Young Arjun reaches finals of two events in Belgium Open

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Press Trust of India Herstal (Belgium)
Last Updated : Sep 20 2014 | 10:01 PM IST
Young Indian shuttler Arjun Matathil Ramachandran reached the finals of mixed and men's doubles events in Belgian Junior International challenge badminton tournament, here today.
Mixed doubles pair of Kuhoo Garg and Arjun eked out a 11-7 11-9 10-11 8-11 11-8 win over Scotland's Adam Hall and Julie Mc Pherson in the semifinals in a 35-minute match to enter the finals, where they will take on German combo of Bjarne Geiss and Yvonne Li.
Earlier in the day, Kuhoo and Arjun had defeated Pawel Smilowski and Magdalena Swierczynska of Poland 11-7, 11-9 and 11-3 in the quarterfinals.
Kuhoo and Arjun had won two gold medals in Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial Junior International Badminton Championship at Pune early this month.
In men's doubles competition, Arjun and Chirag Chandrashekar Shetty saw off Spain's Enrique Penalver and Javier Suarez 11-8 11-8 11-5 to set up a summit clash with Scotland's Alex Dunn and Adam Hall.
The Indian combo had beaten Belgium's Rover Jay Babatido and Lawrence De Pauw 11-7 11-2 11-7 in the semifinals.
However, it was curtains for men's singles player Rahul Bharadwaj. Bharadwaj, who had beaten Germany's David Peng 11-6 11-4 11-8 in the quarterfinals, lost to Turkey's Muhammed Ali Kurt 7-11 8-11 6-11 in a 20-minute semifinal match.
Belgian Junior open is one of BWF's sanctioned events which is testing out the experimental scoring system -- 5 games to 11.
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First Published: Sep 20 2014 | 10:01 PM IST

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