Shantanu Mane, a wonder boy from Sangli, put up a heart-warming show while scoring a terrific 10-11, 11-9, 11-9 win over Pune’s Ayush Khandekar in the PNB Metlife West Zone junior badminton championships held at Goregaon Sports Club here today. Both the boys fought Hard and it looked like a touch and go affair with fortunes swaying before Shantanu emerged a worthy winner.
In another close encounter, Devansh Lodha squeezed past Pune’s Jasraj Kriplani 7-11, 11-10, 11-9, But Pune’s Aditi Mahajan fought back after losing the first game against Janhvi Khanna to make the last 16 in the girls under-17 singles. 5-11, 11-8, 11-7, In the girls under-15 singles Satara’s Aarya Deshpande and MUMBAI’S Janhavi Jagtap were the impressive winners in their way into last 16.
Results:
Boys (U-17) singles (Round of 32): Ishan Bhatnagar (Raipur) bt Satyaveer Chauhan (Mum) 11-8, 11-7; Chinmay Dongarkar (Pune) bt Soham Ganacharya (Thane) 11-10, 1q1-9; Shantanu Mane (Sangli) bt Ayush Khandekar (Pune) 10-11, 11-9, 11-9; Adheep Gupta (Mum) bt Vishwam Parikh (Mum) 11-4, 11-4; Darshan Bhalerao bt Paras Doshi (Mum) 11-9, 11-8; Yash Shah (Mum) bt Manas Rane (Mum) 11-4, 11-9; Parthy Deshpande (Pune) bt Sahil Ingale (Sangli) 11-6, 11-3; Devansh Lodha bt Jasraj Kriplani (Pune) 7-11, 11-10, 11-9; Aditya Solanki (Maha) bt Harsh Chouksey (Bhopal) 11-2, 11-3; Aaditya Kadam (Vadodra) bt Arnava Singh (Pune) 11-8, 11-9; (3) Akshyan Shetty (Mum) bt Yash Sawant (Mum) 11-3, 11-2.; Gandhar Nawale (NGP) Jay Kotak (Mum) 11-9, 11-9. Siddesh Hudekar (Vasai) bt amogh nLonare (Mum) 11-2, 11-1.
Girls (U-17) singles (Round of 32): (1) Kalpita Sawant(Mum) bt Jui Rohra (Mum) 11-4, 11-2; Sakshi Suryavanshi (Sangli) bt Shivani Herlekar (Mum)b11-10, 11-4; Pooja Kachare (Mum) bt Shalomi Johnson (NGP) 11-7, 11-6; Rucha Alvekar (Mum) bt Shruti Patade (Mum) 11-10, 11-2;Aditi Mahajan (Pune) bt Janhvi Khanna 5-11, 11-8, 11-7; Gargee Degvekar (Mum) bt Pearl Sharma (Indore) 11-5, 11-6; Saniya shivalkar (Mum) bt Sriya Mehta (Ahmedabad) 11-4, 11-6; Rucha Kulkarni (Pune) bt Siddhi Jadhav (Satara) 11-9, 11-8; Malvika Bansod (NGP)) bt Manjushri Raut (Goa) 11-8, 11-4; Tanishka D (Mum) bt Pooja Singh (Mum) 11-5, 11-7;Deeksha Hardasani (Mum) bt Aishanya Srivastava (Mum) 11-5, 11-4; Vaidehi Mohite (Mum) bt Soniya Sali (Mum) 11-6, 11-3; Anjana Kumari bt Siddhi Mahajan (Pune) 11-6, 11-7; Pooja Kachare (Mum) bt Samidnya Machinder (Mum) 11-5, 11-4.