TOP seeds sailed smoothly on the opening day of the 4th Tirupati Urban Co-operative Bank Limited Carrom Tournament for Media Employees organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur at Hotel Chidambara.
Defending champion Pankaj Najpande had an easy day as he got a first round walk over against Faisul Qamar. The Hitavada’s Paritosh Pramanik, seeded second, Ramesh Marulkar, Anil Futane, Kartik Lokhande, Anjaya Anaparthi, Sudhir Delikar registered easy victories over their respective rivals. In a marathon match, The Hitavada’s Anupam Soni went down fighting to Times of India’s Rahul Soman. The match lasted for two hours and twenty minutes.
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Sameer Meghe, Chairman, Tirupati Urban Co-operative Bank Limited Sandip Joshi, NMC Standing Committee chairman was the guest of honour.
SJAN president Dr Ram Thakur made introductory remark. Vice-president Naresh Shelke conducted the proceedings while joint secretary Kishor Bagde proposed a vote of thanks.
Results:
Men’s singles (2nd round): Anil Futane (The Hitavada) bt Deepak Labde (Lokmat) 21-0, 6-0; Paritosh Pramanik (The Hitavada) bt Ramesh Pethe (Lokmat) 20-0, 19-5; Chittaranjan Nagdevte (Lokmat) bt Sudhanshu Bisen (The Hitavada) 21-0, 21-0; Ramesh Marulkar (The Hitavada) bt S Khatre (Punyanagari) 21-0, 18-0; Sandip Gadge (Tarun Bharat) bt Shekhar Mahule (Lokmat) 17-0, 13-6; Kartik Lokhande (The Hitavada) bt Sanjay Lokhande (Tarun Bharat) 21-0, 20-0; Rahul Soman (ToI) bt Anupam Soni (The Hitavada) 10-6, 5-6, 11-4; Sudhir Delikar (The Hitavada) bt Chandu Dasarwar (Lokmat) 20-0, 18-0; Sudarshan Sakharkar (ToI) bt Vilas Tijare (Lokmat) 7-4, 12-4; Jeevak Gajbhiye (Lokshahi Varta) bt Dharmendra Kumar (ToI) 15-0, 7-8, 11-6, Ashwajit Moon (Punyanagari) got walk over against Anand Deshpande (Sakal), Pankaj Najpande (Lokmat) got walkover against Faizul Qumar (ToI).
Team championship (pre-quarters): Lokmat ‘B’ bt The Hitavada ‘C’ 2-0 (Shekhar Mahule bt Pankaj Kumar 19-0, 21-0; Deepak Labde-Ramesh Pethe bt Anjaya Anaparthi-Dheeraj Kumar 10-3).
ToI ‘A’ bt Lokshahi Varta 2-1 (Madhav Soman lost to Jeevak Gajbhiye 4-20, 7-13; Rahul Soman-Dharmendra bt Abhijit Joshi-Rajesh Praykar 12-0, 8-7, 7-7 (1-0) tie breaker; Dharmendra Kumar bt Rajesh Praykar 4-13, 18-0, 8-4).
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