In an interesting encounter of Women’s 45 + first round match Wrishalee Patil of Jalgaon fought back after losing the first game to overcome Unaiza Punjabi of Mumbai Suburban 20-22, 21-18, 21-14 to also advance to the second round in the Maharashtra Badminton Association Senior State Veteran’s Championship – 2018 organised and co-hosted by Badminton 45 and Bombay Gymkhana and played at the gymkhana’s badminton courts on Wednesday.
However, Top seed Naheed Divecha of Greater Mumbai smoothly sailed into women’s singles (45+) second round Divecha tamed Arati Patwardhan of Pune 21-5, 21-4 in a first round encounter. Meanwhile, second seed Deepali Joshi of Pune did not have to break into a sweat as she received a walkover from Archana Gore of Sindhudurg District who failed to report for her match.
Avadhut Joshi
In men’s (55+) singles action, Pune shuttler Avadhut Joshi showed good all-round play to put it across Budhiras Gurung of Mumbai Suburban winning in straight games at 21-11, 21-16.
In another match, Satara’s Sanjay Bhagwat ground out a hard fought win against Mumbai Suburban Satinder Malhotra winning in three games at 21-14, 16-21, 21-11.
Results –
Women’s singles (45+) – 1st round: 1-Naheed Divecha (Gr. Mum) beat Arati Patwardhan (Pune) 21-5, 21-4; Nilakshi Sinha (Gr. Mum) beat Sangeeta Jadhav (Gr. Mum) 26-24, 21-13; Sanjeevani Mahajan (Pune) beat Shoba Prakash (Mum Sub) 21-5, 21-9; Vasumathi Sethuraman (Mum Sub) beat Rajeshree Hatwar (Nagpur) 21-10, 21-14; Kavita Arun (Gr. Mum) beat Ushma Mehta (Mum Sub) 21-19, 21-14; Wrishalee Patil (Jalgaon) beat Unaiza Punjabi (Mum Sub) 20-22, 21-18, 21-14; Ajita Ravindran (Mum Sub) beat Preetam Nadkarni (Thane) 21-4, 21-5.
Men’s singles (55+) – 1st round: Avadhut Joshi (Pune) beat Budhiras Gurung (Mum Sub) 21-11, 21-16; Sanjay Bhagwat (Satara) beat Satinder Malhotra (Mum Sub) 21-14, 16-21, 21-11.
Men’s singles (50+) – 1st round: Uday Gaikwad (Thane) beat Narendra Hulsure (Mum Sub) 21-23, 21-17, 21-11; Sanjay Chaudhari (Amravati) beat Godwin Alex (Thane) 21-9, 21-18; Sarma Nemani (Thane) beat Vipool Patel (Mum Sub) 21-15, 21-12; Sanjay Dhakite (Raigad) beat Anand Vithalkar (Mum Sub) 21-1621-9.
Men’s singles (45+) – 1st round: Rakesh Raghavan beat Akash Damniwala 21-16, 21-16; Swaraj Dhal beat Narendra Sawardekar 21-13, 21-14.
Men’s singles (40+) – 1st round: George Koshy (Mum Sub) beat Vishal Rode (Mum Sub) 21-19, 21-14; Rishi Bansal beat Nitin Mohd 22-20, 21-14; Hasprit Singh Sahani (Pune) beat Shrikant Iyer (Thane) 21-10, 21-10; Yogesh Sahasrabuddhe (Pune) beat Manoj Hasani (Pune) 21-16, 21-12; Satyajit Tardalkar (Pune) beat Yatin Lodha (Pune) 21-6, 21-12; Swaraj Dhal (Mum Sub) beat Narendra Sawardekar (Gr. Mum) 21-13, 21-14.
Men’s singles (35+) – 1st round: Sarvesh Agrawal (Amravati) beat Raghav Karol (Gr. Mum) 18-21, 21-19, 21-13; Connolly Lewis (Mum Sub) beat Ramesh Debnath (Thane) 21-19, 21-12; Sachin Mankar (Pune) beat Asutosh Lenka (Raigad) 21-10, 21-6; Sushanth Shetty (Mum Sub) beat Amit Sanap (Pune) 20-22, 21-6, 21-7; Sandeeb Kurian (Thane) beat Bibhudatta Nayak (Mum Sub) 21-6, 21-7; Rustam Warden (Gr. Mum) beat Sharan Masand (Mum Sub) 21-7, 21-9.