Friday, February 27, 2009

Badminton meet gets under way

Girish Pandav (L), treasurer, Sanmarg Shikshan Sanstha plays
a shot to inaugurate the badminton meet. SJAN president
Dr Ram Thakur looks on. (Pic The Hitavada)


The 5th annual badminton tournament for media employees of the city which got under way at the Nagpur University’s Subhedar Hall, off Amravati Road on Friday.
The tournament is being organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) in association with the Post Graduate Teaching Department of Physical Education (PGTDPE), Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University.
In the early encounters all the seeded players moved up without any tough fight.


Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Girish Pandav, treasurer, Sanmarg Shikshan Sanstha. Co-ordinator of Post Graduate Teaching Department for Physical Education, Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University Dr Yeshwant Patil was also present on the dais.
SJAN treasurer Anupam conducted the proceedings. President Dr Ram Thakur made the introductory remarks while member Aditi Deodhar proposed a vote of thanks.
Results: Men’s singles (2nd round): Vilas Tijare (Lokmat) bt Vivek Puradbhat (Loksatta) 21-8, Ranjeet Deshmukh (ToI) bt Manoj Joshi 21-9, Vijay Sant (Loksatta) bt Amit Sampat (ToI) 21-12, Harshad Pandharipande (ToI) bt Madhav Soman (ToI) 21-13, Suhas Nayse (ToI) bt Vikram Harkare (Loksatta) 21-1, Piyush Patil (Loksatta) bt Bagish Jha (Lokmat Times) 21-4, Manish Sakharwade (ToI) bt Manoj Mule (Sakal) 21-11, Balaji Ayyar bt Charudutta Kahu (Loksatta) 21-11, Hitesh Limbachia (The Hitavada) bt Daniel Warrior (Saam TV) 21-7, Ashish Jain (Lokmat) bt Nilanjan Bhowmik (ToI) 21-8, Fakruddin (ToI) bt Nitin Totewar (Loksatta) 21-7, Anupam Soni (The Hitavada) bt Devendra Sadavarti (Loksatta) 21-14, Nikhil Dixit (The Hitavada) bt Uday Dindolkar (Loksatta) 21-13.
Men’s doubles (1st round): Naresh Shelke-Manoj Mule (Sakal) bt Amol Deokar-Ankit Ghutke (The Hitavada) 21-9, Nikhil Gotmare-Rajesh Vyavhare (Sakal) bt Rajesh Patil- Ram Bhakre (Loksatta) 21-10, Amit Khodke-Vilas Tijare (Lokmat) bt Samaresh Acharya-Rakesh Roshan (ToI) 21-16, Charudutta Kahu-Vikram Harkare (Loksatta) bt Pankaj Ganorkar-Pawan (Tarun Bharat) 21-18, Ravikant Sane-Manoj Joshi (Loksatta) bt Vikas Barokar-Raj Sharma (Tarun Bharat) 21-5.
Women’s singles (1st round): Rakhi Chavan (Loksatta) bt Farina Salim 21-13, Tanvir Sheikh (The Hitavada) bt Ananya Roy (Lokmat Times) 21-10, Nisha Kar (Lokmat Times) bt Aditi Deodhar (The Hitavada) 21-16.

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