DEFENDING champion Vijay Sant of Loksatta-Indian Express left no stone unturned in this year’s meet too as he pocketed men’s singles and doubles titles of eighth edition of SJAN-Gracelands Badminton Tournament for Media Employees at Subhedar Hall on Sunday.
In an exciting men’s doubles final, Vijay Sant-Vivek Puradbhat beat Madhav Soman-Suhas Nayse of Times of India (TOI) 19-21, 22-20, 21-9. Both the pairs displayed excellent skills in the entire match.
Soman-Nayse played smartly and pocketed the tightly-finished first game.
The second game turned out to be dramatic one, having being down by a game, Sant and Puradbhat were matching standards with Nayse-Soman. At 20-19, Nayse-Soman were on match point. But they faltered. Sant-Puradbhat crawled and levelled the score. With some brilliant show they won the second game to take the match to the third game.
The decider happened to be a walk in the park for Sant-Puradbhat. They comfortably knocked Nayse-Soman out to win doubles title.
Earlier in the singles final, Sant recorded comfortable win over Ashish Jain of Lokmat 21-13, 21-6.
Jain was no match to Sant from the word go. Sant showcased some attacking smashes to take the first game.
In the second game, Jain looked under pressure. Sant took the
advantage of the situation and thrashed him to emerge victorious in singles category for second straight year.
The women’s single final was fought between Steffi Joseph and Shrishti Gupta both from TOI, where former won 30-12.
Earlier in semi-finals of men’s singles, Sant beat Suhas Nayse 21-13, 21-9.
In other semis, Jain beat TOI’s Harshad Pandharipande 21-4, 21-8 to make it to the final.
In men’s doubles, Nayse- Soman beat Sunil Warrier-Manish Sakharwade (TOI) 21-14, 21-12.
In second semis, Sant-Puradbhat beat Jain-Vilas Tijare 21-13, 21-13 to surge into the final.
In women’s singles Steffi beat Meenakshi Menon of Lokmat 30-15 and in the other semis Shrishti Gupta beat Aparna Nair 30-5.
Rakesh Kochhar, Director, Guru Nanak Institute of Engineering and Technology, and Dr Yashwant Patil, Co-ordinator, Post Graduate Teaching Department of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, distributed the prizes.
SJAN president Naresh Shelke conducted the proceedings.
Dr Ram Thakur made introductory remarks while secretary Kishor Bagde proposed a vote of thanks.
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