Seeded players make the main round of Badminton Nationals

SRINAGAR: Top-ranked Aditya Prakash along with other seeded men's singles players in the qualifiers on Thursday reached the main draw of the 77th National Badminton Championship to be played from September 30 to October 3.
Karnataka's Prakash defeated Punjab's Prateek Mahajan 21-14, 21-9 in 20 minutes to join seven others in the main round which boasts big names like Sourabh Varma, Sai Praneeth B and Arvind Bhat.
In the women's singles qualifier, top-seed Sanyogita Ghorpade of Maharashtra sealed her place in the main draw defeating Manali Sinha of Assam 21-13, 21-16.
Other seeded entries in the women's section, Chitra Lekha (2), Varsha Belawadi (3) and G M Nischitha (4) also entered the main round of the tournament.
Results:
Men's singles: Aditya Prakash beat Prateek Mahajan 21-14 21-9; Himanshu Kharbanda (walk/over) Ratikanta Saha; B Kiran Kumar beat Talar Laa 21-18 11-21 21-19; Saarang Lakhanee beat Renuka Kiran Mouli B 21-8 21-13; Vikas Harsha P beat Ajay Kumar K 25-23 21-16; Sanjeeth S beat Mohit Tiwari 21-18 21-19; Sachin Ratti beat Pawan Malik 25-23 17-21 21-12; Deepak Khatri beat Kaushik Pal 21-11 13-21 21-12.
Women's singles: G M Nischitha beat Muskan Rathore 21-15 21-18; Rasika Raje beat Ch Poornima 15-21 21-12 21-18; Varsha Belawadi beat Ritu Vinayak 21-12 21-10; Sanyogita Ghorpade beat Manali Sinha 21-13 21-16; J Sarada Govardhini (walk/over) Vijeta Bhargava; Sampada Sahasrabuddhe beat Anees Kowser 21-9 21-14; Susan Rajan beat Jagriti Nashier 24-22 19-21 21-14; Chitra Lekha beat Rucha Nikam 21-12 21-10.