Bhilwara, Rajasthan: Haryana beat Chandigarh 3-1 in the finals of the North Zone Badminton Championships here to win the tournament for the second time.

Akshit Mahajan was the star for Haryana and won all his singles matches. First up he beat Ankit Arora of Rajashtan 21-11,and 21-14 and then in the semis, he out played Abhinav Maota 21-18.21-08.

In the finals Akshit beat Pankaj Nathani of Chandigarh 21-11,21-14.

In the second singles event, Saurav Kapoor led the charge for Haryana and won against Rajasthan and Punjab, but then faltered in the finals against Oscar Bansal of Chandigarh.

In the doubles event, Neeraj Vashisst and Ravi Kant Singla won their matches against Rajasthan and Chandigarh but lost to Punjab in the semi final.

Haryana were in the finals of all the 4 events i.e. Men , Boy's U-19,Women and Girl's U-19 but could win only one event. Their women lost narrowly to Delhi with 1-2 with margin in the finals. In the finals first single was played by Ekta Kaila and she lost to Nidhi Tiwari of Delhi in three games. But she combined well in doubles with Jyoti Rawat to beat Nidhi Tiwari and Shreha of Delhi.

Jyoti Nashier of Haryana lost narrowly to Sanskirti of Delhi.

By Indian Sports News Network