The chain of upsets continued in the Veterans Singles event of the MCF-4 Star All -Mumbai ranking tournament, hosted by Mandpeshwar Civic Federation at their sports complex at Borivali West. After witnessing some well contested matches and upsets yesterday evening, the Veterans event saw few more surprise victories late in the evening. Ravi Shah knocked our third seeded Sameer Bhate, while Deepak Thukral eliminated 8th seeded Harish Shirsat to enter pre quarter finals today at 12 noon.
Ravi Shah’s victory is to be admired, as he was 7-10 down in the decider. But, Ravi proved his fighting spirit saving three match points to win the game and match. Comparatively, Deepak Thukral had somewhat easy sailing against 8th seed Shirsat, as he conceded only one game, to move into Pre quarter finals, where he takes on Naveen Salian. In other Pre quarter final battles seventh seeded Dinkar Selarka takes on Tejas Naik, while 2nd seeded Prakash kelkar will face the challenge from Abhay Mehta. Vivek Bhargava who toppled Ravi Chopra in the 3rd round, will meet Sarosh Shroff , while Gill Gurcharan Singh will take on Ppercy Mehta in the pre quarter finals to be played today afternoon. today.