G D Birla Badminton report

Joseph wins tough match; easy start for Chari

Nikhil Chari got off to a good start in the men’s 45+ singles, outplaying Pankaj Sampat 30-13 in A round of 16 match of the 28th G D Birla Memorial Masters Inter-Club Badminton Tournament, hosted by Badminton 45 and Bombay Gymkhana, at their courts, here, on Thursday. In other close matches, Justin Joseph had to stave off a strong fight from Sanju Jain before winning 30-29, while Dilip Matta got the better of Nimish Shah 30-27. The pairing of Faisal Siddique and Rajana scored a facile 30-4 victory over Nischaay Narinder and Vishwas Attawar in a first round match of the men’s combination doubles 80+. In other matchs, Connolly Lewis and Ranjeet Kumar got the better of Manmohan Amonkar and Rajiv Basrur 30-18, while Kershi Pavri and Russell Drego had a fight on their hands before winning 30-22 against Jimmy Jatania and Sanju Jain In a round of 16 men’s match for professionals Vikrant Kushwaha got the better of Ajay Mali   30-24. Results: Nikhil Chari bt Pankaj Sampat – 30-13; Justin Joseph bt Sanju Jani – 30-29; Dilip Ramkrishna Matta bt Nimish Shah - 30-27; Mens Combination 85+ Round 64 Faisal Siddique/Rajan bt Nischaay Narinder/Vishwas Attawar – 30-4; Connolly Lewis/Ranjeet Kumar bt Manmohan Amonkar/Rajiv Basrur- 30-18; Dhirendra Maurya/Vinod Jain bt Condrad Forte/Tushar Mangal 30-2 Kershi Pavri/Russell Drego bt Jimmy Jatania/Sanju Jani 30-22. Mens Combination 110+ Round16 Abhay Naik/ Anoop Shukla bt Satinder Malhotra/Vipool Patel – 30-23; Chetan Vora/YogeshSanghavi bt  A V Suni/Sameer Patankar – 30-11; Bibhash Chaterjee/Rajesh D’souza bt Pankaj Gandhi/Sanjay Salunke – 30-10; Ashok Sharma/Mahesh Chhabria bt Bhaskar Reddy/Sharad Kadam – 30-24; Rajendra Naik/Suraj Awatramani bt Ajit Nair/Pm Balakrishna – 30-24; Amol Shah/Naval Bir Kumar bt George Varghese/Ranjeet Kothari – 30-18. Mised Combination 80+ Round 32 Connolly Lewis/Nidhi Hosangady bt Ravi Annapurne/Kiran Shete – 30-27; Payal Mehta/Darshit Parmar bt Rishi Bansal/Dimple Sighania – 30-18; Mahesh Chhabria/Harpreet Kaur bt Priya SAmbedkar/Kiran Dehare – 30-23. GD Birla Team RR1 Country club bt ASC Shuttlers – 3-0; Jolly Gymkhana bt MCA Bandra – 3-0; MCF A bt MCA Kandivali A – 2-1;  NSCI A bt Bombay Gymkhana B 3-0. GD Birla Team RR2 CCI A bt Country Club – 3-0; Catholic Gymkhana bt Chembur Gymkhana – 2-1; Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana bt Jolly Gymkhana A – 2-1. GD Birla Team RR3 MCF A bt NSCI A – 2-1; MCA Kandivali A bt Bombay Gymkhana B – 2-1; Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana bt  MCA Bandra 3-0; CCI A bt ASC Shuttlers – 2-1. Professional Men’s singles Round 32 Rahul Bhuvad bt Chandrakumar Yadav - 30-16 (1 set); Rajesh Jadhav bt Sujit Jadhav – 30-16 (1 set); Ravi Annapurna  bt Ganesh More – 30-12 (1 set); Kalpesh Padekar bt Santosh Pawar – 30-25 (1 set); Ajay Mali bt Rishi Kushwaha – 30-18 (1 set); Akshay Kadam bt Sailesh Joshi – 30-9 (1 set) Professional Men’s singles Round 16 Rajan Saman bt Vishwas Jadhav – 30-11 (1 set); Vikrant Kushwaha bt Ajay Mali – 30-24 (1 set); Anand Mhaskar bt rajesh Jadhav – 30-14 (1 set); Sachin Baste bt Rahul Bhuvad – 30-25 (set 1); Sanjay Golbare bt Bharat Ganke – 30-9 (1 set); Premal Manekar bt Ravi Annapurne 30-16 (1 set); Akshay Kadam bt Manoj Nachnekar 30-21 (1 set)