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Kumthekar enters last four

Sixth seed Kaivalya Kumthekar came through a tough test against Kapil Mehta,prevailing 21-15 16-21 21-10 in 35 minutes to enter the semifinals of the sub-junior (under-17) boys’ category of the Pune district badminton championships at the Modern PDMBA Sports Complex,Shivajinagar,on Tuesday. Kaivalya’s semifinal opponent will be second seed Amey Tilloo,who beat seventh seed Nandan Gajendragadkar 21-13,21-16.

Badminton: Top seeds progress

Boys’ and girls’ top seeds Sudhanshu Medsikar and Revathi Devasthale had little trouble progressing to the quarterfinals of the Pune district badminton championships here on Monday,with straight-games wins over Nihar Pradhan and Aishwarya Bhujbal respectively. Devasthale was in particularly rutless form,dropping just five points over the course of her 21-1,21-4 victory. Other seeded players,however,didn’t have it so easy. Chirag Ramdas,seeded eighth among the boys,went down 20-22,21-19 to Viren Deshpande in his pre-quarterfinal.

IT football: Elton in sizzling form

Elton Lima was in sensational goalscoring touch,as he fired EDS Mphasis to successive wins over HSBC and Cognizant in the Infosys-Pune FC inter-IT football tournament at the Infosys ground in Hinjewadi on Saturday. He scored twice in a 2-1 win over HSBC before bagging a hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Cognizant. EDS Mphasis ensured themselves a quarterfinal place with their unbeaten record in Group B.