Seeded second, Upadhyaya was up against the top seed Tara Shah of Maharashtra. Having won the first game, the Haryana girl’s momentum dropped in the second as Shah made a comeback. But Upadhyaya was able to rebound in style to complete a 21-17, 15-21, 21-11 win in 55 minutes.

Boruah had it even easier against the second seed Ankit Mondal of West Bengal. The sixth seed refused to put a foot wrong in his 21-16, 21-18 demolition of Mondal.

Tonmoy, however, failed to win a double crown. The third-seeded pair of Boruah and Lakshay Sharma went down fighting 14-21, 21-18, 10-21 to the eighth seeds Sanskar Saraswat and Bhuvan Singh, of Rajasthan, in boys’ doubles.

There was yet another mini upset in the U-15 section when the third-seeded Tamil Nadu pair of Gnanadha Karthikeyan and Sania Sikkandar took just 24 minutes to prevail over second seeds Gayathri Rani Jaiswal and Karnika Sree S, 21-7, 21-15.

Mixed doubles was the only category which went according to seedings. The top-seeded Telengana-Odisha pair of Sathwik Reddy K and Swetaparna Panda beat the third seeds Samarveer and Rijul Saini 21-14, 21-8 to take the title.

It was doubles whammy for Tara Shah as she lost the U-17 girls’ singles final as well. Uttar Pradesh girl Mansi Singh, also the top seed, proved too strong for the 14th seeded Shah with a commanding 21-11, 21-6 win.

The boys’ singles category witnessed a mini upset as the eighth-seeded Tamil Nadu boy, Rithvik Sanjeevi S. made short work of sixth seed Pranay Katta, 21-15, 21-14.

The mixed doubles final was a high-quality thriller in which sixth-seeded Karnataka duo of Suhas V and Janani Ananthakumar edged Hariharan Amsakarunan and Praveena S. 23-21, 28-26.

Both the boys’ and the girls’ doubles finals were won by unseeded pairs. While Haryana’s Devika Sihag-Ridhi Kaur Toor beat second seeds Pranavi N-Sarumathi V. 14-21, 21-18, 21-18 in girls’ doubles, Rajasthan combine of Himanshu Khatana-Shubham Patel triumphed 21-18, 24-22 in boys’ doubles over second seeds Ayush Pattnayak-Suhas V.