Monday, August 7, 2023

Raut retains twin titles


KUNAL Raut of Mahasagar retained double crowns at the Ankur Seeds Carrom Tournament for Media Employees organised by Patrakar Club of Nagpur and Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur at Press Club, Civil Lines on Sunday.
In the men’s singles final Raut defeated Vijay Thakur of PTI Digital while in doubles, Raut and Vinod Suryawanshi ousted the pair of Bhimrao Lonare and Subhash Sharma of IBM TV 9. ‘The Hitavada’s Nasim Sheikh finished third in men’s singles event while Vijay Thakur-Girish Thakre pair took the third spot in men’s doubles.
Prizes were distributed by Bramhashankar Tripathi, Secretary, Patrakar Club of Nagpur. Dr Ram Thakur, President, SJAN; Paritosh Pramanik, Secretary; Naresh Shelke, Tournament Convenor Charudutta Kahu were present on the dais. Anupam Soni, Nilesh Deshpande, Kshitij Udar, Dilip Ramteke, Deep Sudhakar were also present.
Shelke conducted the programme and proposed a vote of thanks.
RESULTS
Men’s single semi-finals: Kunal Raut (Mahasagar) bt Nasim Sheikh (Hitavada) 25-0; Vijay Thakur (PTI) bt Sandeep Gadge (Tarun Bharat) 25-4. Third place: Nasim Sheikh (Hitavada) bt Sandeep Gadge (Tarun Bharat) 25-0. Final: Kunal Raut bt Vijay Thakur
25-6, 25-7.
Men’s doubles quarters: Kunal Raut-Vinod Suryawanshi (Mahasagar) bt Neeraj Chinchkhede-Rutu Borkar (Hitavada) 25-0. Semi-finals: Bhimrao Lonare-Subhash Sharma (IBM TV 9) bt Nasim Sheikh-Paritosh Pramanik (Hitavada) 13-12; Raut-Vinod Suryawanshi (Mahasagar) bt Vijay Thakur (PTI)-Girish Thakre (New Today Maha) 25-5. Third place: Vijay Thakur-Girish Thakre bt Paritosh Pramanik-Nasim Sheikh 23-11. Final: Kunal Raut-Vinod Suryawanshi bt Bhimrao Lonare-Subhash Sharma 25-6.

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