Triple delight for Kapil
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Kapil Salonia of Guru Gobind Singh Sports College dominated the boys' category with a triple title win at the UP State Junior (Under-19) Badminton Championship 2025, held at BBD Academy on Sunday.
Salonia clinched the boys' singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles, while Tarandeep Kaur claimed the girls' singles crown by defeating Agra's Divyanshi Gautam 17-21, 21-10, 21-12.
In the boys' singles final, Kapil eased past Gorakhpur's Hussain Ansari 21-18, 21-11. He then teamed up with Adityya Yadav to win the mixed doubles, and with Abhishek Kushwaha to secure the boys' doubles title.
The girls' doubles title went to Aditya Yadav (Gorakhpur) and Riddhima Singh (Moradabad), who outplayed Keerat Chaudhary and Rudrakshi Rana (both from Ghaziabad) 21-9, 21-13.
President of the Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association, Navneet Sehgal, and chairman Viraj Sagar Das gave away the prizes.
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