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This is an archive article published on August 7, 1997

Smooth sailing for Vikrant

Aug 6: All four men's seeds won their second round matches easily, without dropping a game at the Cricket Club of India in the Greater Mumb...

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Aug 6: All four men’s seeds won their second round matches easily, without dropping a game at the Cricket Club of India in the Greater Mumbai District badminton tournament today.

Top-seed Vikrant Patwardhan hardly ever looked in trouble against Niraj Chhibbar, defeating him 15-11, 15-4 in 20 minutes. The wiry left-hander was too powerful for Chhibbar who could not carry his first game enthusiasm into the second and was a beaten man almost from the beginning itself.

No. 2 seed Vivek Gautam went past Bipin Singh 15-0, 15-2, while third-seed Manohar Kanchawade had more than a measure of Ness Buhariwala in a one-sided 15-1, 15-2 conquest.

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Kunal Vaswani, seeded No. 4 had little trouble brushing past Sachin Bharati 15-5, 15-3.

Behzad Devadhwala, seeded No. 1 in the boy’s section, registered wins in both boy’s and men’s singles. He defeated Abhishek Das 15-7, 15-4 in in a men’s second round match. Half an hour later, he was back doing business as usual as the top-seed, pushing aside the challenge of Gaurav L.

Devadhwala needed just 14 minutes to get past Gaurav 15-1, 15-0, showing no sign of having played a match earlier.

The match of the day was the three-game 40-minute marathon between Anil Raikundalia and Bharat Bhosale, which the former won 15-8, 6-15, 15-5.

Results

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Men’s singles (1st round): Navazad Daji bt Pranil Acharekar 15-0, 15-2; Sachin Bharati bt Imran Maindargi 15-2, 15-3; Bharat Bhosle bt Vinayak Patankar 15-5, 15-3; Abhishek Das bt Suresh Jadav 15-0, 15-2; Ness Buhariwala bt Shaukat Noor Mohammad 15-13, 15-12; Anant Chavan bt Raj Panchamtaia 15-6, 15-1

2nd round: Vikrant Patwardhan bt Niraj Chhibbar 15-11, 15-4; Harshad Tawade bt Navazad Daji 15-7, 15-0; Kunal Vaswani bt Sachin Bharati 15-5, 15-3; Anil Raikundalia bt Bharat Bhosale 15-8,, 6-15, 15-5; Behzad Devadhwala bt Abhishek Das 15-7, 15-4; Manohar Kanchwade bt Ness Buhariwala 15-1, 15-2; Vivek Gautam bt Bipin Singh 15-0, 15-2

Midget boy’s (1st round): Aniket Limaye bt Suraj Singh Guleria 15-10, 15-1; Janit Desai bt Himanshu Pendse 15-5, 15-1 2nd round: Swapnil Vyavaharkar bt Rouneet Gill 15-4, 15-1

Midget girl’s singles (1st round): Aditi Kulkarni bt Kanisha Vora 11-0, 11-0; Anushka Sahani bt Pooja B 9-11, 11-1, 11-1; Ketaki Rajsimha bt Priyanka Tawade 11-8, 11-3; Namrata Tidake bt Aanchal Vaswani 11-8, 11-6; Shivani Mayekar bt Nilima Bhoir 11-0, 11-1; Ridhi Mota bt Rima Zaveri 11-0, 11-1, Shraddha Bharati bt Aditi Parekh 11-4, 12-10; Paikakode 18-17, 15-2; Aditya Bhide bt Vivek Baid 15-2, 15-1.

Gupta goes down to Modi

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Siddharth Gupta lead 10-1 in the first game and still lost the match 17-18, 7-15 to Paras Modi in the under-13 Suburban badminton tournament at the MIG Cricket Club today.Modi recovered from 1-10 to level scores at 17-17 before taking the game and thereafter the match.Top-seed Sagar Chopra had little trouble in beating Siddharth Pillai 15-5, 15-6 in another under-13 match.

RESULTS

Men’s singles (1ST ROUND): Himanshu Chande bt J Janardhan 15-6, 15-5; Santosh Kshatriya bt Mandar Ranade 15-7, 15-12; Amit Desai bt Tejas Desai 15-7, 15-8; Karan Modi bt Sethu Madhu 15-2, 15-4

Boy’s under-13 (second round): Sagar Chopra bt Siddharth Pillai 15-5, 15-6; Anand Pawar bt Sagar Bajaj 18-16, 15-8; Abhishek J bt Abhishek P 17-16, 15-3; M Narayan bt Sahil Sarrang 15-0, 15-11; Paras Modi bt Siddharth Gupta 18-17, 15-7; Kumar Ravindran btt Sankalp Mainkurve 15-4, 15-1; Ajay Jayram bt Jayesh Dongre 15-2, 15-1

Boys under-10 (second round): Ajay Jayaram bt Abhinav Kapoor 15-0, 15-5; Devi Prasad bt Amit Deshpande 15-1, 15-1; Sathya S bt Rushil Sirur 15-1, 15-1; Siddharth Bhimani bt Mehul Sirur 15-0, 15-0

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Girl’s under-13: Nikita Hurrrkadli bt Amrita Sawani 11-0, 11-2; Aditi Mutatkar bt Rita Kiro 11-9, 11-2; Riddhi Punjawani bt Saumya Pahye 11-0, 11-0; Sumitra Gantayat bt Anuja Pandey 11-0, 11-3

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