Naman Khunnah and Piyush Kamble in contrasting fashion won their respective round of 32 matches of the CCI-GMBA Yonex Sunrise District Badminton Championship 2023, and played at the CCI badminton courts on Sunday.
In a match of fluctuating fortunes, Khunnah showed tremendous fighting qualities as he came from behind to overcome Deepak Jaitly, winning in three tough games at 18-21, 22-20 and 21-18.
In contrast, 18-year-old Piyush Kamble, a first year student of R.A. Podar College was in complete control against Jehan Daboo and cruised to a straight games win. The left-handed Kamble, who last December had won the DSO Boys’ Under-19 singles crown, romped to a comfortable 21-12, 21-17 victory.
Meanwhile, seasoned campaigner and former champion Nigel D’Sa easily advanced to the round of 16 defeating Meet Shah 21-12, 21-12. Shah had earlier prevailed over Himanshu Bokadia 21-5, 21-5.
Results – Boys U-13 singles (round-32): Hussain Sayed bt Rudvesh Loke 21-7, 21-10; Atharva Kakade bt Arora Sohum 21-6, 21-5; Aaditya Verma bt Divyanshu Kumar Rai 21-19, 21-17; Amaal Kotak W/o Abeer Siddique; Rahil More bt Aziz Electricwala 21-8, 21-8; Ruhaan Bhatia bt Hridhaan Bhatia 21-5, 21-6.
Men’s singles – Round-32: 1-Siddhesh Raut bt Tilak Kanungo 21-8, 21-2; Manjunath Chavan bt K.V. Ramana 21-12, 21-11; Satyasheel Kulkarni bt Sandeep S Pophale 21-10, 21-8; Aaryavardhan Jadhav bt Kunal Kale 21-7, 21-9; 4-Ameya Nakashe bt Vedant Sawant 21-13, 21-5; Shreyans Mehta bt Siva Sankar 21-7, 21-13; Daras Nadar bt Rohit Athalye 21-12, 21-14; Pranav Kamble bt Manmohan Varma 21-5, 21-5; Jawad Shaikh bt Krish Thakur 21-5, 21-15; Nigel D’Sa bt Meet Shah 21-12, 21-12; Piyush Kamble bt Jehan Daboo 21-12, 21-17; 3-Ruturaj Rathod bt Pranav Shah 21-6, 21-10; Naman Khunnah bt Deepak Jaitly 18-21, 22-20, 21-18; Shubham Pal bt Nirav Sthalekar 21-10, 21-8; Pratik Tiwari bt Rohit Sundaram 24-22, 21-10; 2-Yash Tiwari bt Srikant Rai 21-8, 21-14.
Round-64: K.V. Ramana bt Manan Shah 21-8, 21-8; Kunal Kale bt Siddharth Singh 19-21, 21-14, 21-19; Siva Sankar bt Namit Arora 21-1, 21-12; Manmohan Varma bt Narendra Rathia 21-13, 21-18; Krish Thakur bt Vikas Katariya 21-8, 21-2; Meet Shah bt Himanshu Bokadia 21-5, 21-5; Jehan Daboo bt Suryansha Sheth 21-12, 21-19; Naman Khunnah W/o Rahil Shah; Rohit Sundaram bt Abhi Jain 21-9, 21-14.