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Tasnim sails into third round

Focused: Karnataka’s Vijetha Harish packed off seventh seed Priya Shukla in straight games.

Focused: Karnataka’s Vijetha Harish packed off seventh seed Priya Shukla in straight games.  

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Girls’ under-15 top seed Tasnim Mir sailed into the third round of the Yonex-Sunrise sub-junior National badminton championships with an effortless victory over Swagata Paul.

Tasnim won 21-5, 21-4 in 13 minutes at the KBA courts here on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Karnataka’s Vijetha Harish, seeded seven, saw off Priya Shukla 21-15, 21-11.

The results (round-of-64): Girls: U-15: Tasnim Mir (Guj) bt Swagata Paul (Tri) 21-5, 21-4; Sri Sai Sravya Lakkamraju (Tel) bt Alisha Ahmed (A&N) 21-4, 21-9; Awantika Pandey (Utk) bt Taniya Bordoloi (Asm) 21-13, 21-17; Aadhya Singh (Jhk) bt Priyanshi Semwal (HP) 21-15, 21-18; Hrissha Dube (Mah) bt Gloria Athavale (Kar) 22-20, 21-11; Pavithra Naveen (Ker) bt Ridhi Kaur Toor (Har) 21-10, 21-15.

Radhika Sharma (Pun) bt Kenbi Riram (Ar) 21-6, 21-18; Hiranya Choudhary (Del) bt P. Srija (Bih) 21-12, 21-19.

Anupama Upadhyaya (Har) bt Tanushri Rakesh Kumar Shadini (Goa) 21-7, 21-8; Mahnoor Kaur (Pun) bt Shreeya Chitoor (Tel) 21-17, 22-20; Rhucha Sawant (Mah) bt Mili Verma (Chd) 21-15, 21-17.

Aishwarya Mehta (MP) bt Sutanwi Sarkar (WB) 21-19, 21-12; Vijetha Harish (Kar) bt Priya Shukla (UP) 21-15, 21-11; Manya Avlani (Mah) bt Hiral Chouhan (Cht) 21-17, 21-8; V.R. Nardhana (TN) bt Rutvi Baloni (Guj) 21-13, 21-15; Ridhima Thapa (Raj) bt M. Haimajha (Py) 21-12, 21-13.