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While most other teams had to fight to the wire in order to progress to the next round,Antonio D’Souza from Byculla were hardly made to break much sweat as they handed IES Manik Vidyamandir from Bandra a humiliating 6-0 drubbing in the Ahmed Sailor knockout tournament on Monday.
Results: ASKO: St Xaviers (Fort) 2 (Rushikesh Golhar,Tushar Gopale) bt Colaba Municipal 0; IES New English (Bandra) 4 (Vinit Pawar,D Sote,Manish More,Siddhant Mohite) bt DY Patil (Worli) 2 (Taha Bhowpalwala,Tushar Sukwani) via tie-breaker; St Marys SSC (Mazagaon) 1 (Keegan Crasto) bt St Aloysius (Bandra) 0; Antonio DSouza (Byculla) 6 (Danish Ansari,Akash Devgade,Kashif Khan,Aneel Khan,Siddesh Raut,Yusuf Qureshi) bt IES Manik Vidyamandir (Bandra) 0; Holy Name (Colaba) 3 (Pritham Jadhav,Pankaj Ekka,Sharad Kanojia) bt J J Academy (Mulund) 2 (Sumeet Dutt,Rohit Vishwakarma) via tie-breaker; Pawar Public (Bhandup) 4 (Johann Fernandes 2,Ritesh Shetty 2) bt Hume School 0; G-16-B: Carmel of St Joseph (Malad) 2 (Brinelle DMello,Jeswin DSouza) bt St Annes (Borivali) 0.
Junior badminton from September 14
The Goregaon Sports Club is all set to host the Maharashtra State junior badminton selection tournament level Open junior badminton tournament at their premises from September 14 to 18. The events will be conducted for boys and girls in the under-19 and under-17singles and doubles in both categories. The entries from the respective districts must be sent to S A Shetty on sashetty1@rediffmail.com or to Mandar Ranade at mandarranade@yahoo.co.in. For further information contact them on 9321162286 or 9833435709 respectively.
Amit Rathi Memorial TT
Top players from the city and the districts will be in action during the JVPGC-Amit Rathi Memorial All Mumbai Ranking Table Tennis tournament,which will be hosted by Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana Club from September 4 to 8. As introduced in the seasons opener,the MCF tournament,the cadet and midget boys’ and girls’ singles events will be played on a round-robincum-knockout basis. For further information,contact organizing secretary Sanjiv Shah (9323718538),Dr Tejas Dave (9867360505) or MSDTTAs official Gurcharan Singh (8809001857).
Nilesh flexes his way to title
Overcomming some stiff competition,Nilesh Nandakumar Padlekar ended up being named Kitte Bhandari Shree for the year 2011 recently. There were many potential candidates worthy of lifting the trophy,but Padlekar stood tall,beginning with him finishing on top in his group. Chetan Gurunath Salgaonkar won the best bodybuilding pose prize during the event,which was held at the Kitte Bhandari Aikyavardhak Mandali Sabhagruha at Dadar. The bodybuilding competition was conducted by P N Naik and Shiv Chattrapati awardee and secretary Nandakumar Tawade.
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