Mhatre, Etambe in final

Raman wins

Santosh Raman defeated Vinit Bapat in three trying games 21-17, 23-25, 21-8 in the sub-junior boys qualifying fourth round of the Matunga Gymkhana State Ranking table tennis tournament today.

Results (qualifying)

Sub-junior boys (fourth round): Santosh Raman bt Vinit Bapat 21-17, 23-25, 21-8; Deepankar Sarkar bt Chintan Desai 22-20, 18-21, 21-16; Ashis Nathani bt Anurag Dongre 22-20, 14-21, 21-11; Jugal Parmar bt Akash Thakkar 20-22, 21-16, 21-15.

Cadet boys (third round): Rohan Chinchwadkar bt Jimeet Mody 21-4, 21-6; Deepankar Sarkar bt Srikar Arte 17-21, 21-14, 21-10; Nikhil Bhandari bt Abhijit Rao 21-13, 21-7; Aniket Koparkar (Pune) bt Karan Thakkar 21-6, 21-13.

Cadet girls (second round): Juili Inamdar bt Rujuta Palande 22-20, 21-15; Aslesha Bodas (Pun) bt Nirja Kukdya 21-19, 17-21, 21-19; Priya Gabade (Dhule) bt Divya Deshpande 21-9, 19-21, 21-14; Savari Rathod (Nag) bt Priti Mokashi 21-18, 21-16.

Wagh in semis

Meenakshi Wagh and Gauri Narayan entered the women’s singles semi-finals of the Vanita Samaj Open badminton tournament today.

Results

Men’s singles (fourth round): Ajay Salvi bt Rajeev Laad 15-9, 15-6; Vikrant Patwardhan bt Raj Neelam 15-4, 15-8; Kunal Vaswani bt Vilas Kuwale 15-12, 15-8; Rutuparna Kulkarni bt Ashish Bhide 15-5, 15-3; Murali Subbramanian bt Abhijeet Ahirekar 15-1, 15-7.

Women’s singles (quarter-finals): Menakshi Wagh bt Saambhavi Shivalkar 11-0, 11-0; Gauri Narayan bt Deepali Upadhye 11-2, 11-2.

Sub-junior girls (2nd round): Neha Wad bt Rashmi Yeolekar 11-1, 11-0; Kavita k w/o Aditi Kulkarni; Amodi Borkar bt R Sundaram 11-1, 11-0; Sweta Khare bt Ketaki Wad 11-3, 11-2.

Men’s doubles (3rd round): Vikrant Patwardhan/Mayur Tawade bt Abhijeet Ahirekar/Raj Neelam 11-9, 17-14.