Ambedkar in pre-quarters

MUMBAI, SEPT 18: In one of the few close matches of the men's singles, Kedar Ambedkar (Somani College) overcame R Panchamatra to enter th...

MUMBAI, SEPT 18: In one of the few close matches of the men’s singles, Kedar Ambedkar (Somani College) overcame R Panchamatra to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the Inter-collegiate badminton tournament.

The 15-11, 12-15, 15-9 win at the University Pavilion took Ambedkar to a clash against Jayesh Dhuri of Jhunjhunwala College.

Results

Men’s singles (fourth round): Kunal Vaswani (KC Law) bt Azeem Jagani (RD National) 15-8, 15-6; Behzaad Devadhwala (HR) bt Imran Maindargi (Maharshi) 15-7, 15-1; Sushant Nidodi (Mithibai) bt Shyam Kanade (GHM) 15-2, 15-0; Harshad Tawade (Sydneham) bt Manvendra Kane (Government Law) 15-2, 15-1; Gautam Potdar (Mithibai) bt Parag Vora (Khalsa) 15-0, 15-1; Mitesh Hajirnis (Joshi Bedekar) bt Viraf Vazifdar (HR Comm) 15-4, 15-6; Sameer Mahesh (TNMC) bt Jeet Kumar (Birla) 15-0, 15-1; Gautam Podar (Mithibai) bt Parag Vora (Khalsa) 15-0, 15-1; Jayesh Dhuri (Jhunjhunwala) bt Bhavin Pabari (Balbharati) 15-2, 15-0; Bhushan Paithankar (Joshi Bedekar) bt Rahul Parab (RA Podar);Ojas Vakil (NM Comm) bt E D’Mello (St Gosalo) 15-2, 15-8; Rajiv Lund (Shahani Engineering) bt Mangesh Joglekar (Kirti) 15-0, 15-5; Deepesh Bakhru (NM Comm) bt SS Wakharkar (Sathay) 15-2, 15-4.

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Third round: Azeem Jagani (RD National) bt Bhavin Mehta (KC) 15-8, 15-4; Kunal Vaswani (KC Law) bt Sachin Karkhanis (Dnyana) 15-0, 15-0; Bhushan Paithankar (Joshi Bedekar) bt Amol Upadhye (Kirti) 15-2, 15-6; Bhavin Pabari (Balbharati) bt Devang Mehta (Khandwala) 15-18, 15-11, 15-12; Salazar Kaldor (St Xavier’s) bt Shirag Engineer (KC) 15-11, 15-6; R Rohan (Podar) bt Akhil Rawat (Tolani) 15-7, 15-6; Harshad Tawade (Sydneham) bt Vaibhav Khatri (Wilson) 15-7, 15-5; Mitesh Hajirnis (Joshi Bedekar) bt Rushab Patel (Lajpatrai) 15-1, 15-0; Sushant Nidodi (Mithibai) bt Nikhil Todkani (K Menon) 15-1, 15-0; Sachin Bharati (New Law) bt Vikram Ambhare (Somani Arts) 15-2, 15-4.

Second round: R Rohan (Podar) bt Arpit Shah (K Menon) 15-11, 15-0; Kedar Ambedkar (Somani) bt R Panchmatia (KC Law) 11-15, 15-12, 9-15;Deepak Bakshi (NM Comm) bt Ravi Mody (Khandwala) 15-11, 15-4; Hitesh Kakkad (DAV) bt Vishwanath Menon (Government Law) 17-14, 15-9; Jeet Kumar (Birla) bt Allwyn Cerejo (St Gosalo) 15-9, 15-0; Sameer Mahesh (TNMC) w/o Nikhant Bhide (NR Swamy); Virat Vazifdar (HR Comm) bt SK Veshvikar (VES Tech) 15-0, 15-1; Ojas Vakil (NM) bt Robin Varghese (Vivek) 15-5, 15-3; Salazar Kaldor (St Xavier’s) bt DD Kabal (Sathaye) 15-1, 15-0; S Engineer (KC) bt Ranjit Zaveri (RD National) 15-7, 15-6; Jayesh Dhuri (Jhunjhunwala) bt Shahezad Gandhi (Hinduja) 15-1, 15-5; Chinmaye Opre (MLDC) bt Kedar Ambedkar (Somani) 15-3, 15-3.

Women’s singles (fourth round): Kajal Puri (Mithibai) bt Uma Madhavan (RA Podar) 11-2, 11-6; Vidya S (Home Science) bt Sonal More (B Vartak) 11-3, 5-11, 11-2; Anita Shilwant (SIES) bt Shridhar Kirti (Khalsa) 11-1, 11-3; Shilpa J (HR Comm) bt Vera Bhandare (St Xavier’s) 11-7, 5-11, 11-4; Shalaka Damle (Ruia) bt Swati Nair (Sydneham) 11-0, 11-0.

Condolence meeting

The Sports JournalistsAssociation of Mumbai (SJAM) will hold a condolence meeting for Leyland De Souza, veteran sports journalist who passed away last week.

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The meeting will be held at the media conference room of the Wankhede Stadium tomorrow (Saturday) at 5.00 p.m.

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