Loksatta's Vijay Sant wins twin titles

Loksatta's Vijay Sant avenged his last year's defeat as he annexed men's singles as well as doubles title in the 10th badminton tournament for media employees organised by Sports Journalists' Association of Nagpur. The tournament was sponsored by Vatsalya Group.
In the singles final, Sant defeated defending champion Ashish Jain 21-18, 17-21, 21-15 and later paired with veteran Vivek Puradbhat to clinch the men's doubles title. The Loksatta duo defeated Lokmat Group's Ashish Jain and Alshar Khan 21-8, 21-19.
The women's singles title went to Manjusha Joshi who remained unbeaten. In her last and final match, she defeated Aparna Nair 21-9.
NDBA president Kundatai Vijaykar was the chief guest of prize distribution function. Amit Bajaj, Vice President, NDBA, was the guest of honour. Vice-chancellor of RTM Nagpur University Dr Vilas Sapkal presided over the function. SJAN president Dr Ram Thakur conducted the proceedings and proposed a vote of thanks.
RESULTS:
Men’s singles semis: Vijay Sant (Loksatta) bt Suhas Nayse (TOI) 21-7, 21-11; Ashish Jain (Lokmat) bt Madhav Soman (TOI) 21-9, 21-7.
Final:Vijay Sant bt Ashish Jain 21-18, 17-21, 21-15.
Men’s doubles semis: Ashish Jain-Alshar Khan (Lokmat) bt S-2 Sunil Warrier-Manish Sakharwade 21-6, 17-21, 21-15.
Vijay Sant-Vivek Puradbhat (Loksatta) bt S-1 Suhas Nayse-Madhav Soman (TOI) 21-15, 21-17.
Final: Vijay Sant-Vivek Puradbhat (Loksatta) bt Ashish Jain-Alshar Khan (Lokmat) 21-8, 21-19
Women’s final: Manjusha Joshi (MT) bt Aparna Nair 21-9.

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SJAN memebers with Kidambi Srikanth

Defending champion Lokmat's Jain enters semis

Defending champion Ashish Jain of Lokmat Group moved into the singles as well as doubles semi-finals of the 10th badminton tournament for mediapersons organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur and sponsored by Vatsalya Group.
The tournament is under way at Subhedar Hall, off Amravati Road.
Also joining him in the singles semis are The Times of India’s Madhav Soman, Suhas Nayse and Loksatta’s Vijay Sant.
While Jain defeated Loksatta’s Vivek Puradbhat 21-3, 21-8, Soman got the better of Ranjit Deshmukh 21-11, 21-17. Nayse ousted Subodh Ratnaparkhi 21-6, 21-6 and Sant outplayed Sujan Masid 21-4, 21-3.
The prize distribution function will be held on Saturday at 11.30. Chairman of Vatsalya Group Praful Gadge will be the chief guest on the occasion. Vice-chancellor of RTM Nagpur University Dr Vilas Sapkal will preside over the function. NDBA president Kundatai Vijaykar will be the guest of honour.
Results
Men’s singles (quarters): Ashish Jain (Lokmat) bt Vivek Puradbhat (Loksatta) 21-3, 21-8; Madhav Soman (TOI) bt Ranjit Deshmukh (TOI) 21-11, 21-17; Suhas Nayse (TOI) bt Subodh Ratnaparkhi (TOI) 21-6, 21-6; Vijay Sant (Loksatta) bt Sujan Masid (Dainik Bhaskar) 21-4, 21-3.
Doubles (quarters): Suhas Nayse-Madhav Soni (TOI) bt Abhishek Ayengar-Kailash Kukreja (TOI) 21-10, 21-7; Vijay Sant-Vivek Puradbhat (Loksatta) bt Vilas Tijare-Avishkar Deshmukh (Lokmat) 21-8, 21-4; Ashish Jain-Alshar Khan (Lokmat) bt Ranjeet Deshmukh-Abhishek Choudhary (TOI) 21-19, 21-12 ; Sunil Warrier-Manish Sakharwade  (TOI) bt Amit Sampat-Anjaya Anaparthi (TOI) 21-3, 21-10.
Women singles: Manjusha Joshi of Maharashtra entered final by wining four league matches. 
Semis line up
Singles: Ashish Jain vs Madhav Soman; Suhas Nayse-vs Vijay Sant.
Doubles: Suhas Nayse-Madhav Soman vs Vijay Sant-Vivek Puradbhat; Ashish Jain-Alshar Khan vs Sunil Warrier-Manish Sakharwade.

