Vaishnavi Bhale, a 19-year-old collegian from Nagpur, put up a terrific show as she shocked top-seeded Revati Devasthale from Pune, to storm into the women’s singles semifinals in the Safal Group-Maharashtra State senior badminton championships, organized by Sports United at Chembur Gymkhana, here today.
Vaishnavi Bhale
Favourite Revati started in a whirwind way as she pocketed the first game 21-12. But Vaishanavi hit back with vengence Vaishnavi rallied splendidly to win the tie 12-21, 21-16, 21-19 in an hour long battle of attrition. However, the other seeds, second seeded Riya Pillai, third seeded Mudra Dhainje and fourth seeded sailed into last four as they won their respective singles in straight games.
Fancied Abhishek S. Kulkarni, of Pune was taken the dfistance by Greater Mumbai’s ViplavKuwale before he prevailed at 15-13, 13-15, 15-9 iun about 40 minutes to make the men’s singles quarterfinals. But top seeded Harsheel Dani hardly faced any opposition as he beat Pune’s Ajeet Kumbhar 15-8, 15-7..
Results : Women’s singles (Quaterfinals): Vaishnavi Bhale (NGP) bt (1) Revati Devasthale (PN) 12-21, 21-16, 21-19; (3) Mudra Dhainje (PN) bt Vaishnavi Iyer (MS) 21-11, 21-12; (4) Neha Pandit bt Shruti Mundada (PN) 21-13, 21-15; (2) Riya Pillai (MS) bt Vaidehi Choudhari 14-21, 21-16, 21-10. (Pre-quarterfinals): (3) Mudra Dhainje (PN) bt Kareena Madon (GM) 15-6, 15-8; Vaishnavi Bhale bt Aishwarya N 15-10, 15-11; Shruti Mundada (PN) bt Radhika Bhambre (DHU) 15-9, 15-11; (2) Riya Pillai (MS) bt Sanika Walawalkar (PN) 15-3, 15-4; (4) Neha Pandit (PN) bt Jyot Kaur Rekhi (MS) 15-10, 15-11; Vaishnavi Iyer (MS) bt Bhakti Dahsahasra (NGP) 15-7, 15-13.
Men’s singles (Pre-quarterfinals): (1) Harsheel Dani (MS) bt Ajeet Kumbhar (PN) 15-8, 15-7; ; (4) Arjeet Bose (MS) bt Likhith Bangera (MS) 15-12, 15-7; (3) Nigel D’Sa (GM) bt Vinayak Dandawate (NS) 15-4, 15-2; Abhishek S. Kulkarni (PN) bt Viplav Kuwale (GM) 15-13, 13-15, 1-9; Purushottam Awate (TH) bt Sonu Kumar (TH) 15-7, 15-5.
(Round of 32): (1) Harsheel Dani (MS) bt Rajan Sawant (GM) 15-6, 15-8; Ajeet Kumbhar (PN) bt Aditya Shendge (PN) 15-6, 15-10; Akshar Raut (TH) bt Akshat Patil (MS) 15-12, 15-10; (3) Nigel D’Sa (GM) bt Vineet Kamble (PN) 15-10, 15-8; Amit Khadgi (MS) bt Apoorva Javdekar (PN) 15-6, 15-8; Anmol Behrani (MS) bt Satyajeet Jadgdhane (TH) 15-11, 15-8; Viplav Kuwale (GM) bt Nikhil Kolhatkar (MS) 14-15, 15-11, 15-8; (4) Arjeet Bose (MS) bt Manish Hadkar (MS) 156-6, 15-7; Abhijeet S. Kulkarni (PN) bt Ruturaj Deshpande (PN) 15-7, 15-8; Purushottam Awate (TH) bt Harshad Bhagwat (PN) 15-14, 15-13; Deep Rambhia (TH) bt Jayant Prabhu (PN) 15-10, 15-13; (2)Siddharth Thakur (NSK) bt Aman S. Farogh (TH) 15-10, 15-11; Sonu Kumar (TH) bt Tahsin Khan ((PN) 15-10, 15-14; Likhith Bangera (MS) bt Siddharth Nageshkar (MS) 15-8, 15-8; Amey Joshi (MS) bt Rushekwsh Kale (PN) 15-6, 15-8.
CLOCK FOR TUESDAY
BADMINTON – 9 am onwards – open men’s and women’s singles and doubles semifinals, Maharashtra State championships, Chembur Gymkhana.