Unnati Hooda turns into first Indian to enter U-17 ladies’s singles ultimate of Badminton Asia Junior C’ships

Rising shuttler Unnati Hooda on Saturday turned the primary Indian to enter the U-17 ladies’s singles ultimate of the Badminton Asia Junior Championships in Nothaburi, Thailand after beating Japan’s Mion Yokouchi in straight video games.

Unnati gained 21-8, 21-17 over her Japanese rival within the ladies’s U-17 singles semifinals. She faces Sarunrak Vitidsarn of Thailand within the gold medal match on Sunday. Under-15 singles participant Anish Thoppani and U-17 males’s doubles pair of Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Saraswat additionally posted sensible victories to maneuver into the finals.

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Top-seed Unnati as soon as once more lived as much as the expectations and stamped her authority as she wrapped up the match in straight units. The Odisha Open champion has not but dropped a set in her marketing campaign on the prestigious occasion. The males’s doubles pairs of Arjun MR-Chirag Shetty (2013) and Krishna Prasad Garaga- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (2015) have gained gold medals for India within the U-17 class on the event.

The in-form duo of Arsh and Sanskar additionally showcased the same dominating show in opposition to Chinese Taipei’s Chi-Ruei Chiu and Shao Hua Chiu to ease into the U-17 males’s doubles ultimate with a commanding 21-15, 21-19 win in a lopsided last-four contest.

They will face one other Chinese Taipei pair of Lai Po Yu and Yi-Hao Lin within the ultimate. In the boys’s U-15 semifinal, Anish made a sensational comeback after being one recreation right down to stun the second seed Lee Yu-Jui of Chinese Taipei 18-21 21-12 21-12.

In the ultimate, Anish shall be up in opposition to Chung-Hsiang Yih of Chinese Taipei, who beat India’s Gnana Dattu 21-16 19-21 21-13 in one other semifinal. Dattu signed off with a bronze.In 2013, Siril Verma had gained gold medal within the males’s U-15 singles whereas Samiya Farooqui and Tasnim Mir clinched the U-15 ladies’s singles titles in 2017 and 2019 respectively.

The U-15 males’s doubles pair of Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas PV additionally gained a bonze after shedding to top-seeded Indonesian duo of Muhammad Mubarrok and Raihan Pramono 18-21 14-21 within the semifinals.