Bhavya Rishi of India wore down her Indonesian rival Sima Fatma Kusuma in three games but then lost in the second qualifying round of the women's singles at the USD 15,000 Tata Open International Badminton Challenge here today.
Bhavya, the best girl player at the 24th Krishna Khaitan Memorial all India Juniors held in Chandigarh in October, won the 52-minute battle against her Indonesian opponent 21-19 20-22 21-12.
The 16-year-old Delhi school girl, who idolises world no. 2 Saina Nehwal and is a trainee at the Prakash Padukone Academy in Bengaluru, later lost to compatriot Mugdha Agrey 16-21 6-13 (retired) to make way for the latter to enter the women's singles round of 32.
Shreyanshi Pardeshi, another up and coming shuttler, survived a three-game battle to put it across another Indonesian girl, Guniarti Rafika Mutiara in 30 minutes.
Shreyanshi won 13-21 21-14 21-11 to enter the second qualifying round where she outclassed compatriot Harika Veludurthi in two games to enter the round of 32.
However, Vaishnavi Kaari was not as lucky and lost in three games to Indonesia's Erlina Kurnianti after a 56-minute tussle.
Apart from Shreyanshi and Mugdha, the other Indian girls who got into the main draw were Mayuri Yadav, Vaishnavi Bhale and Anura Prabhudesai.
Thirteen Indian boys also won the first qualifying round and leading the list was Ashish Sharma who got the better of Jin Lei Chuang of Singapore 20-22 21-13 21-13 in 50 minutes.
The others were K Ajay Kumar, Kabir Kanzarkar, Oscar Bansal, Siddharth Jakhar, Ansal Yadav, Talar Laa, Ketan Chahal, C Rohit Yadav, Arun Kumar Ashok, Harshit Aggarwal, Sachin Rawat and Chirag Sen.
Later Ajay Kumar ousted Kanzarkar, Bansal accounted for Jakhar and Yadav got past Laa to enter the men's main draw commencing tomorrow.