 Suhas Nayse of Times of India

 Vijay Sant (L) and Vivek Puradbhat of Loksatta

 Vijay Sant

 Defending Champion Ashish Jain of Lokmat Group

 Vijay Sant of Loksatta

 Vilas Tijare of Lokmat

 Alshar Khan of Lokmat Times

  Defending Champion Ashish Jain of Lokmat Group

Madhav Soman of Times of India

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Badminton publicity Day 1

 

Lokmat

   The Hitavada 

 Lokmat Samachar

Lokmat Times

 Lokshahi Varta

Sakal

 Times of India

Times of India

Badminton meet for media employees gets under way

Vatsalya-SJAN 10th Badminton Tournament for Media Employees

The 10th edition of Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur’s badminton tournament for media employees got under way on Thursday morning at Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University’s Subhedar Hall.
The tournament is sponsored by Vatsalya Group. India no 1 shuttler Kidambi Shrikanth inaugurated the tournament. Chairman of Vatsalya Group Praful Gadge, chairman of board of physical education of RTMNU Dr Babanrao Taywade, Nagpur District Badminton Association secretary Mangesh Kashikar shared the dais. SJAN president Dr Ram Thakur conducted the proceedings. Secretary Kishor Bagde made introductory remarks while treasurer Suhas Nayse proposed a vote of thanks.
Prominent amongst those present on the occasion were coordinator of PGTD Physical Education Dr Sanjay Choudhary, T Thomas, Kiran Makode, Jayendra Dhole, Gurdeep Singh Arora and others.
Results: Men’s singles: Round 2: Ashish Jain (Lokmat) bt Shashikant Rahate 21-0; Dharmendra Kumar (TOI) bt Sachin Mokharkar 21-7; Vivek Puradbhat (Loksatta) bt Sandeep Wardhane (TOI) 21-16; Amit Sampat (TOI) bt Deepak Gurnani (TOI) 21-9; Ranjeet Deshmukh (TOI) bt Atul Pande (MT) 21-5; Madhav Soman (TOI) bt Sudarshan Sakharkar (Loksatta) 21-10; Vilas Tijare (Lokmat) bt Kumar Amlendu (TOI) 21-11; Subodh Ratnaparkhi (TOI) bt Devendra Sadavarti (Lokmat) 21-13; Sujan Masid (Dainik Bhaskar) bt Sandeep Dabhekar (TOI) 21-11; Alshar Khan (Lokmat Times) bt Lalit Patki (MT) 21-16; Vinay Pande (The Hitavada) bt Dinesh Wankhede (TOI) 21-7; Vijay Sant (Loksatta) bt Rupesh Chaflekar (Punyanagari) 21-2; Piyush Patil (MT) bt Avishkar Deshmukh (Lokmat) 21-14.
Men’s doubles: First round: Piyush Patil-Lalit Patki (MT) bt Anupam Soni-Nikhil Dixit (The Hitavada) 21-11; Ranjeet Deshmukh-Abhishek Choudhary (TOI) bt Roshan Bhakte- Rupesh Chaflekar 21-4; DK Khwaja-Sudarshan Sakharkar (Loksatta) bt Mahesh Sarangi-Manish Shriwas (Navbharat) 21-9.
Men’s doubles (2nd round): Ranjeet Deshmukh-Abhishek Choudhary bt Shashikant Rahate-Dharmendra Kumar 21-7.

(All pics Sudarshan Sakharkar/SJAN)

Media badminton tourney from March 20

The 10th edition of the annual badminton tournament for media employees, organised jointly by the Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) and Post Graduate Teaching Department for Physical Education, RTM Nagpur University, will get underway at the Subhedar Hall here on Thursday.

The three-day event will be sponsored by Vatsalya Group. India’s No. 1 men’s singles badminton player Kidambi Srikanth will be the chief guest for the inaugural function slated to be held at 11 am. However, the matches will begin at 9 am.

Chairman of Vatsalya Group Praful Gadge,  chairman of Board of Physical Education of RTM Nagpur University Dr Babanrao Taywade, NDBA secretary Mangesh Kashikar, co-ordinator of Post Graduate Teaching Department for Physical Education, RTM Nagpur University Sanjay Choudhary, and  Li Ning country marketing manager Ujjwal Bhalla,will be the guests of honour on the occasion.

