Saajid steals show

DECEMBER 28: Mohammad Saajid Mumbai stunned second seed Sanjay Mande 25-20, 20-25, 25-15 in the open singles quarter-finals of the 35th ...

DECEMBER 28: Mohammad Saajid Mumbai stunned second seed Sanjay Mande 25-20, 20-25, 25-15 in the open singles quarter-finals of the 35th Maharashtra State and Inter-District carrom championships at the Ganpat Rao Vartak Krida Bhavan, Vasai on Tuesday.

In the pre-quarter-finals, Saajid shocked seventh seed Niranjan Nimkar Thane 25-20, 20-25, 25-19 and claimed the player-of-the-day award.

Results:

Open singles pre-Q-F: Mahendra Tambe bt Sanjay Nagaonkar 25-4, 25-0; Babulal Shrimal bt Shabbir Khan 25-9, 25-0; Narsing Rao Sakari bt Deepak Sawant 25-9, 25-5; Arun Kedar bt Nityananda Dontula 25-16, 17-25, 25-4; Nagsen Etambe bt Yogesh Pardeshi 15-25, 25-19, 25-14; Dilesh Khedekar bt Dilip Sandage 2513, 25-8; Mohammad Saajid bt Niranjan Nimkar 25-20, 20-25, 25-19; Sanjay Mande bt Nasir Khan 25-11, 25-20. Quarter-finals: Mahendra Tambe bt Babulal 25-0, 25-5; Narsing Rao Sakari bt Arun Kedar 25-16, 25-16; Nagsen Etambe bt Dilesh Khedekar 25-1, 25-8; Mohammad Saajid bt Sanjay Mande 25-20, 20-25, 25-15.

Open doubles Semis: Nagsen Etambe/Sanjay Nagaonkar bt Arun Kedar/M Tambe 22-25, 25-4, 25-4; Ratan Oswal/Ebrahim Shaikh bt Sayyad Mohsin Kasim/Sayyad 25-20, 17-25, 25-0.

Women8217;s singles semis: Nirmala Parimi bt Nalini Bolinjkar 25-13, 25-20; Anupama Kedar bt Sangeeta Chandorkar 25-12, 25-17. Quarter-finals: Nirmala Parimi bt Shubiada Nagaonkar 25-4, 25-4; Nalini Bolinjkar bt Shilpa Joshi 25-23, 25-22; Sangeeta Chandorkar bt Minal Lele 25-18, 25-4; Anupama Kedar bt Monaz Tanttra 6-25, 25-17, 25-10.

Veterans singles semis: Mukim Shaikh bt Keshav Kotian 25-16, 25- 16; Salim Ansari Jalgaon bt Suresh Dumre Thane 25-7, 25-7. Quarter-finals: Mukim Shaikh bt Susheel Bandiwadekar 25-23, 25-10; Keshav Kotian bt Sudhakar Ghanekar 25-16, 1-25, 25-15; Salim Ansari bt Kishore Mohite 25-8, 25-8; Suresh Dombre bt Anil Kanbi 25-11, 15-25, 25-13.

Kadambari champ

Kadambari Chedda beat Vinita Ghate 4-11, 11-5, 13-11 in the mini girls singles final of the 12th Manora badminton championships at the Andheri Sports Complex.

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Other results all finals: Boys mini: P Suryamoorthy bt A Neelakandan 15-7, 15-3. Midget: Rohit Sadani bt Ajay Jayaram 15-5, 15-7. Sub-junior: Swapnil Vyavaharkar bt Rohit Sadani 17-14, 15-5.

Girls midget: Ridhi Pajwani bt Saumya Padhye 11-2, 11-3. Sub-junior: Rachana Bajaj bt Maitreyee Nigwekar 5-11, 11-7, 11-0.

Rashid nets brace

A brace by Rashid Shaikh enabled Gulf Oil Sainath beat Indian Gymkhana 2-0 in the Western India Football Association second division league at the Cooperage.

Other results: Division II: CFC 2 Manoj Solanki, Rakesh Solanki bt JNPT 0. Division III: CBD 1 Amit B Shetty bt Air Freight 0.

Abhishek, Sai top

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Abhishek Ravi and Sai Ghate emerged best in the boys and girls under-8 categories, respectively, of the Parle-G chess festival, organised by the Bandra Chess Association at the St Stanislaus school, Bandra.

Final standings: Boys under-8: 1 Abhishek Ravi 8.5, 2 Saurabh Nayak, 3 Akshat Kundaliya. Girls under-8: 1 Sai Ghate 6, 2 Purva Pawaskar, 3 Kavya Pai. Girls under-12: 1 Tanvi Thakur 7.5, 2 Mugdha Variyar, 3 Purva Variyar.