Neha Gangoli captures a grand double

Asawari Patwardhan (Mumbai Customs) had little trouble in beating Pooja Kotwani 11-1, 11-1 and will meet Firoza Batliwala in the finals. Batliwala defeated Gangoli 12-9, 11-6. Gangoli took just 10 minutes to end Lakhani’s challenge So complete was Gangoli’s domination that the only time Lakhani made an impact was when she won two points in succession with some good placements at the net to take the score from 0-9 to 2-9. It was Gangoli all the way from there on.

Gangoli was back on court 35 minutes later to face Batliwala. But this time, she met her match in the left-handed No 2 seed playing with a strapped knee. The latter’s superior court craft and speed gave her the match in 20 minutes during which Gangoli resisted in the first game, but could not sustain it long enough. Gangoli combined with Lakhani to claim the sub-junior girl’s doubles and plays Lakhani again in the sub-junior final tomorrow.

No 2 Gautam played a tactically well-controlled game in the first semifinal. Kanchawade started aggressively and jumped into 12-7 lead. But in what seemed to be a case of burn out, he fell aside and let Gautam come back to win the game 15-13. Gautam went ahead 5-0 in the second game when a bout of cramps made Kanchawade pull out. The No 3 seed had played a tough three-game quarter-final against Behzaad Devadhvala yesterday.

Patwardhan faced some resistance from Vaswani, but in the end was just too good for the No 4 seed. Vaswani ran Patwardhan close in the start of both the games but disappointed just when he looked capable of taking it through. The battle of left-handers went in favour of the top-seed 15-6, 15-6 in 25 minutes.

Kotwani was no match for Asawari Patwardhan in the other women’s semifinal, going down in nine minutes while winning just two points.

Results

Men’s singles (semifinals): Vikrant Patwardhan bt Kunal Vaswani 15-6, 15-6; Vivek Gautam bt Manohar Kanchawade 15-13, 5-0 (conceded)

Women’s singles (semifinals): Asawari Patwardhan bt Pooja Kotwani 11-1, 11-1; Firoza Batliwala bt Neha Gangoli 12-9, 11-6

Boy’s singles (semifinals): Behzaad Devadhvala bt Mateen Amin 15-1, 15-1; Harshad Tawade bt Rushab Modi 15-1, 15-7

Girl’s single (final): Neha Gangoli bt Jhanvi Lakhani 11-2, 11-2

Boy’s doubles (final): Behzaad Devadhvala and Harshad Tawade bt Rushab Modi and S Shah 15-10, 15-1

Sub-junior boy’s singles (semifinal): Deepak Jaitly bt Swapnil Vyavaharkar 15-1, 15-10; Abhishek Kejriwal bt Mateen Amin 15-11, 15-11

Sub-junior girl’s singles (semifinals): Neha Gangoli bt Charmy Sethia 11-0, 11-2; Jhanvi Lakhani bt Ramya Venkat 5-11, 11-7, 11-6

Sub-junior’s girl’s doubles (final): Neha Gangoli and Jhanvi Lakhani bt Ramya Venkat and Charav Sethia 15-13, 15-3

Midget boy’s singles (semifinals): Dilpreet Singh Sahani bt Aniket Limaye 15-5, 15-10; Zarir Warden bt S Narayan 15-10, 15-4

Midget girl’s singles (semifinals): Aditi Kulkarni bt Anusha Sahani 12-9, 11-3; Shivani Mayekar bt Riddhi Mota 11-9, 11-8

Gauri triumphs Gauri Narayan won the girl’s under-16 title with ease overcoming Rashmi Athalekar 11-2, 11-5 in the Suburban District badminton tournament at the MIG Cricket Club Results

Men’s singles (quarterfinals): Vijay Lancy bt Sushant Niddodi 15-5, 15-7; Bhushan Akut bt Parag Modi 15-10, 15-3

Boy’s under-19 singles (final):Imran Shaukat bt Gautam Podar 15-12, 15-4; Rohan R bt Rahul Phadke 15-3, 15-1

Girl’s under-19 singles (quarterfinals): Anuj Wadke bt Neha Wad 11-0, 11-4; Sim Sim Salaria bt Rima Seth 11-0, 11-1

Girl’s under-16 singles (semifinals): Gauri Narayan bt Rashmi Athalekar 11-2, 11-5; Neha Wad bt Nikita Hurkadli 11-6, 12-10

Boy’s under-10 singles (final): Ajay Jayaram bt Siddharth Bhimani 15-1, 15-2Girl’s under-10 singles (semifinals): Sheila Chari bt Aditi Mahajan 11-5, 11-7 Gonsalves wins

Third seed Merric Gonsalves beat second seed Jogesh Ravasia 15-3, 15-11 to enter finals of the the sub-junior boys singles of the Labinda-sponsored Thane District badminton championships at the DK Stadium, today.

Gonsalves will play top seed Sumedh Deorukhkar in the final. Sumedh accounted for Omkar Bapat in the other semifinal 15-0, 15-2.

Results:

Boys: Junior singles (quarter-finals): Bhushan Pathankar bt R Jagesh 15-5, 15-3.

Junior boys’ doubles (quarter-finals): Aditya Kulkarni and Anish Kanekar bt O Bapat and P Upadhyay 18-13, 9-15, 15-11.

Girls: Sub-junior (semifinals): Grishma Deo bt Rashmi Yeolekar 11-4, 11-5.Midget (semifinals): Pooma Misra bt Shweta Khare 11-2, 11-7.