Thursday, March 20, 2014

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)

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