Omkar, Madhurika sub-junior champs

Sub-junior boys (Final): 2-Omkar Torgalkar bt 1-Aditya Tawde 26-24, 21-17, 22-20; Cadet’s final: 2-Aniket Koparkar bt 5-Sanil Shetty 20-22, 21-12, 21-14

Girls (Sub-junior): 6-Madurika Patkar bt 2-Ruhi Chawla 23-21, 21-13, 21-15; Cadet: 1-Juili Inamdar bt 2-Ruta Deshmukh 23-21, 21-13, 21-15 Sadani scores

Rohit Sadani rallied from a game’s deficit to enter the sub-junior boys’ semi-finals and then made the midget semi-finals as well in the Vanita Samaj State Ranking badminton tournament today.

Down 13-15, 4-8 against Anish Kanekar, Sadani played some fine shots from the baseline to win the game and trailed again in the decider by the same margin. This time too, hewent ahead 11-8 and then wrapped up the match 15-12.

Results

Sub-junior boys’ (quarter-finals): Swapnil Vyavaharkar bt Akshay Deshmukh 15-2, 15-3; Animesh Kejriwal bt Abhinav Kapoor 5-15, 15-8, 15-10; Rohit Sadani bt Animesh Kanekar 13-15, 15-12, 15-12; Pravin Upadhye bt Chinmay Kane 15-13, 8-2 conceded.Midget boys’ (quarter-finals): Rohit Sadani bt Rohit Narke 15-2, 15-9; Kaushik Krishnan bt Akshay Devalkar 15-2, 15-1; Vikram Bhatnagar bt Prasad Shetty 15-7, 13-15, 15-10; Abhinav Kapoor bt Rohit Prashu 15-2, 15-6.Women’s (semi-finals): Meenakshi Wagh bt Anuj Wadke 11-6, 11-4.Midget girls’ (semi-finals): Ridhi Panjwani bt Soumya Padhe 11-7, 11-1; Shweta Khare bt Maitreyee Nigwekar 11-1, 11-2.