PUNE, February 16: Amit Bhingurde of Telco overcame a stiff challenge of hosts' Sharad Manjrekar in three games to win the singles title in final of the Industrial Badminton Championships organised by Cummins India Limited (CIL) here today. The final scoreline read 15-9, 3-15, 15-10.Later S R Mohite, Sr. General Manager, Krupp Industries Ltd., was the Chief guest at the prize distribution function.RESULTS (all finals)MEN'S (Singles): Amit Bhingurde (Telco) bt Sharad Manjrekar (CIL) 15-9, 3-15, 15-10.(Doubles): Sunil Pundlik/Manoj Deswandikar (Telco) bt Anil Patil/Dinar Apte (KSB) 15-13, 15-5.VETERAN'S (Singles): Sharad Manjrekar (CIL) bt Madhukar Mannur (KPC) 15-6, 15-6.(Doubles): Madhukar Mannur/Sharad Karwade (KPC) bt Sharad Manjrekar/Pradip Bapat (CIL) 15-11, 15-11.PRANAV, PANAGHA, ESHA WIN: PRANAV Akolkar, Panagha Magal and Esha Karwade did the city proud as they captured three titles out of the possible four in their respective age groups in therecently concluded State-level chess championship organised by the Marathwada Chess Association (MCA) in Aurangabad. In the boys under-14 section, talented Pranav collected 7.5 points, defeating Onkar Patwardhan of Sangli in the final round (Round nine). Santosh Sapkal finished runners-up with seven points.Meanwhile, Panagha added another feather in her cap, winning her sixth State-level title. She aggregated 5.5 points, while Shradha Sagani of Kolhapur finished second.Esha got the better of her citymate Krutika Nadig in the sixth and final round to win the girls under-12 category crown with a total of 5.5 points. Nagpur's Hemlata Jaswani fells short of the leader by half a point.The only crown that eluded the Pune players was the boys under-12 section, wherein, Gurpritsingh Bharas of Nagpur defeated Rohan Parwarwar of Sangli to clinch the title. Mumbai's Amar Kamat stood second.The meet also formed basis for the selection trials of the State team in the boys and girls under-12 and 14 sections.The first two players in each section represent Maharashtra in the National Championship to be held in May.HERO HONDA MASTERSThe concluding event of the city tennis circuit for juniors - Hero Honda Masters Tennis will commence at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana courts from February 21. The event to be organised by the Poona Junior Tennis will conclude on February 25.The top sixteen boys and the top eight girls in each age group, selected on the basis of their performances in the earlier three leg of the tourney will be seen in action.Players should confirm their entries with Hemant Bendrey before February 19 by 6.00 p.m..Following are the list of players qualified for the MastersBOYS(U-10): Hrishkesh Pataskar, Kalyan Sudarshan, Sumit Satoskar, Ruwed Apte, Akash Gujrathi, Bhushan Bhopardikar, Gaurav Ganpule, Bhushan Sardesai, Rohan Gide, Rohan Shah, Tejas Chaukukar, Rohan Pandit, Kunal Bhide, Varun Patwardhan, Rahul Kakkar, Akash Wagh. Reserve: NIkhil Puranik, RohitSathe, Salil Gadkar.(U-12): Arjun Vaidya, Shrivardhan Vaidya, Aniruddha Kulkarni, Rohan Apte, Vedang Bhagwat, Vikrant Sane, Anupam Sonalkar, Hrishikesh Pataskar, Gautam Smarth, Rohan Deshpande, Jaideep Rajhans, Rahul Pawar, Varun Oak, Shwetej Raste, Trideep Chaudary, Dhruval Kothari, Ganesh Salvi. Reserve: Udit Bansal, Abhishek Wakankar, Sandeep Risbud.(U-14): Dhananjay Kawde, Vikrant Sane, Siddarth Desai, Annirudha Kulkarni, Arjun Vaidya, Shashank Kulkarni, Abhijit Salpe, Khistij Gujrathi, Rohan Apte, Shyam Pednekar, Shrivardhan Vaidya, Joytindra Kanekar, Neil Mundra, Prasad Bokil, Amit Phadke, Anupam Sonalkar. Reserve: Kunal Mutha, Shwetyej Raste.(U-16): Sunil Kusalkar, Abhishek Tamhane, Ankiet Joglekar, Varun Magikar, Kedar Shah, Jyotindra Kanekar, Gautam Padmanabhan, Ankush Chabbra, Pratik Sharma, Khistij Gujrathi, Deepesh Rao, Alok Nair, Dhananjay Kawde, Shashank Kulkarni, Siddarth Desai, Sarang Devi. Reserve: Neil Mundra, Abhijit Salpe, Neeraj Anand(U-18): AdityaKanitkar, Alok Nair, Gopal Jadhav, Varun Magikar, Yogesh Bhatia, R. Kartik Raj, Abhishek Tamhane, Abhijit Ganu, Kedar Shah, Aniket Joglekar, Abhishek Soman, Neeraj Anand, Akshay Jagdale, Deepesh Rao, Mandar Wakankar, Chirag Shah, Gautam Padmanabhan, Swarag Bhosale, Siddarth Gandhi.GIRLS(U-10): Ketaki Modak, Sonia Bhantia, Sajiri Deshpande, Gayatri Pawar, Urmila Salvi, Nikita Atal, Sayali Pathak, Sonia Patwardhan.(U-12): Kartiki Bhatt, Shraddha Loddha, Ronak Shah, Neha Sane, Jui Chitnis, Avanti Sulankhe, Priti Sathe, Komal Joshi, Richa Karkare.(U-14): Noopur Desai, Aslesha Lokhande, Priyanka Mehta, Shweta Chabbra, Vrushali Gawhankar, Neha Nageshkar, Priti Bhatia, Sneha Bhise, Madhura Deshpande.(U-12): Payal Sharma, Jahanvi Sunderrajan, Shweta Bakre, Amruta Vaishyampayan, Noopur Desai, Vrushali Gawhankar, Ashlesha Lokhhande, Priyanka Mehta, Shweta Chabbra, Shweta Chabbra.
