Khar Gymkhana-Maharashtra State Veterans Tennis Tournament
Top seed Neetin Kirtane showed glimpses of his old days while packing off Sarfaraz Jumani without dr0pping a game) in the belatedly played men’s (plus 35) singles to breeze into last eight of the Khar Gymkhana-Maharashtra State Veterans Tennis Tournament at their courts here today.However, Imran Yusoof, the second seed, did face a bit of problem initially before putting out Sandeep Pawar 9-3 to make the last four..
Interestingly, the toughest tie of the day proved to be men’s doubles (plus 75) which saw the pair of Rafik Khot and Salim Khan scoring over hosts pair of Sunil Lalchandan and Sunil Kukreja 9-8 with the tie-breaker resolving it 7-4 .
Results:
Men (+35) singles (Quarterfinals): Neetin Kirtane bt Sarfraz Jumani 9-0; Chetan Jadhav bt Vijandra Giri 9-7; Aditya Sanghvi bt Amit Sahita 9-4; Mangela Gajju bt Santosh Kasare 9-4; Pravin Jadhav bt Aakash Kale 9-2; Amit Tambe btPrasad Nakti 9-5; Sandeep Pawar bt Devendra Krishna 9-3; Imran Yusoof bt Nagesh Kharv 9-3.
(Semi finals): Imran Yusoof bt Sandeep Pawar 9-3; Pravin Jadhav bt Amit Tambe 9-4; Mangela Gajju bt Aditya Sanghvi 9-1;gauravadia bt Bijal Modi 9-1.
Men (+45) singles (Semifinals): Neelkanth bt Vijay Kumar 9-1; Pravin Jadhav bt Ketan Bedekar 9-6;Abhijit Agnihotri w/o Raj Dubey;gauravKapadia bt ; Bijal Modi 9-1.
Men (+55) doubles (Quarterfinals): Rafik Khot/SalimKhan bt Sunil Lalchandan/Sunil Kukreja 9-8 (7-4); Mayank Dwivedi/Bharat Raghvan bt P.K.Mahaspatra/Rolu Devnani 9-6; Mayur Vasant/ NV Gajjar w/o Nirmal Narang/V.Jayalakshan.