Raigad’s Vaibhav Tewari was the most outstanding performers from Raigad as he beat his district mate Anish Divekar 15-9,15-13 to make the title round in the boys under-17 singles of the Maharashtra State Open badminton tournament, organized by Badminton Organisation of Raigad at DY Patil Stadium’s badminton courts today. Earlier in the quarter finals,Vaibhav had beaten another Raigad lad Soham Konde 30-26 with commanding allround display.
The men’s top seed Kaushal Dharmamer of Mumbai Suburbs outplayed Pune’s Ruturaj Deshpande,seeded fourth 15-9, 15-9. He next takes on third seeded Gaurav Rege, also from Mumbai Suburbs, who disposed off Rishab Saini, also from the suburbs 15-9. 15-12 in the other semifinal.
Vaibhav Tewari
Shravani Panchal continued to impressive in the women’s singles with yet another straight games win Ratnagiri’s Tejasvi Pilankar 15-8,15-13. She next faces Thane’s Neha Gaonkar, who brushed aside Sanvi Mardolkar (GMBA) 15-8,15-9.
Results of all the semi finals:
: Women’s singles:Shravani Panchal (GMBA) bt Tejasvi Pilankar (Ratnagiri) 15-8, 15-13; Neha Gaonkar (TH) bt Sanvi Mardolkar (GMBA) 15-8,15-9.
Men’s singles: (1) Kaushal Dharmamer (MS) bt (4)Ruturaj Deshpande (Pune) 15-9,15-9; (3) Gaurav Rege (MS) bt rishab Sainani (GMBA) 15-9,15-12.
Boys U-17 singles: Sushant Ravva (MS) bt Yash Thombare (TH) 15-9,15-13;Vaibhav Tewari (Raigad) bt Anish Divekar (Raigad) 15-6,15-8.
Girls U-17 singles : Aditi Tadas (Nagpur) bt Sejal Pathrabe (Raigad) 15-10, 15-12; Bhargavi Rambhad (Nagpur) bt Adiya Viju (Raigad) 15-9, 15-8.
Boys U-15 singles: Saransh Gajbhiye (MS) bt Gaurav Rawat (MS) 15-11,19-17; Sailesh Singh(-) bt Nishant Galande(Raigad) 8-15, 15-8,15-7.
Girls U-15 singles : Aalisha Naik (MS) bt Aditi Tadas (Nagpur) 15-9, 15-13; Madhumita Narayan (TH) bt Parineeta Magdum (Raigad) 15-5,15-12.
Girls U-13 singles: Aalisha Naik (MS) bt Manali Parulekar (MS) 15-11,15-12; Siya Singh (MS) bt Nirmitee Gajbhiye (MS) 15-6,16-14.
Boys U-13 singles: Sharan Pillai (Raigad) bt Lakshya Chouhan (MS) 15-12, 15-7; Prakhar Jain (MS) bt Siddhant Shankar (MS) 13-15, 15-12,15-6.
Girls U-11: Prakriti Sharma bt (-) bt Shravani Patil (Nashik) -13 15-11; Natasha Kaur (GMBA) bt Kashish Singh (Raigad) 15-11, 15-9.
Boys U-11: Soham Shinde (Satara) bt Tanish Patil (MS) 15-11,15-9; Parth Deore (Nashik) bt Ahaan Nitsurer (GMBA) 15-3, 15-9.