GANDHINAGAR: World Championships bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth and Aakarshi Kashyap were on Thursday crowned the men's and women's badminton singles champions at the National Games Gujarat, notching up contrasting wins against their respective rivals.
While top seed Praneeth, representing Telangana, earned a hard-fought win over Karnataka's Mithun Manjunath 21-11, 12-21, 21-16, Chhattisgarh's second seed Aakarshi cruised to a 21-8, 22-20 victory over Maharashtra's Malvika Bansod to take home the women's singles gold.