Except for losing the team championship finals to West Bengal in Women’s 59+category, Maharashtra Women dominated in 39+ and 49+combined category, winning Gold and a huge trophy. Though we saw some resistance coming from Rajasthan and Telangana women in earlier rounds of team events, Maharashtra women were seen fighting in the finals among themselves in the finals. Maharashtra men also after winning the 49+ title earlier, defeating favourites West Bengal, went on to claim the Men’s 39+ and Men’s 59+ titles, after defeating their second team players.
Maharashtra 39 &49+ Women’s team with Gold medals & Trophy .L to R: Trupti Machve, Sivapriya Naik, Shravani Dhapre & Sushma Mogare.
Kiran Salian, who invited all the attention on the penultimate day, went on to bag total four Gold medals in team and other three individual events, namely Men’s 49+ Singles, Men’s 49+ doubles( with Sameer Bhate) and Mixed 49+ doubles with Bibiana Lopes. This was a splendid show by Kiran, who found this opportunity to display his talent. Though our home team players put up a good show also in the individual events, besides legends Abu Rizwan, Debashish Saha, and Mantu Murmu( all from West Bengal) there were other visitors who performed very well. Indronil Chhattopadhyay and U.N. Ramkumar ( West Bengal) won the Men’s doubles 39+ title, while Sushila Choudhary and Divya Gautam from Rajasthan lifted the Women’s doubles 49+ title.
Kiran Salian won four Gold medals in Men’s 49+
The hard work put in by Shravani Dhapre , Jt.Hon. Secretary of IMPTTA is to be admired. Besides working hard in the organising committee from morning till night, this senior stenographer from BEST Undertaking, managed to play in this competition in 49+ events and also won few medals. Her team along with Sivapriya Naik, Trupti Machave and Sushma Mogare( LIC) won Gold medal in Women’s 49+ team event. Two other active members in the organising committee, namely Swati Agharkar and Sadiya Vanjara also bagged few medals.
Snehal Bhole- Gold medal in Women’s 39+
The performances of Moonmoon Mukherjee, who won Gold in the Women’s 49+ singles and Snehal Bhole who also won Gold in Women’s 39+ Singles for Maharashtra, also need a special mention. Sushma who works for LIC India lost narrowly 2-3 to Moonmoon Mukherjee in the finals of Women’s 49+, but bagged Gold in 40+ Women’s doubles, partnering Gayatri Mohan. Sushma was also member of Women’s 39+ 49 + combined women’s team, which won Gold.
Moonmoon Mukherjee -Gold medal in Women’s 49+
Results of all individual finals played on the final day, are below:
Men’s 39+ Singles: Winner: Abu Rizwan ( W.B) , Runner-up: Indronil Chattopadhayay( W.B.)
Women’s 39+ Singles: Snehal Bhole ( Mah); R-Up: Vinita Shukla ( Mah)
Men’s 39+ Doubles: Winners: Indronil Chattopadhayay & UN Ramkumar( W.B) ; R-up : Onkar Jog & Hormaz Pithawala.
Women’s 49+ Doubles : Gayatri Mohan & Sushma Mogare( Mah) ; R-up : Suhasini M & Sonal Ashrani (Telangana)
Mixed Doubles 39+ : Winners: Swati Thube & Kedar Kasbekar( Mah); R-up : Sadiya Vanjara & Rupesh Gharat ( Mah) .
Men’s Singles 49+ : Winner : Kiran Salian(Mah); R-up : Ravi Chopra( Mah)
Women’s Singles 49+ : Winner : Moonmoon Mukherjee (Mah); R-Up: Sushama Mogre( Mah).
Men’s Doubles 49+ : Winners: Kiran Salian & Sameer Bhate( Mah); R-Up: Naveen Salian & Rajesh Singh
Women’s Doubles 49+ : Winners: Sushila Choudhary & Divya Gautam( Rajasthan) ; R-up : Vaishali Malvankar & Ujwala Chandramore( Mah).
Mixed Doubles 49+ : Winners : Bibiana Lopes & Kiran Salian( Mah); R-Up: Trupti Machave & Naveen Salian( Mah) .
Men’s 59+ Singles : Winner: Debashish Saha ( W.B.); R-Up: Pradeep Gupta ( Mah)
Women’s 59+ Singles : Winner : Mantu Murmu( W.B.); R-up : Karabi Maity
( W.B.)
Men’s 59+ Doubles : Winners : Atul Deshmukh & Jogesh Motwani( Mah); R-Up: Debashish Saha & Mohd. Abbas ( W.B.).
Women’s 59+ Doubles : Winners : Mantu Murmu & Karabi maity ( W.B.) R-Up : Swati Agharkar & Manisha Pradhan ( Mah) .
Mixed Doubles 59+ : Swati Agharkar & Purshottam Markad ( Mah); R-Up : Prashant Machave & Jayashree Nair ( Mah)