Kolkata March 16 (IANS) Top seeds Antony Bennet and M. Arjun Kumar Reddy swept aside Chandrabhushan Tripathi and Shubham Yadav in straight games to storm into the quarter-final of the Rs two lakh-Bishnupriya Kundu Memorial All India senior doubles ranking badminton tournament here on Thursday.
Telangana s Arjun seventh in All India rankings and Bennet of Kerala who is ranked 13th in doubles won by a scoreline of 21-18 21-14.
Second seeds Vighnesh Devlekar of Air India and partner Saurabh Sharma got the better of Anjan Buragohain and Ranjan Buragohain by 21-19 21-11 to reach the last-eight stage.
Star shuttlers V. Diju and Chetan Anand lived up to their billing to thrash Abinash K. and Saran Raj R. 21-8 21-9.
In the women s doubles pre-quarters Assam s Dimpal Hazarika and Sanghmitra Saikia beat local girls Smaranika Singh and Ipsita Sinha 21-15 21-17 while Nisha Karamchand and Kanwaljeet Kaur came from a game down to record a 17-21 21-17 21-17 victory.
In the mixed doubles section top seeds Agna Anto of Kerala partnered with Balasubrahmanniyan N. G. to defeat Siddharth of Haryana and Manali Sinha of Assam 21-17 21-9.
--IANS
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Shuttlers Bennet, Reddy in quarters of all-India senior doubles tourney
