Indian badminton player Anupama Upadhyay won Kazakhstan International Challenge title
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Astana. Indian badminton players Anupama Upadhyay and Tharun Mannepalli won the women’s and men’s singles titles respectively at the Kazakhstan International Challenge tournament in Uralsk on Saturday. 19 year old Anupama from Almora had won the Polish International Challenge last month. She won her second consecutive title by winning 21-15 21-16 over compatriot Isharani Barua in the final in 41 minutes.
22-year-old Tharun, who was runner-up in the Senior National Championship in Guwahati in December last year, won his first international title by defeating eighth seed Soong Ju Wen of Malaysia 21-10, 21-19. In the mixed doubles final, India’s pair of Sanjay Srivatsa Dhanraj and Manisha K lost to Malaysia’s Wong Tien See and Lim Chiew Hsien 21-9, 7-21, 12-21.
Former senior national champion Anupama looked in good form this week, defeating compatriot Harshita Raut, Czech Republic’s Tereza Svabikova, compatriot Devika Sihag and Japan’s Sorano Yoshikawa before reaching the final. Anupama has won the India International Challenge in 2021, Polish Open (2022 and 2024) and Tajikistan International Series in 2023. Tharun defeated compatriot Gagan Balyan, 2022 World Junior Championship silver medalist S Shankar Muthusamy, Kazakhstan’s Dmitry Panarin and Vietnam’s Le Duc Phat before the final.
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