Mihir Palande and Malhar Kulkarni registered contrasting victories in men’s singles first round matches of the 2nd Maharashtra Senior State Selection Badminton Tournament 2016 and played at the Goregaon Sports Club on Wednesday.
Mihir Palande
While Palande took the easy route by demolishing Nikhil Pethkar 21-3, 21-2, Kulkarni after dropping the opening game produced a solid fight back and won the next two games to put it across Apoorva Javadekar, winning at 13-21, 21-17, 21-16.
Harsh Sheth also faced quite a stiff challenge from Bhavik Behrani before pulling through in straight games at 21-11, 23-21 to also advance to the second round.
Results – Men’s singles (Round 1): Harsh Sheth bt Bhavik Behrani 21-11, 23-21; Ajeet Kumbhar bt Sudhanshu Chaturvedi 21-12, 21-14; Likhit Bangera bt Umakant Sarge 21-19, 21-14; Wasim Shaikh bt Saif Vakani 21-14, 21-13; Vinayak Dandavate bt Amit Gupta 21-6 21-9; Rushikesh Hole bt Sarang Bera 21-5, 21-10; Kedar Palak bt Srikanth Nandakumar 21-10, 21-10; Mihir Palande bt Nikhil Pethkar 21-3, 21-2; Akshat Patil bt Shubham Puri 21-4, 21-9; Alok Jaju bt Avishek Roy Chowdhury 21-10, 21-8; Vivek Kumar bt Daras Nadar 21-18 17-21 21-15; Sukrut Baporikar bt Raju Ovhal 21-10, 21-18; Narendra Gogawale bt Akshay Gangan 21-19, 21-13; Malhar Kulkarni bt Apoorva Javadekar 13-21, 21-17, 21-16; Akshan Shetty bt Atharv Chavan 21-16, 21-14; Satyajeet Jagdhane bt Amol Hindlekar 21-7 21-8; Kunal Dasarwar bt Shrinath Gopalakrishnan 21-7, 21-5.