Lakshya Sen, Aakarshi Kashyap Among The Top Seeds Ousted In Quarterfinals Of National Badminton Championships!

On Friday, Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lakshya Sen and women’s top seed Aakarsha Kashyap were both knocked out of the ongoing National Badminton Championships in Chennai. Top seeded Sen won the pre-quarterfinals over Abhishek Saini 21-23, 21-18 (Box), third meeting with Alap Mishra. In turn, he could not break through Bharat Raghav, who had disposed of Alap himself in four sets previously. The second set was particularly surprising for both players In the semifinals, Raghav will meet fourth seed Tharun M, who progressed by beating Varun Kapur in a pre-quarterfinal clash after he retired.

In the other semi-final, Chirag Sen will face second-seeded Kiran George.

Chirag waxed Arya Bhivpathaki, while George defeated Mithun M.

In the women’s singles, Kashyap fell to Tanvi Sharma 21-15, 22-20.

Now Tanvi will play against Isharani Baruah, who defeated Shriyanshi Valishetty.

In the other women’s semifinal, Anmol Kharb is set against second seed Ashmita Chaliha. Both qualified after beating Mansi Singh and Meghana Reddy M respectively.

To begin with, seeds one and two, Krishna Prasad G and Vishnuvardhan Goud P will meet fourth seeds Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar R. Secondly, sixth-seeded K Pruthvi Roy is matched against Power Naveen; thirdly, Suraj Goala faces a confused pairing of fifth-seeded S

Women’s doubles: The fourth-seeded pair of Ritika Thaker and Simran Singhi will play P Amrutha and Pranjal Prabhu Chimulkar in the semifinal. Third seeds Priya Devi Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra face off against Mrunmayee Deshpande Upadhyayev.