G D Birla Badminton report

Top seed Daga enters 45+ semis

Top seed Sailesh Daga marched into the semi-finals of the men’s 45+ singles, scoring a straightforward 15-9, 15-4 victory over Nikhil Chari in 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 the semis, Daga will take on Narendra Sawardekar, who got a walkover in the quarter-finals , The other semi-final will pit Justin Joseph  versus Sandeep Mohan. Justin continued his fine form to get the better of Dhirruj D 15-10, 15-6, while Sandeep Dileep R Matta 15-4, 15-6.

The 80+ mixed doubles saw top seeds Ayaz Bilawala and  Naheed Divecha move into the quarter-finals with a dominating 30-19 victory over Purnima Deshmukh/J P Chowdhary.

In the singles for professionals, NSCI’s Vikrant Kushwaha made progress into the semi-finals with a 15-4, 15-10 victory over Sachin Baste.

Results:

Professional Men’s Singles Quarter Finals

Vikrant Kushwaha bt Sachin Baste – 15-14, 15-10; Rajan Samant bt Sanjay Golbare – 15-9, 15-9; Premal Mankar bt Anand Mhaskar – 15-11, 15-9; Akshay Kadam bt Chetan Bhandarkar – 15-11, 15-9.

Professional Men’s Doubles Quarter Finals

Kalpesh Padekar/Sanjay Golbare bt Bharat Ganke/Sailesh Joshi – 15-8, 15-11; Anand Maskar/Rishi Kushwaha bt Premal Mankar/Rajan Samant – 13-15, 15-13, 15-9; Ajay Mali/Chetan Bandekar bt Rahul Bhuvad/Santosh Pawar – 15-10, 15-12; Dinesh Golbare/Manoj Nachnekar bt Akshay Kadam/Sachin Baste – 15-14, 12-15, 15-10.

Men’s Single 45 Quarters Finals

Sailesh Daga bt Nikhil Chari – 15-9, 15-4; Justin Joseph bt Dhirruj – 15-10, 15-6; Sandeep Mohan bt Dilip Ramkrishan Matta – 15-4, 15-6.

Men’s Doubles 45 Round 32

Dushyant Bhatia/Rajeev Karia bt Faisal Siddique/Naval Bir Kumar – 30-28.

XD 80+ Round 16

Ayaz Bilawala/Naheed Divecha bt Purnima Deshmukh/J P Chowdary 30 -19; Hamir Desai/Shalini Kandhari bt Rajendrasinh/Kushboo Sagar – 30-19; Rajesh D’souza/Rupali Gupta bt Payal Mehta/Darshit Parmar – 30-17; Russell Drego/Sareeta Jetwani bt Calvin Fernandes/Paromita Phulwaria – 30-15 ; Sushant Shetty/Nikita Thakur bt Mahesh Chhabria/Harpreet Kaur – 30-19; Sushant Niddodi/Sejal Sheth bt Justin Joseph/Nilakshi Sinha – 30-8.

Mixed Combination 85+ ROUND 32

Rajesh D’souza/Sushant Niddodi bt Ashoo Khemka/Sudhir Nehwal - 30-13; Kushal Shah/Viren Shah bt Kamal Belal/Rupesh Patel – 30-20; Hamir Desai/Nazim Dawoodani bt Kailash Lalvani/Raja Seetharaman – 30-26; Kousambi Roy/Vishal Manchanda bt Kershi Pavri/Russell Drego – 30-28; Anis Badami/Sushant Shetty bt Prashant Mehta/Sanjay Arya – 30-14; Anand Vithalkar/Vivek Shah bt Johan Daruwala/Vivek Burman – 30-15; Abhiraj Gandhi/Fabian bt Ginishkumar P/K Sethuraman – 30-20; Faisal Siddique/ Rajan bt Parthasarathi Patnaik/Tushar Kulkarni – 30-19; Mitesh Arora/Prashant Shah bt Connolly Lewis/Ranjeet Kumar – 30-18; Amrish Ved/Rishi Bansal bt Mayur Bhojwani/Sunil Seth – 30-16; Chandrashekhar Pitre/Vijesh Nair bt Kaushik Vartak/Sachin Bharati – 30-25; Deepak Shete/Manish Kumar bt Dhirendra Maurya/Vinod Jain – 30-24; Jinesh Mehta/Sachin Mehta bt Suraj Awatramani/Tejas Ubale 30-29; Nitesh Shah/ Sachin Wani bt Maulik Jasapara/Viral Mehta – 30-28; PM Balakrishna/Siddharth Gupta bt Bhairav Desai/Rajmohan Amonkar - 30-4.

Mixed Combination 110+ Quarter Finals

Gautam Ashra/Sailesh Daga bt Chetan Vora/Yogesh Sanghavi – 15-11, 16-14; Bibhash Chatrjee/Rajesh D’souza bt Abhay Naik/Anoop Shukla – 15-10’15-6; Ashok Sharma/Mahesh Chhabria bt Rajendra Naik/Suraj Awatramani – 15-8, 12-15, 15-12; Amol Shah/Naval Bir Kumar bt Deepak Kumar Damania/Hemant Arolkar – 15-4, 15-8.

G D Birla Team RR1

Vanita Samaj bt PJ Hindu Gymkhana – 3-0; All Indian Balkanji Bari bt CCI B – 3-0; NSCI B bt MCA Kandivali B – 2-1; MCF B bt Jolly Gymkhana B – 2-1; Matoshree bt SCN Club 3-0.

G D Birla Team RR2

NSCI B bt Jolly Gymkhana B – 3-0; MCF B bt MCA Kandivali B – 2-1; Goregaon Sports Club bt Matoshree -3-0; Bombay Gymkhana A bt Hindu Gymkhana – 3-0; Andheri Sports Complex bt CCI B – 3-0.

G D Birla Team RR3

Goregaon Sports Club bt SCN Club – 3-0; NSCI B bt MCF B – 2-1; MCA Kandivali B bt Jolly Gymkhana B – 2-1; Bombay Gymkhana bt Vanita Samaj – 3-0; Andheri Sports Complex bt All Indian Balkanji Bari- 2-1.