Indian shuttlers confirm 5 medals at Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2022

The
pairs
of
Arsh
Mohammad
and
Sanskar
Saraswat,
and
Bjorn
Jaison
and
Aathish
Sreenivas
PV
confirmed
medals
for
India
in
the
doubles
category.

Indian
shuttlers
had
grabbed
five
medals
in
2018
while
they
won
two
in
the
2019
edition.
The
prestigious
continental
event
is
being
conducted
after
two
years
following
the
pandemic.

The
junior
World
No.
4
Unnati
continued
her
sensational
run
as
she
outclassed
South
Korea’s
Min
Ji
Kim
in
the
U-17
women’s
singles
quarter-finals
in
straight
sets
21-15,
21-18.
Top-seed
Unnati
will
now
face
Japan’s
Milon
Yokouchi
in
the
semi-finals.

Dattu
and
Anish,
on
the
other
hand,
had
to
work
hard
in
the
U-15
men’s
singles
Last-8
contests
against
their
Indonesian
opponents
before
they
wrapped
up
the
matches
in
three
sets.

While
the
seventh
seeded
Dattu
got
the
better
of
fourth-seed
Radithya
Wardhana
21-11,
13-21,
21-11,
Anish
claimed
a
22-20,
19-21,
21-12
win
over
fifth
seeded
Glend
Rumondor
to
confirm
the
Last-4
berth.

Badminton
Asia
Junior
Championships
2022:
Unnati
Hooda
cruises
into
quarter-finals

Dattu
and
Anish
will
be
up
against
Chinese
Taipei’s
Chung-Hsiang
Yih
and
Lee
Yu-Jui
respectively
in
the
semi-finals.

Meanwhile,
in-form
U-17
men’s
doubles
pair
of
Arsh
and
Sanskar
earned
a
hard-fought
victory
against
Indonesia’s
Nawaf
Khoiriyansyah
and
Adriel
Leonardo
by
24-22,
20-22,
21-15.

And
then,
the
duo
of
Bjorn
and
Aathish
added
a
second
doubles
medal
to
India’s
tally
when
they
clinched
a
come-from-behind
16-21,
21-12,
21-17
victory
against
Chinese
Taipei’s
Sheng-Ming
Lin
and
Chla-Yu
Tsai
in
the
U-15
men’s
doubles
category.

Meanwhile,
U-17
mixed
doubles
pair
of
Mayank
Rana
and
Jiya
Rawat
and
U-15
women’s
doubles
pair
of
Tanvi
Andluri
and
Durga
Kandrapu
ended
their
campaigns
with
quarter-finals
defeats.

The
Badminton
Asia
Junior
Championships
2022
semi-finals
will
take
place
on
Saturday
(December
3),
while
the
finals
will
be
played
on
Sunday
(December
4).

Source:
BAI
Release