Trio of The Hitavada’s Paritosh Pramanik, Kartik Lokhande and Nasim Sheikh stormed into quarter-finals of the Ankur Seeds Carrom Tournament for Media Employees that got under way on Saturday at Press Club, Civil Lines.
The tournament is jointly organised by Nagpur Press Club and Sports Journalists Association of Nagpur in a joint venture with Vidarbha Carrom Association.
Pramanik scored a facile win over Tilakchand Tembhurne of Vruttnama 24-1; Lokhande defeated Bhimrao Lonare of IBMTV9 while Sheikh thrashed Lokmat’s Wasim Qureshi 25-0 in a one-sided pre-quarter match.
Pramanik and Sheikh (The Hitavada) combined well to blank their rivals from Sandesh 25-0 to make it to the semi-finals. Other pairs to make it to the last four stage include — P Najpande-C Nagdeote (Lokmat); V Suryawanshi-K Raut (Mahasagar) and M Srivas-M Sarangi (Navbharat) who got the better of Lokhande-Chinchkhede (The Hitavada) 21-13 in a keen contest.
At the outset, chief guest Rahul Pande, State Information Commissioner, and Dilip Rodi, Director, Ankur Seeds inaugurated the competition.
Press Club President Pradip Kumar Maitra; Secretary, Bramhashankar Tripathi; SJAN President Dr Ram Thakur; Secretary, Paritosh Pramanik; Vidarbha Carrom Association Secretary Prabhjeet Singh Bachher; Tournament Convenor Charudatta Kahu also shared the dais. SJAN committee members Nilesh Deshpande, Anupam Soni, Piyush Patil, Nikhil Kelapure, Naresh Shelke and Sujan Masid were also present.
Siddharth Narnaware is the chief referee of the tournament.
Dr Thakur conducted the programme while Kahu proposed a vote of thanks.
District Collector Vimala R will be chief guest of the prize distribution function to be held on Sunday at 2.30 pm.
RESULTS
Singles 1st round: Vinod Suryawanshi (Mahasagar) bt Aman Jain (The Hitavada) 25-0; Paritosh Pramanik (The Hitavada) bt Roshan Tamboli (Tarun Bharat) 25-0; Wasim Qureshi (Lokmat) by Anil Fekrikar (Tarun Bharat) 25-0; Kunal Raut (Mahasagar) bt Anil Futane (The Hitavada) 25-0; Dharmendra Kumar (TOI) bt Pankaj Bobde (Tarun Bharat) 25-0; Kartik Lokhande (The Hitavada) bt MG Baig (Lokmat) 20-0; Bhimrao Lonare (IBMTV9) bt Durgaprasad Barwe (Supreme) 25-0; Vijay Thakur (RNO) bt Abhishek Tiwari (Navbharat) 25-0; Mahesh Sarangi (Navbharat) bt Akash Katre (Tarun Bharat) 25-0; Sudarshan Bagde (News Ngp) bt Sandeep Gadge (Tarun Bharat) 12-11; Charudutt Kahu (Tarun Bharat) bt Niraj Chinchkhede (The Hitavada) 25-0; Satish Dandare (Navbharat) bt Ashish Joshi (Tarun Bharat) 19-0.
2nd Round: Dharmendra Kumar (ToI) bt Chitranjan Nagdeote (Lokmat) 14-11; Pankaj Najpande (Lokmat) bt Vinod Suryawanshi 25-8; Umesh Mahadeokar (Tarun Bharat) bt Mahesh Sarangi , (Navbharat) 17-3; Subhash Sharma bt Sudarshan Bagde ((News Ngp) 17-0.
Pre-quarters: Nasim Sheikh (The Hitavada) bt Wasim Qureshi (Lokmat) 25-0; Pankaj Najpande (Lokmat) bt Mahesh Sarangi 25-0; Kunal Raut bt Umesh Mahadeokar 25-0; Kartik Lokhande (The Hitavada) bt Bhimrao Lonare (IBMTV9) 18-5; Dharmendra Kumar bt Satish Dandare; 25-0; Paritosh Pramanik (The Hitavada) bt Tilakchand Tembhurne 24-1; Umesh Pillare bt Subhash Sharma 5-4; Vijay Thakur (RNO) bt C Kahu 25-0.
Doubles QF: P Najpande-C Nagdeote (Lokmat) bt C Kahu-Ashish Joshi (TB) 25-13; P Pramanik-N Sheikh (The Hitavada) bt Durgaprasad Barwe-Umesh Pillare (Sandesh) 25-0; V Suryawanshi-K Raut (Mahasagar) bt S Sharma-V Thakur 25-4; M Srivas-M Sarangi (Navbharat) bt K Lokhande-N Chinchkhede (The Hitavada) 21-13.
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