrew Lotzem (MEG) bt Rahoul Kanne (Mah) 21-14, 21-18; Ishaan Bhatnagar (Cht) bt Puranjay Sharma (J&K) 21-3, 21-15; Ravi (Har) bt Jaiditya Pratap Singh (Cht) 21-17, 24-22; Siddhanth Gupta (TN) bt Rajiv Goyat (Pun) 21-10, 21-6; Siddhartha Mishra (UP) bt Kirto Nyorak (Ar) 21-13, 24-26, 21-12; Pranav Rao Gandham (Tel) bt Kuber Varma (MP) 21-6, 21-8; Saneeth Dayanand (Kar) bt Vikas Yadav (Del) 18-21, 21-16, 21-16.
U-15: Round of 32: S. Sankar Muthusamy (TN) bt M. Dinesh (Py) 21-6, 21-6; Darshan Pujari (Mah) bt Lakshay Sharma (Pun) 15-21, 21-9, 21-17; Sujnyan Kini (Kar) bt Sathwik Reddy (Tel) 16-21, 21-15, 22-20; Pranav Sharma (Utk) bt Nikhil Chetry (Ar) 21-14, 21-10; Sai Vishnu Pullela (Tel) bt Tejas Shinde (Mah) 21-12, 21-12; Ankit Mondal (WB) bt Arnam Jain (Pun) 21-5, 21-11; Raghav (Har) bt Lokesh Reddy (Tel) 21-17, 17-21, 21-15; Sai Satya Sarvesh Yakala (Py) bt Vijay Borugula (AP) 21-19, 24-22; Ayush Shetty (Kar) bt Ansh Tirdia (Har) 21-15, 21-9.
Girls: U-17: Round of 64: Mansi Singh (UP) bt Archi (Guj) 21-12, 21-11 ; V.S. Varshini (TN) bt Srijita Debnath (Tri) 21-2, 21-3; Aditi Bhatt (Utk) bt Rashika Das (WB) 21-19, 21-13; Adya Parashar (Del) bt Alisha Ahmed (A&N) 21-6, 21-5; A. Abhilasha (Tel) bt Kriti Bharadwaj (Kar) 21-14, 23-21; Tasnim Mir (Guj) bt Adya Bhargava (Har) 21-3, 21-10; Aashi Rawat (Del) bt Diana Devi Leimapokpam (Man) 21-8, 21-14; Taneesha Singh (UP) bt Harshita Agrawal (Cht) 21-16, 21-10; Maheshwari Devi Kshetrimayum (Man) bt Shiwangi Singh (UP) 21-15, 20-22, 21-8; Uthsava Palit (WB) bt Sruti Swain (Odi) 21-4, 21-7.
U-15: Round of 32: Tasnim Mir (Guj) bt Sri Sai Sravya Lakkamraju (Tel) 21-5, 21-18; Hrissha Dube (Mah) bt Pavithra Naveen (Ker) 9-21, 21-15, 21-14; Anupama Upadhyaya (Har) bt Mahnoor Kaur (Pun) 21-15, 21-9; Vijetha Harish (Kar) bt Anshika Kumawat (Raj) 21-12, 21-18; Taneesha Singh (UP) bt Ridhima Thapa (Raj) 13-21, 21-9, 21-8; Tara Shah (Mah) bt Jayantika Rathore (Kar) 21-16, 21-12; Sakshi Phogat (Raj) bt Riya Habbu (Mah) 21-14, 21-14; Meghana Reddy (Tel) bt Priyanka Pant (MP) 21-10, 21-12.