Matches will be played in three categories – men’s singles, women’s singles and men’s doubles. The organisers have received record 64 entires for the men’s singles. Matches will be played with Li Ning feather shuttles.

Seedings

Men’s singles: 1. Ashish Jain, Vijay Sant, 3. Suhas Nayse, 4. Vilas Tijare

Men’s doubles: 1. Suhas Nayse-Madhav Soman, 2. Sunil Warrier-Manish Sakharwade.

Women’s singles: 1. Rakhi Chavan, 2. Manjusha Joshi.

India’s No. 1 shuttler Srikanth to inaugurate media badminton

India’s No. 1 men’s singles badminton player Kidambi Srikanth will grace the inaugural ceremony of the annual badminton tournament for media employees on March 20.

Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) and Post Graduate Teaching Department for Physical Education, RTM Nagpur University will be jointly organizing the three-day event.

With an impressive world ranking of 20, Srikanth is now India’s best men’s singles player. Recently the Guntur lad overtook Paripulli Kashyap in the rankings. Kashyap is currently slipped to world No. 25.

Srikanth, a trainee of Hyderabad-based Pullela Gopichand Academy, became the first Indian badminton player to win the Grand Prix Gold title outside the country when he emerged champion at the Thailand Open last year.

The 21-year-old could have become the first Indian to win two GP Gold titles but unfortunately lost in the final of the Syed Modi International India GP Gold Badminton Championship at Lucknow in January, 2014 in three games.

The SJAN media badminton meet will be sponsored by Vatsalya Group and will be held at varsity’s Subhedar Hall, off Amravati road. Matches will be played with Li Ning feather shuttles.

SJAN Media badminton from March 20

The Vatsalya group sponsored Badminton Tournament for Media Employees 2014 organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) in association with Post Graduate Teaching Department for Physical Education, RTM Nagpur University has been preponed due to some unavoidable circumstances. Now instead of March 21, the tournament will start on March 20 and will conclude on March 22, states press release issued by Kishor Bagde, Secretary, SJAN.

The three-day event will be  held at varsity’s Subhedar Hall, off Amravati Road. Matches will be played with Li Ning feather shuttles.

Last date for confirming entries is March 18. Entries should be confirmed with sports desks of respective newspapers. Amit Ramteke (8975755446) is the convenor of the tournament.



SJAN fetes Vid’s first natl carrom champ Dhongre

n Sports Reporter

VIDARBHA’S first national carrom champion Yogesh Dhongre was felicitated by Sports Journalists Association of Nagpur (SJAN) at Tilak Patrakar Bhavan on Tuesday.
Dhongre, who hails from Ansing village of Washim district, brought laurels to Vidarbha when he emerged champion in the 43rd national carrom championship which concluded recently at Visakhapatnam.
The 27-year old defeated former world champions in his first match and also in the final game.
Asked whether he was confident of doing well in the tourney, Dhongre said, “I was very confident of it (doing well). Before the championship, I asked my coach if anyone from Vidarbha has won the title. When he said no, I told him that I will surely bag the trophy this year.”
Dhongre, whose father runs a garage in Ansing Village, was also  awarded cash prize worth one lakh rupees by Vidarbha Carrom Association.
Vidarbha team finished third in the tournament. It would well have been a one-two finish for Vidarbha but Irshad lost the semi-final match. Mohammed Wasi, who was the coach of Vidarbha team, was also feted on the occasion.
Those present at the event included Prabjot Singh Bachher, General Secretary of All India Carrom Federation, Khan Mohammed Azhar Hussain, President, VCA, Yashwant Chitale, Founder Secretary, Vidarbha Carrom Federation and former carrom player Fattehmah Mohammed.
Bachher, on the occasion, said that Indian carrom players are doing well off late in international events.
“Apart from states we have 18  affiliated units which include top government agencies  like Indian Airlines LIC PB, Jain Irrigation. We have been doing quite well at the international level,” he said.
Khan Mohammed Azhar Hussain too said that efforts are on to make carrom popular amongst school children. “We have already started inter-school events in Zilla Parishad schools and we will start such events in CBSE schools as well,” he said.
SJAN president Dr Ram Thakur compered the event while secretary Kishor Bagde proposed a vote of thanks.