Sameer to clash with Nandagopal for title

Bangalore, June 12 (UNI) It will be a all Andhra Pradesh finals as top seed Sumeeth Reddy will clash with sixth seed K Nandagopal for the title in the 7th All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament.

In the Semifinals Reddy trounced his statemate K Ajay Kumar 21-18, 21-19, while Nandagopal defeated M D Anup Kiran of hosts Karnataka 22-20, 21-18.

Results: U-19 Boy's Singles (Semifinals ): Sumeeth Reddy (AP) bt K Ajay Kumar (AP) 21-18,21-19; K Nandagopal (AP) bt M D Anup Kiran (Kar) 22-20,21-18. U-16 Boy's Singles: (Semifinals) Sameer Verma (MP) bt C Rohit Yadav (AP) 21-19,21-19; Vinay Hari (Kar) bt Vishal Dev Reddy (AP) 21-9,21-23,22-20 U-13 Boys' Singles (Semifinals) Arsalan Naqvi (UP) bt Aditya Joshi (MP) 21-18,20-21,21-19; K P Chaitanya(AP) bt Harsheel Dani (Mah) 21-19,21-13.

U-19 Boys' Doubles (Semifinals): Manikandan/ Satyanarana Rao (TN) bt Pratik Khurana / Sunil Varma (Kar) 21-16,19-21,21-15; S Arvind/Jawahar(AP) bt Ajay Kumar / Prashant (AP) 18-21,21-13,21-19.

U-16 Boys' Doubles (Finals) A Naresh/A K Srikanth(AP) bt Pratul Joshi/Vishaldev Reddy(MP/AP) 21-19,21-13 U-13 Boys' Doubles (Finals) Yuva Prudhvi Raj / Gangadhar (AP) bt Harsheel Dani/Aditya Joshi (Mah/MP) 21-12,21-19 U-16 Girls' Singles (Semifinals) H Tanvi Laad (Mah) bt Saili Rane (Mah) 21-11,21-18; Sheshadri Sanyal (WB) bt Uttara Prakash (Kar) 12-21,21-12,21-15 U-13 Girls' Singles (FINALS) Vaishnavi Iyer (Mah) bt R Jamuna Rani (AP) 21-14,12-21,21-14 U-19 Girls' Doubles (FINALS): Linimol / Megha Merin Ninan (Ker) bt Kadambari / Sanyogita (Mah) 21-16,12-21,21-19 U-13 Girls' Doubles (Finals): Rituparna / Ruthvika (WB/AP) bt Archana/Subhashini (AP) 21-8,21-7 U-16 :Girls' Doubles (Finals): Manisha/P V Sindhu(AP) bt Saili Rane/Tanvi Lad(Mah) 22-20,15-21,21-19 UNI MSP MV SKB1745