Hyderabad English news | Hyderabad, Latest News & Live Updates in English | English News (Latest English News) at Lokmattimes.com

Hyderabad, Dec 30 Second seed Malvika Bansod and eighth seed Mithun Manjunath registered convincing straight games victories to clinch the womens and mens singles titles respectively while the mixed doubles combination of Rohan Kapoor and Sanjana Santosh bagged their second straight All India Senior Ranking Badminton Tournament crown here on Thursday.In the women's singles final, Bansod upset top seed and last we'k's senior ranking tournament winner Aakarshi Kashyap 21-15, 21-9 in 42 minutes while Mithun stopped former world junior No. 1 Aditya Jos'i's run from the qualifying round 21-15, 21-4 in the m'n's singles summit clash.On a day when all the finals were decided in straight games, the wildcard combination of Kapoor and Sanjana were the only winners from the Chennai leg last week to finish on the top of the podium once again as they packed off Dhruv Rawat and Shikha Gautam 21-14, 21-13 in just 33 minutes to underline their overall development over the last year.The women's doubles title went to the make-shift combination of Simran Singhi and Khushi Gupta, who came together for this tournament after the 'ormer's regular partner Ritika Thaker was ruled out due to an injury.Khushi and Simran defeated Telangana's Vennala K and Shriyanshi Valishetty 21-16, 21-13 to clinch their first senior national title.In the men's doubles final, Kerala's Ravikrishna PS and Sankarprasad Udayakumar made it to their second consecutive final after having to qualify for the main draw. But just like in Chennai, they failed to cross the final hurdle as the experienced combination of Krishna Prasad Gagara and Vishnuvardhan Goud P got the better of them 21-9, 21-12 in the last match of the day.2012 Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal was present at the prize distribution as the champions received the overall prize money of 10 lac and the curtains were drawn in Hyderabad.'Results:Men's Singles: 8-Mithun M bt Aditya Josh' 21-15, 21-4Men's Doubles: 3-Krishna Prasad G/Vishnuvardhan Goud P bt Ravikrishna PS/Sankarprasad Udayakumar'21-9, 21-12Women's singles: 2-Malvika Bansod bt 1-Aakarshi Kashya' 21-15, 21-9Women's Doubles: 5-Khushi Gupta/Simran Singhi bt Vennala K/Shriyanshi Valishetty 21-16, 21-13Mixed Doubles: Rohan Kapoor/Sanjana Santosh bt Dhruv Rawat/Shikha Gautam 21-14, 21-13.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

HyderabadFOLLOW

Hyderabad, Latest News

Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday inaugurated the 81st All India Industrial Exhibition 'Numaish 2022' organized by the Exhibition Society in Hyderabad. ...

Shyamala Educational Society, named after US Vice President Kamala Harris's mother Dr Shyamala Gopalan, was inaugurated in Telangana on Thursday. ...

Hyderabad, Dec 31 Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A. Revanth Reddy was placed under house arrest here ... ...

Hyderabad, Dec 31 The grand finale of the reality show 'Bigg Boss Season 5' garnered decent ratings on ... ...

Hyderabad, Dec 30 The Telangana government has demanded the Centre to reconsider the decision of increasing GST on ... ...

Nagpur, Dec30 Malvika Bansod, India No.2 shuttler, made day memorable by winning women singles title in BAI Series ... ...

Guntur, Dec 30 BJP's Andhra Pradesh chief Somu veerraju on Thursday demanded a change in the name of ... ...

Hyderabad, Dec 30 Second seed Malvika Bansod and eighth seed Mithun Manjunath registered convincing straight games victories to ... ...