Three titles for IES; Anne’s triumph

MUMBAI, AUG 19: IES VN SULE School, Dadar claimed the Under-17 boys and girls titles in the DSO (city) inter-school badminton tournament ...

MUMBAI, AUG 19: IES VN SULE School, Dadar claimed the Under-17 boys and girls titles in the DSO (city) inter-school badminton tournament at Sachivalaya Gymkhana today. While the boys defeated Antonio Da Silva 2-1, the girls beat SIES by a similar margin. IES also retained the Under-14 boys title, blanking Bombay Scottish 2-0 in the final.

The girls U-14 event produced a new winner, St Anne’s, Fort. St Anne’s, making their debut in the event, rallied to beat GD Somani 2-1, after Mansi Seth had lost the opening singles to Aanchal Vaswani. Ruia and RA Podar claimed the U-19 boys and girls titles respectively.

RESULTS (ALL FINALS)

Boys (U-14): IES VN Sule bt Bombay Scottish 2-0 (Rohit Prabhu bt Amod Athavale 15-1 15-3; Rohit/ Aditya Kini bt Amod/ Salil Mongia 15-6 15-6).

(U-17): IES VN Sule bt Antonio Da Silva, Dadar 2-1 (Kailash Dalvi lost to Sushil Sawant 2-15 1-15; Kailash/ Aniket Limaye bt Sushil/ Cayton Athogius 15-8 15-7; Aniket w/o Dharmesh Shah).

(U-19): Ruia bt DG Ruparel 2-0 (Amit Singhbt Sagar Khanna 15-1 6-2 conceded; Amit/ Indrajit Tawde bt Sagar/ Nihar Joshi 15-7 15-6).

Girls (U-14): St Anne’s bt GD Somani 2-1 (Mansi Seth lost to Aanchal Vaswani 8-11 6-11; Mansi/ Madhura Paranjpe bt Aanchal/ Apeksha Gupta 15-1 15-5; Vasudha Somani bt Pooja Khanna 11-5 13-11).

U-17: IES VN Sule bt SIES 2-1 (Madhura Mohadikar lost to Deepti Nair 12-13 4-11; Shivani Mayekar/ Aditi Kulkarni bt Deepti/ Aparajita Srivastava 15-2 15-0; Shivani bt Aparajita 11-0 11-0).

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U-19: RA Podar bt HR Commerce 2-0 (Amodi Borkar bt Resham Bathija 11-0 11-0; Ramya Venkat/ Yesha Sanghvi bt Resham/ Devanshi Joshi 15-1 15-4).

Patwardhan advances

Top seed Vikrant Patwardhan advanced to the third round in the senior State Selection badminton tournament at NSCI today. The left-handed Patwardhan defeated Rahul Deshpande 15-12, 15-13.

RESULTS

Men’s singles (second round): Vikrant Patwardhan bt Rahul Deshpande 15-12, 15-13; Prashant Bahatre bt Behzaad Devadhwala 15-1, 15-2; Bhushan Akut bt Anand Chavan15-3, 15-4; Murali Subramaniam bt Bhushan Paithankar 17-14, 15-6; Vivek Gautam bt Shyam Kanade 15-1, 15-3; Mayur Tawade bt Sachin Bharati 15-4, 15-11; Rohan Radhakrishnan bt Sushan Nidodi 110-15, 15-9, 15-8; Nitin Ingole bt Rahul Tipnis 15-12, 15-11; Amogh Kulkarni bt Anupam Singh 15-3, 15-5; Arvindam Chaudhary bt Deepak Jetly 15-9, 15-4; Vinayak Puthran bt Vilas Kuwale 15-4, 15-8.

First round: Prashant Bahatre bt Ashish Bhide 15-12, 15-10; Devadhwala w/o Utthay Kumar; Murali S bt Ajay Salvi 15-1, 15-4; Bhushan Paithankar bt Abhijit Ayarekar 15-8, 13-15, 15-8; Kunal Vaswani bt Mandar Ranade 15-13, 15-6; Akshay Thakkar bt Mayur Bhojwani 15-3, 15-1; Amogh K bt Yogesh Ekbote 15-2, 15-2; Anupam Singh bt Rohan Wankhede 15-0, 15-5; Nitin Ingole w/o Yogesh Mistry; R Tipnis bt V P Gupta 15-2, 15-3; V Putharan bt Bhavesh Jhaveri 15-1, 15-6; V Kuwale bt Yogesh Padukone 15-17, 15-5, 15-10; R Rohan bt Kiran Desai 15-3, 15-2; Sushan Nidodi w/o Abhijit Gandhi; Himanshu Thakkar bt Mayur Saraf 15-4, 15-2; Saurabh Bobade btJiten Sadhuwani 15-5, 15-11.