
JAIPUR, SEPT 30: Formidable Petroleum Sports Control Board PSCB and title aspirants Railways lined up for a grand double by setting up absorbing finals in both the men8217;s and women8217;s sections of the Central Zone Inter-State Badminton Championship here today.
PSCB and Railways scored identical 3-0 victories against Air-India and Combined Universities respectively in the men8217;s semi-finals with the two defeating Air-India and Varsities respectively by identical 2-0 margins in the women8217;s section.
RESULTS
Men8217;s semis: PSCB bt Air-India 3-0 P Gopichand bt Chetan Anand 15-6, 15-5, Nikhil Kanetkar bt Abhin Shyam Gupta 15-10, 15-4, Jaseel P Ismali/Vincent lobo bt SDS Krishnan/Gaurav Singh 15-1, 15-7
Railways bt Combined Universities 3-0 Sachin Ratti bt Nitin Suman 15-0, 15-0; Srikant Bakshi bt Sukhvinder Singh 15-6, 15-4; Amrish Shinde/Roy Mathews bt Sukhvinder/Satvinder Singh 15-9, 15-0
Women8217;s semis: PSCB bt Air-India 2-0 Aparna Popat bt Mugdha Bhagwat 11-3, 11-6, Manjusha Kanwar/Archana Deodhar bt Tripti Murgunde/Gouri Narayan 15-3, 15-4;
Railways bt Combined Universities 2-0 Sampada Shetty bt Saloni Kundara 11-0 11-2, Sampada Shetty/Madhvi Kashikar bt Saloni/Sujaya Mukharjee 15-9, 15-0