Nagpur’s Gaurav Rege gave a lesson or two to Pune’s Vineet Kamble in controlled aggression as he routed the Pune lad 21-11, 21-8 to bag the men’s title , while Mumbai City’s junior Riya Arolkar ended with a double crown on the concluding day of the DY Patil-Maharashtra State Open badminton tournament, hosted by Badminton Organisation of Raigad at the badminton courts in DY Patil stadium here today.
Gaurav with Riya
Riya, the Greater Mumbai’s top junior,who was shocked by Satara’s Siddhi Jadhav in the junior girls singles final earlier, played with a lot of calm and composure and player hern strokes with a lot of confidence to outclass Kareena Madan, also from Greater 21-13, 21-13 to win the women’s singles title. Later, she paired with Mumbai Suburbs’ Deep Rambhia to emerge the mixed doubles champion as well.The pair downed themixed pair of Thane’Nihar Kelkarand Akshaya Warang 21-14,21-16 to end with a braceof titles.
Results of all the finals:
BOR-state-champs
Women’s singles: (1) Riya Arolkar (GMBA) bt Kareena Maden (GMBA) 2121-13,21-13.
Women’s doubles: PoojaDevlekar/Varada Dixit (GM) bt Riya Arolkar/Aishwarya Narayanmurthy 21-18, 21-16.
Mixed doubles: Deep Rambhia (MS)/Riya Aroskar(GM) bt Nihil Kelkar (TH)/Akshaya Warang (GMBA) 21-18, 21-16.
Men’s singles : Gaurav Rege (NGP) bt Vineet Kamble (PN) 21-11, 2w1-8.
Men’s doubles: Viplav Kuvale/Firoj Mulani (GM)bt AkshayKadam (SAT)/Viuneet Kamble (PN) 21-10, 21 -17.
Women’s (+35) singles: Neelam Chauhan (MS) BT Purnima Deshmukh (MS) 21-13, 21-6. Women’s (+45) singles: Manjusha Sahasrabudhe (PN) bt Balvindwr Sapra (MS) 21-8, 21-13. Mixed (+35) Doubles: Purima Deshmukh(MS)/ Ajay Salvi (TH) bt Sidhraj Shah (GMBA)/Neesha Springett (MS) 21-7, 21-18.
Men’s (+35) singles: Manish Hadkar (MS) bt Sachin Phadke (PN) 16-21, 21–18, 22-20. Men’s (+45) singles: Ajay Srivastav (MS) bt Vilas Kuvale (GM) 21-10, 21-17.Men’s (+45) doubles: Ajay Srivastav/Rajesh D’Souza (MS) bt Anand Vithalkar/Anis Badami (MS) 21-17, 21-16. Mixed (+45) doubles: Sanjay Deshmukh (TH)/Balvinder Sapra (MS) bt Vilas Kuvale (GM)/Manjusha Sahasrabude (PN) 21-14,21-11.