Simran, Smit march into quarters of Jr badminton meet

The top two seeds -- Simran Singh from Mumbai and Nashik's Smit Toshniwal -- had little trouble en route to girls' Under-15 quarterfinals of the West Zone PNB MetLife Junior Badminton Championship here today.
In pre-quarterfinal matches, top seed Simran sidelined citymate Deeksha Hardasani in straight games 11-6 11-8, while second seed Smit also comfortably got past Juhi Rohra of Mumbai 11-5 11-4 at the Goregaon Sports Club.
In boys' under-13 section, third seed Dhruv Oza of Mumbai defeated Shreyas Vijay Kamat of Malval 11-4 11-4 and fourth seeded Mumbai lad Sushant Ravva had to work hard for his 11-7 6-11 11-9 victory over Shantanu Sinha of Mumbai Suburban.

Results:
Girls U-15 (pre-quarter-finals): 1-Simran Singh (Mumbai) bt Deeksha Hardasani (Mumbai) 11-6 11-8; Mrunmayee Deshpande (Solapur) bt Yashvi Phal (Mumbai) 11-0 11-4; Nupur Anand Vasavada (Vadodara) bt Janhavi Jagtap (Mumbai) 11-9 11-9; Tanishka Desphande (Pune) bt Shilpi Pusadkar (Nashik) 11-6 11-5; Mekhla Ambekar (Mumbai) bt Gargi Dhananjay Joshi (Bhilai) 11-10 8-11 11-9; 4-Janhvi Khanna (Vadodara) bt Arya Shetty (Mumbai) 8-11 11-7 11-7; Pooja Sanjay Kachare (Mumbai) bt Suryavanshi Sakshi Anil (Islampur) 11-8 5-11 11-6; 2-Smit Toshniwal (Nashik) bt Juhi Rohra (Mumbai) 11-5 11-4.