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Defending champion Purva Barve won the Women's Singles (Under-19) title at the Israel Junior 2018 held in Rishon LeZion, Israel. Seeded No. 4 in the event, Barve, a trainee at the Nikhil Kanetkar Badminton Academy, won the long drawn battle against third seeded and top-ranked Russian Anastasiia Pustinskaia 21-19, 19-21, 21-13 in a match that lasted 66 minutes, a media release said today.