Goan shuttler Anura makes State proud

| OCTOBER 13, 2019, 02:32 AM IST

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Goan ace shuttler Anura Prabhu Desai was part of the Railways team that won a silver medal at the Central Zone inter-State badminton championship that was held from Oct 7-10. Anura was the only Railways shuttler to bag a win in the final team event in the women’s singles match as she beat Sai Uttejitha Rao 21-8, 21-15.   

In the women’s doubles category, Anura and Riya Mookeerjee won again the pair of Karma and Barma Meena 21-10 21-14, to win the 

gold.   

Results (final team event): PSPB bt Railways 3-1 (Sikki Reddy and Pranaav Chopra bt Chirag Sen and Kanika Kanwal 21-16, 21-14; Ajay Jayaram bt Shubhanker Dey 21-19, 21-18; Sai Uttejitha Rao lost to Anura Prabhudesai 8-21, 15-21; Chirag Shetty and Arjun bt Kabir Kanzarker and T.Hemanagendra 21-16, 21-13)   

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