Pune shuttler Aditi Rode continued with her impressive run of winning form and quashed the spirited challenge from compatriot Ssandhya Melash by snatching a tight 21-16, 19-21, 26-24 victory in an absorbing women’s singles (35+) semi-final contest of 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.
Aditi Rode
Earlier, Rode sent second seed Linta Mathew of Mumbai Suburban crashing out in the quarter-final by charging to a comfortable 21-7, 21-7 win.
In the final, Rode will clash with top seed Palkan Dave of Mumbai Suurban who outclassed Thane’s Komal Chandiramani 21-2, 21-6. Palkan Dave had defeated Shikha Lamb of Greater Mumbai 21-11, 21-9 in the quarter-finals.
Top seed Aditya Pandya (Mum Sub) and unseeded Apoorva Javadekar (Pune) will meet in the men’s (35+) finals. In the first semi-final Pandya was leading 19-18 when his opponent Nikhil Kolhatkar (Mum Sub) retired due to an injury. Meanwhile, Javadekar easily defeated Sushanth Shetty (Mum Sub) 21-14, 21-10.
Results –
Women’s singles (35+) – Semi-finals: 1-Palkan Dave (Mum Sub) beat Komal Chandiramani (Thane) 21-2, 21-6; Aditi Rode (Pune) beat Ssandhya Melash (Pune) 21-16, 19-21, 26-24.
Quarter-finals: 1-Palkan Dave (Mum Sub) beat Shikha Lamb (Gr. Mum) 21-11, 21-9; Komal Chandiramani (Thane) beat Ashwini Koshti (Mum Sub) 21-18, 21-12; Ssandhya Melash (Pune) beat Rekha Hegde (Thane) 21-5, 21-5; Aditi Rode (Pune) beat 2-Linta Mathew (Mum Sub) 21-7, 21-7.
Women’s singles (40+) – Quarter-finals: 1-Swapnal Chakrabarty (Thane) beat Purnima Deshmukh (Mum Sub) 21-7, 21-4; Leena Dhapre (Pune) beat Sarita Jethwani (Mum Sub) 21-3, 21-9; Prerana Joshi (Pune) beat Neelam Chauhan (Mum Sub) 21-11, 21-5; 2-Urvashi Thapa (Gr. Mum) beat Drishti Kukreja (Mum Sub) 21-6, 21-7.
Men’s singles (35+) – Semi-finals: 1-Aditya Pandya (Mum Sub) beat Nikhil Kolhatkar (Mum Sub) 19-18 retired; Apoorva Javadekar (Pune) beat Sushanth Shetty (Mum Sub) 21-14, 21-10.
Quarter-finals: 1-Aditya Pandya (Mum Sub) beat Abhimanyu Baste (Thane) 21-6, 21-5;
Nikhil Kolhatkar (Mum Sub) beat Connolly Lewis (Mum Sub) 21-13, 21-13;
Sushanth Shetty (Mum Sub) beat Sandeeb Kurian (Thane) 21-1, 21-16;
Apoorva Javadekar (Pune) beat 2-Abhishek Patil (Nashik) 21-14, 21-17.
Men’s singles (40+) – Quarter-finals: 1-Siddharth Patil (Aurangabad) beat Raghav Bhosale (Thane) 21-11, 21-8; Nilesh Phansalkar (Satara) beat Ameet Tare (Pune) 21-8, 21-7; Vikrant Karanjkar (Nashik) beat Manish Hadkar (Palghar) 22-20, 21-18; 2-Sandeep Mohan (Mum Sub) beat Rajan Samant (Gr. Mum) 21-18, 20-22, 21-18.
Men’s singles (45+) – Quarter-finals: Yogesh Padukone (Gr. Mum) beat 1-Ashutosh Pednekar (Gr. Mum) 21-14, 21-9; Gautam Laud (Gr. Mum) beat Pankaj Pathak (Latur) 21-7, 21-12; Kiran Makode (Nagpur) beat Santosh Kshatriya (Mum Sub) 21-8, 21-3; Ajay Salvi (Palghar) beat Anorag Bhandarkar (Thane) 21-10, 21-9.
Men’s singles (50+) – Quarter-finals: 1-Murli Subramaniam (Mum Sub) beat Vijay Mhatre (Raigad) 21-9, 21-11; Prashant Mukherjee (Raigad) w/o Milind Kulkarni (Ahmednagar); Shailesh Daga (Gr. Mum) beat Atul Kulkarni (Aurangabad) 21-11, 21-12; 2-Gurmeet Singh Matharu (Aurangabad) beat Vilas Kuvale (Gr. Mum) 12-21, 23-21, 21-16.