Aaron, Joshua in U-15 final

MUSCAT: Aaron Aju and Joshua Reji have advanced to the final of the boys under-15 singles at the Annual Badminton Tournament organised by the Indian Social Club (ISC). The tournament is being jointly sponsored by Clarion Group of Companies and Al Jizzi Company.

Top seed Aaron Aju faced some resistance in the second game before overcoming Abhas Ajay in the semifinal with a 15-10, 17-15 result.

In the final, Aaron will take on No. 3 seed Joshua Reji who advanced to the summit clash after registering a convincing 15-9, 15-9 win over Harshpreet Singh in the second semi final. Earlier in the quarter final, Aaron defeated Jelin Johny 15-10, 15-12 and Joshua breezed past Mithin Kanchan 15-2, 15-5. In another quarterfinal match, Abhas Ajay defeated Harshvardhan 15-10, 15-10.

On the opening day, Harshvardhan overcame Zenil Shan 15-9, 15-12 in the first round of the boys under-15 singles. Other winnders in the same event were, Harshpreet Singh who sailed to a 15-4, 15-3 win over A Avaneesh and Jelin Johny who defeated Jewel Manoj 15-4, 15-9.

In first round action of the men’s A singles, Ramesh Ramanathan defeated Biju PS 21-15, 21-14, Justin Thomas beat D. Hemanth Kumar 21-12, 21-10, Vaishakh overcame Milind Naithan 21-13, 21-14 and Nikin beat KS Rao 21-16, 21-15, Mohamad bin Saleh defeated Kalash K2113, 21-7, Fasal NV beat Nandakumar 21-10, 21-15.

In first round action of the men’s singles, Justin Thomas rallied from a game down and registered a hard-fought 16-21, 21-18, 219 win over Mohamad bin Saleh, Faisal NV beat Sumit Kumar 21-7, 21-4, Anand Babu fought hard for his 21-13, 12-21, 22-20 win over Ramesh Ramanathan, Gururaj scored an impressive 218, 21-16 victory over Vinod AbrahamDominic Kennedy emerged 21-10, 21-16 winner over Abdul Salam and Nikin Shahjahan beat KS Rao 21-16, 21-8.