The All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament started at the multipurpose sports complex located at Parade Ground here on Monday. A total of 568 players from different states of the country are participating in the week long tournament.
In the tournament the junior shuttlers are divided into categories of Under 19 and Under 17. Shishir Khare the master controller of the tournament said that the participants would contest in nine events in the tournament. He said that on August 4, 5 and 6 qualifying events would be organised and the main draws would be on August 7- August 10. The finals of these events would be played on August 10.
The players of Uttarakhand dominated the matches on the opening day; Umang Kaushik of Uttarakhand Saurabh Kerhalkar of Maharashtra and Sahil Jaibhagwan of Haryana won their respective matches in Under 17 boys category while in girls category of the same event Vigya Kaushal, Rakshita Bhandari and Ishita Panwar all from Uttarakhand won their matches. In under 19 boys singles Vyom Chauhan, Parshav Raj and Azam Mohammed all from Uttarakhand posted victories while in girls event Vigya Kaushal of Uttarakhand, Komal Antil of Haryana and Anamika Kashyap of Delhi won their respective matches.