Siril, the 2015 world junior championship runner-up, who took on Sourabh Verma in the men's singles final, winner of the 2016 Chinese Taipei Masters went down in the opening game 18-21 but came back strong to pocket the second game 21-16.
With the scores levelled, Siril stepped on the gas in the decider and gave no chance to his more fancied opponent and took the game 21-8 to win the match in 51 minutes.
Ashmita scored a pulsating victory over third seeded Sai Uttejitha Rao to emerge winner in the women's singles event. Sai, who came into the tournament at the back of a title win in Bengaluru last week started the match as clear favourite but could not overcome a spirited challenge from the 16th seeded Ashmita.
Ashmita won the opening game 21-16, but conceded the second game 14-21. But she held on to her nerves and displayed great tenacity to win the deciding game 21-15 to go atop the podium.
Earlier, the experienced women's doubles pair of Aparna Balan and Sruthi K.P registered a stunning comeback 19-21, 21-19, 21-18 victory over Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant to come out on top, while the combination of Krishna Prasad G. and Dhruv Kapila beat Arun George and Sanyam Shukla 24-22,21-13 in straight games to win the men's doubles event.
Elsewhere, the pair of Nanda Gopal K. and Sanjana Santosh outclassed the duo of Dhruv Kapila and Meghana Jakkampudi 21-16, 13-21, 21-17 to emerge winners in the mixed doubles competition.
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has awarded a total of Rs 5 lakhs for the tournament.
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