Pune's Ishanvi Kale, Dhruvi Kumbhephalkar and Kaira Raina beat seeded players at Yonex Sunrise Cup

Pune's Ishanvi Kale, Dhruvi Kumbhephalkar and Kaira Raina defeated seeded players to make the day their own at the Yonex Sunrise SBA Cup state-level under-15 and under-17 badminton championship. The event is being organised by Sudhanshu Badminton Academy with the support of Samarth Group.

The tournament is being played on the badminton courts of the PE Society Modern PDMBA Sports Complex in Pune. In the under-15 girls' section, unseeded Ishanvi Kale of Pune beat ninth seed Tejaswi Bhutada 7-15, 18-16, 15-10. With the win, she continued her run of unexpected results.

In the same section, 21st seed Dhruvi Kumbhephalkar of Pune beat eighth seed Rudra Gawade of Mumbai City 15-13, 15-8. Eighteenth seed Kaira Raina of Pune produced a stunning result by beating 10th seed Iman Motorwala of Mumbai City 15-5, 15-8.

In the under-15 boys' section, Meer Ali of Pune beat 27th seed Vishesh Shrivastava of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar 15-7, 15-13. Prathamesh Raut of Raigad beat Shriansh Hubalikar of Solapur 15-12, 15-6. Fifth seed Mayank Rajput of Thane beat Ojas Landge of Nagpur 15-10, 15-13. Twelfth seed Ruhan Bhatia of Mumbai City beat Mihir Ingale of Pune 15-9, 16-14 to reach the fourth round.

In a close contest, Avanish Khirtkar of Nagpur beat Avanish Balchandra of Pune 10-15, 15-8, 15-13. Akshat Nayak of Pune beat Abhiveer Malik in three games, 13-15, 15-9, 15-9.

The other fourth-round results in the under-15 girls' section were as follows. Rudraniraje Nimbalkar (Pune) beat Mahi Churi (Palghar) 13-15, 15-13, 15-11. Sanvi Ghate (Nagpur) beat Charvi Lapsia (Pune) 15-3, 15-4. Aradhya Dhere (Pune) beat Shraddha Ingale (Satara) 15-12, 16-18, 15-6. Samanvaya Dhananjay (Pune) beat Vishruti Namana (Thane) 15-12, 15-9.

In the third round of the under-15 boys' section, Vedant Yadav (Nagpur) beat Burhanuddin Attarwala (Pune) 4-15, 15-12, 18-16. Himanshu Bhatkar (Raigad) beat Kritik M (Mumbai Suburban) 15-7, 15-6, Shrish Mishra (Palghar) beat Diyan Parekh (Pune) 15-12, 11-15, 15-13, and Hridan Padwe (Pune) beat Rayan Shah (Mumbai City) 15-6, 15-8. Yohan Kalyani (Nashik) beat Bhavik Musale (Nagpur) 17-15, 15-6, and Arjun Shrigadiwar (Pune) beat Jayesh Khemnar (Pune) 15-2, 15-5.

In the under-17 boys' section, Udayan Deshmukh (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) beat Viraj Gadekar (Ahilyanagar) 15-8, 15-12, and Aditya Padwal (Thane) beat Siddharth Panikar (Pune) 15-13, 17-15. Akshat Raisurana (Mumbai City) beat Ajinkya Joshi (Pune) 16-14, 15-13, and Arjun Shrigadiwar (Pune) beat Ranveer Thormote (Latur) 15-10, 15-9. Chinmay Phanse (Pune) beat Hridan Padwe (Pune) 15-1, 15-3, Vishwajeet Thavil (Thane) beat Dhruv Pawar (Mumbai City) 15-4, 15-5, Praful Pardhi (Palghar) beat Diyan Parekh (Pune) 15-10, 15-8, and Darsh Sarda (Raigad) beat Maurya Khandelwal (Nagpur) 16-14, 15-9.