Cuttack: Teen Unnati Hooda became the youngest Indian to win the Super 100 tournament when he beat Compensibility of SMIT Toshniwal in a direct match to claim the woman’s single title while Unseeded Kiran George a victory in the Badminton Odisha Open tournament on Sunday.
Producing excellent performance to emerge in the next 14-year-old Unnati won 21-18, 21-11 will be crowned the champion in the initial edition of Odisha Open $ 75,000.
Indian hosts dominated the last day trial which won three of the five finals.
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In the other all-Indian final, Treesesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, the daughter of the former British open champion and Indian Badminton legend Pullela Gopichand, beat Sanyogita Ghorpade and Shruti Mishra 21-12, 21-10 to claim the women’s doubles title after a minute contest.
But in the mixed doubles finals, Irh Arjun and Jolly suffered a defeat of 16-21, 20-22 in the hands of the Sri Lanka duo from Sachin Dias and Thilini Hendarahewa in a match that lasted 36 minutes.
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The double-contested men’s match lasts with 51 minutes.
Unnati, who entered the final after he surprised India’s open finalist Malvika Bansod 24-22 24-22 in the last four matches on Saturday, it took 35 minutes to get better than Toshniwal in the female summit at Jawahar Lal Indoor Stadium Nehru.
Toshniwal was also pulled annoyed, knocking down Ashmita Chaliha, five-seeded five, 21-19, 10-21, 21-17, to regulate the title clash with Unnati.
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https://t.co/DBIVSAJH3- Bai Media (@bai_media) 1643528854000unnati claimed the first game after returning and riding momentum, he won the second match because Toshniwal did not have much difficulty answering his aggressive approach.
Unnati, who had debuted at the senior international circuit only in October last year, began a match in the backfoot and followed 11-7 at the first mid-match interval.
However, the shuttler from Rohtak countered back scores and won three consecutive points to win the first match after the score level was 18-18.
Huba has made the final of the Indian international challenges last October.
George won the opening match quite comfortable and led 5-3 in the initial phase of the second match, but Rajawat fought back brilliantly to take the match to determination.
The battle was intense in the third and last match with Rajawat trying the best not to allow George to have the way.
However, the 19-year-old Rajawat fell at the end when George maintained his tranquility to win it and had the last laugh.
George had defeated Ansal Yadav, 19-21, 21-12, 21-14, while 19-year-old Rajawat scored 21-17, 21-14 victory over Causal D in the men’s singles semifinals.
On the way to the final, George also surprised third seed and the higher the Dey Subhankar ranked in the quarter-finals.