Hard-hitting Pune lass Tanishka Deshpande, though unseeded, ended with a double crown, while Nagpur’s top seeded Rohan Gurbani lived upto his top billing by winning the title in the 2nd Maharshtra State Dr Vijay Patil Sub-junior Badminton Selection tournament, hosted by BOR (Badminton Organisation of Raigad) at DY Patil Sports Academy at Nerul here today. But for the boys under-15 singles final, rest of the other singles finals were straight games affairs.
Pune’s Tanishka Deshpande, winner of the under-15 singles and doubles crown and Nagpur’s Rohan Gurbani winner of the boys under-15 singles title boys (in the centre) alongwith other winners pose with the chief guest Dr. Priya Cholera, Director, D.Y.Patil Hospitals, Maharashtra Badminton Association Hon Secretary Sunder Shetty and BOR Hon Secretary Dr David Alvares) and other officials.
Tanishka, the moment she took the court, showed in ample measures that she did not want to waste any time and thrashed her opponent Greater Mumbai’s Rudra Rane 21-9, 21-12. Later, she teamed with Janhavi Jagtap of Mumbai Suburbs to blast the Pune pair of Ananya Phadke and Shatakshi Kinikar 21-14, 21-7.
Howeve,r the boys under-15 final was quite an engrossing affair. As Rohan could hardly find his feet as he trailed 10-14,12-17 in the opener. He did try to put some effort at this stage but it was too late as Suhanshu ended his plight by winning the game at 21-17. Rohan, however, did find his rhythm thereafter in the second as just outwitted his opponent (21-11) and ran away with the decider with ease (21-13) in about 40 minutes play.
The Mangrish Palekar- coached Skand Shanbhag from Nashik, gladden his coach’s heart by winning the singles title with a cakewalk21-15, 21-7 win over his Nashik teammate Prajjwal Sonawane (NSK). While Pune lass Tara Shah, justified her top billing by routing Greater Mumbai’s Rudra Rane 21-15, 21-7.
Results:
Girls U-15 singles (Semifinals): Rudra Rane (GM) bt Ananya Phadke (PN) 21-12, 18-21, 21-19; Tanishka Deshpande (PN) bt Janhavi Kanitkar (PN) 21-10, 21-14. (Final): Tanishka Deshpande (PN) bt Tanishka Deshpande (PN) bt21-9, 21-11.
Boys U-15 singles (Semifinals): (1) Rohan Gurbani (NGP) bt (4) Tanishq Saxena (MS) 21-11, 21-18; ; (2) Sudhanshu Bhure (NGP) bt Varun Kapur (PN) 21-17, 21-13. (Final): Rohan Gurbani (NGP) bt Sudhansahu Bhure (NG) 17-21, 21-11, 21-13.
Boys U-13 singles (Semifinals): Skand Shanbhag (NSK) bt Atharva Joshi (MS) 21-12, 21-14; Prajjwal Sonawane (NSK) bt Tejas Shinde (SNG) 21-18, 21-15. (Final): Skand Shanbhag (NSK) bt Prajjwal Sonawane ( (NSK) 21-15, 21-7.
Girls U-13 singles (Semifinals): (1) Tara Shah (PN) bt Sahnya Kulkarni (PN) 21-9, 21-15; (3) Rhucha Sawant (PN) bt (2) Hrissha Dubey (MS) 21-19, 21-19. (Final): (1) Tara Shah (PN) bt (3) Rhucha Sawant (PN) 21-12, 24-22.
Boys U-13 doubles (Final): Arya Thakore/Dhruv Thakore (PN) bt Atharva Joshi/Siddharth Bhuta (MS) 18-21, 21-13, 21-8.
Girls U-13 doubles (Final): Hrissha Dubvey/Khushi Kumari (GM) bt Riya Habbu/Sahnya Kulkarni (PN) 21-19, 20-22, 21-12.
Boys U-15 doubles (Final): Aayush Khandekar/VarunKapur (PN) bt Rahul Kane/Rohan Thool (TH) 21-9, 21-9. 21-8, 21-9.
Girls U-15 doubles (Final): Tanishka Despande(PN)/Janhavi Jagtap (MS) bt Ananya Phadke/Shatakshi Kinikar (PN) 21-14, 21-7.