Khelo Badminton: Maha shuttlers in hunt for three gold medals
Hosts Maharashtra lined up a shot at three gold medals from the Khelo India Youth Games badminton court with impressive performances in the semi-finals here on Saturday.
Nagpur's Malvika Bansod produced a dominant performance to beat Tamil Nadus Nivetha Muthukumar 21-12, 21-13 and reach the girls U-21 singles final.
She will meet top seed Aakarshi Kashyapof Chhatisgarh in the gold medal clash, a media release issued here said.
In the boys event, it will be a clash for top honours betweenMaharashtra's Aman Farogh Sanjay, the number one seed, and Rahul Bhardwaj of Karnataka.
In a third success for the host state on the day, Arya Deshpande and Ananya Phadke defeated Navdha Mangalam and Sonali Singh of UP and will take on Rajasthan's Sakshi Asrani and Ankushka Mehta in the girls doubles final, it said.
In the boy's semis, Aman had to battle to get past Priyanshu Rajwat of Madhya Pradesh.
The Maharashtra lad won the first set 21-13 comprehensively, but was error-prone in the ..