Photo Caption: Namita Mehta in action during final of WS 45

Namita upsets top seed for title

Namita Mehta, representing MCA, BKC, turned the tables on top seed Ajita Ravindran Vijayakar of New Badminton Association, winning the women’s singles 45 title with a straight forward 21-14, 21-11 victory when action resumed on Thursday in the G D Birla Memorial Masters Badminton Tournament, organized by Badminton 45, managed by Badminton Gurukul and hosted by Bombay Gymkhana.

Top seed Manoj Nachanekar and second seed Premal Mankar stayed on course to go the distance, scoring one sided victories in the Round of 16 singles encounters. While Nachanekar got the better of Aatish Annapurne 30-14, Mankar defeated Sanket More 30-13.

Results:

WS 45 Final: Namita Mehta bt Vijayakar Ajita Ravindran[1] - 21-14, 21-11.

Professional Singles (Round of 16): Manoj Nachanekar[1] bt Aatish Ravindra Annapurne  - (30-14); Premal Mankar[2] Sanket More - (30-13); Chetan Bandarkar[3] bt Uday Yadav - (30-17); Rajan Samant[4]bt  Santosh Pawar - (30-11); Shubham More bt Rajesh Jadhav - (30-15)

Mens Combination 110+ (R16): Rajesh D'souza/Shailesh Daga[2] bt Anil Pandey/Vasudevan - (30-11); Maneck Daruwala/Radharamanan bt P M Balakrishna/Sunil Wagh - (30-27); Gautam Ashra/Gautam Laud bt Dilip Agrawal/Kumar Iyer – (30-22); Ajit Bhide/Chandrashekhar Pitre Kumar bt Hinduja/Murli Subramaniam – (30-18).