Jeet patel

Senior National Badminton Championship: Former champions Mithun Manjunath and Sourabh Varma banked on their experience to pack off their much younger opponents in straight games while holders Chirag Sen and Anmol Kharb also had it easy in the second round of the 86th Senior National Badminton Championship here on Saturday.

In the men’s singles second round matches, Mithun defeated third seed Bharat Raghav 21-9, 21-18 and Varma got the better of Abhinav Garg 21-17, 21-17. Defending champion Chirag Sen also started his campaign in style with a 21-15, 21-15 win over Jeet Patel.

In women’s singles, Anmol Kharb hammered Deepali Gupta 21-8, 21-6 to make a winning start while last edition’s losing finalist Tanvi Sharma also eased into the third round with a 21-8, 21-6 win over Flora Engineer.