Top seed Sachin Kshatriya scored a comfortable win against unseeded Atul Patil posting a straight games 21-11, 21-12 victory in a Men 35 pre-quarter-final match of the Yonex-Sunrise Maharashtra Veteran State Badminton Championship 2024, played at the Bombay Gymkhana courts on Monday.
However, unseeded Pawan Singh scored a shock win against second seed Dasri Prasad cruising to a 21-5, 21-11 win to advance to the quarter-finals.
In two well-contested matches, Aditya Kale got the better of Ritesh Anantwar in three tough games at 21-11, 18-21 and 21-16 in in 52 minutes, while Vipin Johnson encountered a bit of struggle against Sivan Sankar but managed to carve out a 21-7, 16-21, 21-6 win.
In women’s 35 quarter-final encounters, the top two seeds Deepti Purohit and Tejasvi Pilankar stormed into the semi-finals. The number one seed Deepti easily defeated Priyanka Modi 21-9, 21-7 and second seed 2-Tejasvi Pilankar prevailed over Rima Jain 21-9, 21-19.
In other matches, Smita Salgaonkar defeated Shubhada Patil 21-15, 21-15 and Poonam Gandhe outplayed Shalini Chauhan 21-6, 21-4.
Results – Men 35 (pre-quarter-finals): 1-Sachin Kshatriya bt Atul Patil 21-11, 21-12; Chaitanya Done bt Roby Singh 21-15, 21-13; Vipin Johnson bt Sivan Sankar 21-7, 16-21, 21-6; Chandan Jadhav bt Haresh Vanju 21-5, 21-5; Aditya Kale bt Ritesh Anantwar 21-11, 18-21, 21-16; Pawan Singh bt 2-Dasri Prasad 21-5, 21-11; Siddharth Gupta bt Saurabh Rai 21-14, 21-16; Nigel D’Sa bt Anand Saboo 21-16, 21-10.
Women 35 (quarter-finals): 1-Deepti Purohit bt Priyanka Modi 21-9, 21-7; Smita Salgaonkar bt Shubhada Patil 21-15, 21-15; Poonam Gandhe bt Shalini Chauhan 21-6, 21-4; 2-Tejasvi Pilankar bt Rima Jain 21-9, 21-19.
Men 40 (pre-quarter-finals): Nakul Bali bt Hitesh Malhotra 21-16, 21-9;Sarvesh Agrawal bt Milind Rane 21-18, 21-17; Tushar Mulay bt Rohit Athalye 21-14, 21-15; Vijesh Nair bt Krunal Fulekar 21-15, 21-13; Shelendra Rasaniya bt Anand Raut 21-8, 21-6; Amit Dudave W/o Nikhil Kolhatkar; 2- Deepak Jaitly bt Connolly Lewis 21-5, 21-14; Rakesh Pethare bt Kaushal Shah 21-10, 21-14.