Top seed B Sai Praneeth of Telangana and Chhattisgarh’s Aakarshi Kashyap produced superlative performances to claim the men’s and women’s singles badminton gold medals respectively in the National Games here on Thursday.

While Praneeth, a former world championships bronze medallist, had to work hard for his 21-11, 12-21, 21-16 victory over Karnataka’s Mithun Manjunath in the men’s singles final, Aakarshi saw off top seed Malvika Bansod of Maharashtra 21-8, 22-20 in the women’s singles final.