Kumar, seeded on top of the heap in the lower age group, downed Cricket Club of India's Yohan Pandole in three straight games 11-5, 12-10, 11-4 in the under 17 semis, and is to meet second seed Madhav Dhingra of Otters Club, who outlasted Abhimanyu Shah of the host Bombay Gymkhana 13-11 12-10 12-10, in the final tomorrow.
Kumar, seeded second in the under-19 group, moved up to a contest against top seed Mahesh Mangaonkar, also of CCI, who was too good for another TN boy Deepak Mishra and earned a handsome 11-4, 11-3, 11-4 semi-final victory.
Other semi finals results (all from Mumbai unless stated otherwise):
Girls U 13: 1-Koel Shankar bt Diya Joukhani 11-4 11-6 11-2; Aakanksha Rao bt Abhilasha Bhasin 11-5 11-2 13-11.
Girls U 15: 2-Adya Advani bt Jui Kalgutkar 9-11 11-3 4-11 11-9 12-10; Nikita Joshi bt 1-Aishwarya Bhattacharya 11-9 13-11 11-4.
Boys U 11: 2-Advait Adik bt Neel Joshi 11-3 12-10 11-3; 1-Yash Fadte (Goa) bt Tanay Punjabi 11-1 11-4 11-5.
Boys U 13: Veer Chotrani bt 2-Tushar Shahani 9-11 11-5 11-6 6-11 12-10; 1-Chaitanya Shah bt Aryan Parekh 11-8 11-8 12-14 11-2.
Boys U 15: Abhay Singh (TN) bt Yohaan Surti 13-11 11-6 5-11 9-11 11-4; 2-Aryaman Adik bt Siddhanth Iyer 6-11 11-9 5-11 11-6 14-12.
Boys U 17: 2-Madhav Dhingra bt Abhimanyu Shah 13-11 12-10 12-10; 1-Kush Kumar (TN) bt Yohan Pandole 11-5 12-10 11-4.
Boys U 19: 2-Kush Kumar (TN) bt Ranvijay Singh (TN) 11-5 11-13 11-2 11-3; 1-Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Deepak Mishra (TN) 11-4 11-3 11-4.
