Sushanth Shetty of Mumbai Suburban District put in a determined effort and managed to overcome Pune District’s Sarang Vyas in three tough games, pulling off a 21-10, 18-21, 21-16 victory to march into the quarter-finals of the men’s singles (35+) event in the Maharashtra Badminton Association Senior State Veteran’s Championship – 2018 organised and co-hosted by Badminton 45 and Bombay Gymkhana and played at the gymkhana’s badminton courts on Friday.
Sushanth Shetty of Mumbai Suburban District overcome Pune District’s Sarang Vyas to march into the quarter-finals of the men’s singles (35+) event in an men’s (55+) singles match of the Maharashtra Badminton Association Senior State Veteran’s Championship
In another keenly contested encounter, Apoorva Javadekar of Pune showed strong fighting qualities as he recovered from the loss of the first game and bounced back to the win the next two to defeat Rustam Warden of Greater Mumbai by a close 16-21, 21-15, 21-14 win to advance to the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, the top seed Aditya Pandya of Mumbai Suburban easily defeated Sarvesh Agrawal of Amravati 21-7, 21-5 and Nashik’s second seed Abhishek Patil outplayed city mate Yogesh Dusanee 21-3, 21-6 to also progress to the quarter-finals.
In women’s action, Shikha Lamb of Greater Mumbai tamed Pranali Vid of Mumbai Suburban 21-3, 21-15 in a first round encounter and will meet top seed Palkan Dave of Mumbai Suburban in the quarters.
Pune’s Aditi Rode also booked a place in the last eight round after defeating Sushmita Dutta of Mumbai Suburban 21-14, 21-9. Rode will take on second seed Linta Mathew of Mumbai Suburban in the last eight round.
Results –
Women’s singles (35+) – 1st round: Shikha Lamb (Gr. Mum) beat Pranali Vid (Mum Sub) 21-3, 21-15; Ashwini Koshti (Mum Sub) beat Deepti Shetty (Mum Sub) 21-12, 21-19; Ssandhya Melash (Pune) beat Farogh Mukadam (Thane) 21-9, 21-6; Aditi Rode (Pune) beat Sushmita Dutta (Mum Sub) 21-14, 21-9.
Men’s singles (35+) – 2nd round: 1-Aditya Pandya (Mum Sub) beat Sarvesh Agrawal (Amravati) 21-7, 21-5; Abhimanyu Baste (Thane) w/o Pranay Mestry (Raigad) Connolly Lewis (Mum Sub) w/o Ajay Dayal (Nagpur); Nikhil Kolhatkar (Mum Sub) beat Sachin Mankar (Pune) 21-2, 21-9; Sushanth Shetty (Mum Sub) beat Sarang Vyas (Pune) 21-10, 18-21, 21-16; Sandeeb Kurian (Thane) beat Prashant Bahatre (Thane) 17-10 retired hurt; Apoorva Javadekar (Pune) beat Rustam Warden (Gr Mum) 16-21, 21-15, 21-14; 2-Abhishek Patil (Nashik) beat Yogesh Dusanee (Nashik) 21-3, 21-6.
Men’s singles (45+) – 3rd round: 1-Ashutosh Pednekar (Gr. Mum) beat Sujay Kumar P.V. (Thane) 21-14, 21-9; Yogesh Padukone (Gr. Mum) beat Sanjay Dhote (Amravati) 21-6, 21-9; Pankaj Pathak (Latur) beat Avinash Gode (Thane) 21-7, 21-17; Gautam Laud (Gr. Mum) beat Rakesh Raghavan (Thane) 21-12, 21-15; Santosh Kshatriya (Mum Sub) beat Snehal Kale (Pune) 21-11, 21-13; Kiran Makode (Nagpur) beat Zakriya Sheikh (Mum Sub) 21-4, 21-13; Ajay Salvi (Palghar) beat Mahesh Kulkarni (Pune) 21-11, 17-21, 21-16; Anorag Bhandarkar (Thane) beat Yogesh Ekbote (Nashik) 21-14, 22-20.
Men’s singles (50+) 2nd round: 1-Murli Subramaniam (Mum Sub) beat Sandeep Saxena (Thane) 21-6, 21-12; Vijay Mhatre (Raigad) beat Sanjay Dhakite (Raigad) 25-17, 21-14, 21-15; Prashant Mukherjee (Raigad) beat Sukhdev Maharashtra (Thane) 21-12, 21-8; Milind Kulkarni (Ahmednagar) beat Deeepakkumar Damania (Gr. Mum) 21-11, 19-21, 21-17; Shailesh Daga (Gr. Mum) beat Uday Gaikwad (Thane) 21-6, 21-10; Atul Kulkarni (Aurangabad) w/o Sanjay Chaudhari (Amravati); Vilas Kuvale (Gr. Mum) beat Sarma Nemani (Thane) 21-11, 21-11; 2-Gurmeet Singh Matharu W/o Dinesh Mali (Thane).