Junior pair of Akshan Shetty and Arya Shetty combined well to score an impressive 30-20 win over Abhishek Tuluskar and Neha Amin to move into the third round of the men’s doubles of the Maharashtra State Open Doubles Challenge, which got off to fine start at Goregaon Sports Club here today. All the matches are being played over 30 points till quarterfinal stage.
Bombay Gymkhana ( +90) pair of Ayaz Billiawala & Gautam Ashra in action.
In some other interesting ties in the mixed doubles, Mekhta Ambekar and Vivek Gupta put up good show while beating Sanika Walawalkar and Soham Kulkarni 30-27 and Juhi Rohra and Mohit Kanani got the better of Lavina Quadros and Kunal Palwankar 30-20. In the men’s doubles, Anup Singh and Radhekrishnan struggled bit on their way to 30-27 win over Rishi Mantri and Yash Garech 30-27 and Sunny Gondhalia and Shreeyas Kotian put out Amit Singh and Sanbdeep by an identical margin.
Results:
Mixed doubles (2nd round): Kiran Shete/Manish Kumar bt Isha Datta Peer Mohd 30-25; Akshan Shetty/Arya Shetty bt Abhishek Tulaskar/Neha Amin 30-20; Mekhta Ambekar/Vivek Gupta bt Sanika Walawalkar/Soham Kulkarni 30-27; Juhi Rohera/Mohit Kanani bt Lavina Quadros/Kunal Palwankar 30-20.
Men’s open doubles (2nd round): Anup Singh/Radhekrishnan bt Rishi Mantri/Yash FGarach 30-27; Sunny Gondhia/Shreeyas Kotian bt Amit Singh/Sandeep 30-26; Gaurav Sawant/Udit Kadaker bt Prem Rohra/Soham Seth30-27;Siddharth Nageshkar/ Rohan Kadam bt Kamal Singh/Sachin Wani 30-20;
The seedings are: Men’s Open Doubles: 1. Prasad Shetty/Abhidnya Sawant; 2. Shlok Ramchandran/Aditya Pandya; 3. Arijeet Bose/Amit Khadgi; 4. Sai Dinesh Reddy/Deep Rambhia.
Women’s doubles: 1. Aishwarya N/Vallari Bukhane; 2. Jyoti Rekhi/Himanshi Pandey.
Mixed doubles: 1. Shlok Ramchandran/Farah Mooljibhai; 2. Amit Khadgi/Aishwarya N; 3.Sai Dinesh Reddy/Himanshi Pandey; 4. Deep Rambhia/Radhika Dagaonkar.
Mixed (+70) doubles: 1. Neesha Springetti/Fabian Dennis; 2. Mandar Ranade/Amruta Bhise.
Men’s (+80) doubles: 1. Ayaz Billiwala/Sailesh Dagga; 2. Sushant Niddodi/Rajiv Sampat 3. Yogesh Padukone/Sanjeev Mahajan; 4. Vilas Kuwale/Rajat Moitra.
Men’s (+90) doubles: 1. Ayaz Billiawala/Gautam Ashra; 2. Sailesh Dagga/Sanjeev Mahajan; 3. Anus Badami/Rajesh D’Souza; 4. Rajiv Sampat/Ajay Srivastava.
Men’s (+100) doubles: 1. Leroy D’Sa/Yogesh Padukone; 2. Ayaz Billiawala/Sanjay Sharma; 3. Ajay Srivastava/Himanshu Vaidya; 4. Saiklesh Dagga/Gautam Ashra.
CLOCK FOR SATURDAY
BADMINTON – 10.30 A.M. ONWARDS – Maharashtra State Open Doubles Challenge, Goregaon Sports Club