Poona District Badminton Association, under the auspicious of Maharashtra Badminton Association and Badminton Association of India is conducting the V V Natu Memorial All India Senior Ranking Badminton Tournament in Pune from 17th to 21st of July.

V.V.Natu Memorial All India Senior Badminton Tournament 2013

21-July-2013 Results (All Finals)

Prandya Gadre made it into a memorable double by winning the womens doubles and mixed doubles.

Pradnya Gadre

• Mens Singles: Top seeded Sai Praneeth of Petroleum Board defeated Srikanth K of Andhra Pradesh 21-17, 21-18.
• Womens Singles: Third seeded P.C.Thulasi of Kerala defeated Sayali Gokhale of Air India 5-1 (Sayali retired when the scores were 5-1 in the first set).
• Mens Doubles: Third seeded Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy of AAI defeated second seeded Tarun Kona and Arun Vishnu 21-12, 21-14.
• Womens Doubles: Seventh seeded Pradnya Gadre of AAI and Ashwini Ponnappa of Petroleum Board defeated third seeded Siki Reddy of AAI and Aparna Balan of Petroleum Board 21-9, 13-21, 21-17.
• Mixed Doubles: Fifth seeded Akshay Dewalkar of Air India and Pradnya Gadre of  AAI defeated third seeded Tarun Kona and Ashwini Ponnappa of Petroleum Board 9-21, 21-18, 21-14.

20-July-2013 Results

Mens Singles (Quarter Finals)

• Top seeded Sai Praneeth defeated fifth seeded Abhimanyu Singh 21-16, 21-6.
• H.S.Prannoy defeated Anand Pawar in a hard fought three setter 13-21, 21-15, 23-21.
• Third seeded Gurusaidutt defeated sixth seeded Anup Sridhar 21-13, 21-9.
• Second seeded Srikanth K. defeated eight seeded Sourabh Varma 22-20, 13-21, 21-17.

Womens Singles (Quarter Finals)

Aditi Mutatkar

• Qualifier Aditi Mutatkar caused the biggest upset of the day by defeating top seeded Arundhati Pantawane in a closely contested three setter, 20-22, 21-16, 21-12.
• Fourth seeded Sayali Gokhale defeated eight seeded Trupti Murgande 29-30, 21-12, 21-16.
• Third seeded P.C.Thulasi defeated sixth seeded Riya Pillai 21-18, 21-7
• Second seeded Tanvi Lad defeated fifth seeded Neha Pandit 16-21, 21-15, 23-21.

Mens Doubles (Semi Finals)

• Third seeded Manu Attri and Sumeeth B Reddy of AAI defeated Nanda Gopal K of AAI and Hemanagendra Babu of Andhra Pradesh 21-10, 21-18.
• Second seeded Tarun Kona and Arun Vishnu of Petroleum Board defeated sixth seeded Gopi Raju G of Andhra Pradesh and Shivam Sharma of Uttar Pradesh 21-12, 21-16.

Womens Doubles (Semi Finals)

• Third seeded Aparna Balan of Petroleum Board and Sikki Reddy of AAI defeated fifth seeded Saili Rane of Air India and Arathi Sara Sunil of Kerala 21-14, 21-6.
• Seventh seeded Ashwini Ponnappa of Petroleum Board and Pradnya Gadre of AAI defeated fourth seeded Riya Pillai of Maharashtra and Prajakta Sawant of Petroleum Board 21-17, 21-13.

Mixed Doubles (Semi Finals)

• Fifth seeded Akshay Dewalkar of Air India and Pradnya Gadre of AAI upset top seeded Arun Vishnu and Aparna Balan from Petroleum Board 19-21, 21-11, 21-11.
• Third seeded Tarun Kona and Ashwini Ponnappa of Petroleum Board defeated sixth seeded Nanda Gopal K of AAI and Meghana of Andhra Pradesh 21-11, 22-20.

Round 2 Upsets

The following are the updates on the matches lost by seeded players in the second round.

Mens Singles

Harsheel Dani

• Harsheel Dani from Air India defeated 11th seeded Aditya Prakash 21-15, 18-21, 22-20. Harsheel Dani is the player to watch out for – as many agree he is one of the budding future stars for Indian Badminton.
• Mohit Kamat from Railways defeated 12th seeded Suraj R N from Karnataka 21-12, 21-11
• Anand Pawar from Air India defeated 7th seeded Subhankar Dey from Maharashtra 21-10, 21-16

Mens Doubles

• Pranav S and Ram C Vijay from Kerala defeated 7th seeded Manish Gupta and Venket Gaurav Pradad from Chandigarh 21-13, 15-21, 26-24.

Round 1 Upsets

The following are the updates on the matches lost by seeded players in the first round.

Mens Singles

Rahul Yadav

• Rahul Yadav C. of Andhra Pradesh defeated fourth seeded Shreyansh Jaiswal of Chandigarh 22-20 21-19 in a tough match.
• Ketan Chahal of Haryana defeated 9th seeded Chetan Anand of Petroleum Board 21-14, 16-21, 21-16.

Womens Singles

• Aditi Mutatkar of Petroleum Board defeated 7th seeded Saili Rane of Air India 21-12, 21-12.
• Jacqueline Rose Kunnath of Karnataka defeated 12th seeded Anita Ohlan of Railways 21-17, 21-13.
• Karishma Wadkar of Maharashtra defeated 16th seeded Nischitha G.M. of Karnataka 21-12, 18-21, 21-8

Mens Doubles

• Qualifiers Chaitanya Reddy and Santosh Ravuri from Andhra Pradesh defeated fifth seeded Deepak Khatri from Railways and Surendar Rathee from Delhi 21-13, 18-21, 21-14.

Womens Doubles

• Santoshi Hasini R. and Saleni Y. from Andhra Pradesh defeated 8th seeded Pramada V. from Andhra Pradesh and Garima Yadav of Madhya Pradesh 17-21, 21-18, 21-8.

Mixed Doubles

• Manikandan M.R. and Suneri of Tamil Nadu upset the 2nd seeded Ram.C.Vijay of Kerala and Nischitha G.M of Karnataka 11-21, 21-14, 21-17.
• Satinder Malik and Ekata Kalia of Haryana defeated 8th seeded Abhishek Ahlawat and Sanskriti Chhabra of New Delhi 21-18, 16-21, 21-18.

Qualification Rounds

18th July, 2013: The qualifying rounds were completed today. The following are list of players who have qualified for the main draw by winning their qualifying round matches.

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