
MUMBAI, JULY 21: Unseeded Nandakumar Mhatre upset second seed Mahendra Tambe 25-23, 25-0 in the open singles event of the Kshatriya Union Club8217;s 37th Open District Ranking carrom tournament at Vanmali Hall, Dadar. Nagsen Etambe won the other semi-final.
Open singles semi-finals: Nandakumar Mhatre bt Mehendra Tambe 25-23, 25-0; Nagsen Etambe bt Ashok Gurav 25-12, 25-6.
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 women8217;s singles semi-finals of the Vanita Samaj Open badminton tournament today.
Results
Men8217;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.
Women8217;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.
Men8217;s doubles 3rd round: Vikrant Patwardhan/Mayur Tawade bt Abhijeet Ahirekar/Raj Neelam 11-9, 17-14.