The Hitavada’s seeded players Anupam Soni and Nikhil Dixit and Piyush Patil made winning starts to make it to third round of the men’s singles in the eighth edition of SJAN-Gracelands Badminton Tournament for Media Employees that got under way at Subhedar Hall on Friday.
Soni defeated Rupesh Bhaik
30-9, Dixit humbled Dharmendra Kumar 30-3 while Piyush Patil too had little difficulty ousting Shashikant Rahate 30-8.
Top seed Vijay Sant toyed with Vivek Bithale to win 30-7 and later partnering Vivek Puradbhat beat the combination of Uday Dindolkar-Mannu Bawa 30-8.
From quarter-final onwards, it will be best of three games of 21 points each. Matches continue on the second day starting at 8.30 am. Semi-finals and finals of all the categories would be held on Sunday.
At the outset, Dr Vilas Sapkal, Vice-Chancellor, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, inaugurated the tournament in presence of chief guest of opening ceremony Shekhar Jadhao, Chairman, Gracelands; Dr Dhananjay Welukar, Director, Department of Sports and Physical Education, RTMNU and Dr Yashwant Patil, Co-ordinator, Post Graduate Teaching Department, RTMNU.
SJAN member Dr Ram Thakur conducted the proceedings. Naresh Shelke, President, SJAN, made an introductory remark while Anupam Soni, convenor of the meet, proposed a vote of thanks.
Results
Men’s singles (second round): Vijay Sant bt Vivek Bithale 30-7; Piyush Patil bt Shashikant Rahate 30-8; Naresh Shelke bt Sandip Wardhane 30-13; Nikhil Dixit bt Dharmendra Kumar 30-3; Vivek Puradbhat bt Yogesh Banait 30-21; Harshad Pandharipande bt Vaibhav Ganjapure 30-10; Uday Dindolkar bt Abhishek Iyengar 30-7; Anupam Soni bt Rupesh Bhaik 30-9; Devendra Sadavarti bt Balmukund Kadwe 30-22; Madhav Soman bt BK Khwaja 30-19.
Men’s doubles (second round): Vijay Sant-Vivek Puradbhat bt Uday Dindolkar-Mannu Bawa 30-8; Naresh Shelke-Rajesh Vyavhare bt Bithale-Shivhare 30-13; Ashish Jain-Vilas Tijare bt Iyengar-Wardhane 30-6; Suhas Nayse-Madhav Soman bt Khwaja-Kadwe 30-6.
Women’s singles: Shrishti Gupta bt Payal Gwalani 30-0; Chaitali Deshmukh bt Vani Banthia 30-23.
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