Top seed Ashish Jain, second seed Mahesh Sarangi, fourth seed Rajesh Sharma and unseeded SS Ahmed made it to the semi-finals of the singles category in the ongoing Suyash Herbal Badminton Tournament for Mediapersons at Subhedar Badminton Hall.
The tournament is organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) in association with Physical Education and Sports Department of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and Nagpur District Badminton Association.
In the quarter-finals, Lokmat’s Jain got the better of The Hitavada’s Nikhil Dixit 15-4, 15-11 while Sarangi got walk over Vilas Tijare.
Fourth seed Sharma defeated Tanmay Moon 15-11, 15-6 and Ahmed ousted Raviraj Ambadwar 15-11, 15-11.
In women’s singles, top seed Minal Jain beat Shanu Sharma 15-0, 15-4 to make it to the semis.
Results: Women’s singles QF: Minal Jain bt Shanu Sharma 15-0, 15-4; Meha Sharma bt Sakshi Singh 9-15, 15-13, 15-5; Priya Jais bt Sanz Lekhwani 15-4 15-4; Deepika Gedekar [2] bt Sonu Sharma 15-6, 15-6;
Men’s doubles: QF: Mahesh Sarangi-SS Ahmed [1] bt Subham Pathak-Tanmay Moon 15-3, 15-7; Fakhruddin Bohra-Manish Sakharwade bt Rajesh Sharma-Wasim Qureshi 15-13, 14-16, 16-14; Manish Shrivas-Satish Dandare got walk over Pramod Pardhi-Vilas Tijare; Ashish Jain-Raviraj Ambadwar bt Sohel Khan-Vishal Dandekar 15-2, 15-1.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Jain, Ahmed, Sharma, Sarangi enter semis
Friday, August 30, 2024
Suyash Herbal Badminton meet for mediapersons begins
Defending champion Ashish Jain of Lokmaat moved into the pre-quarterfinals in singles category of the Suyash Herbal Media Badminton Tournament organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) at Subhedar Hall, Ravi Nagar.
The tournament is being organised in association with Nagpur District Badminton Association (NDBA) and Department of Sports and Physical Education of RTM Nagpur University. Jain defeated Akash Masne15-2 15-3 to move into last 16. In another match Nikhil Dixit of The Hitavada defeated Navbharat’s Manish Shrivas 15-4, 15-5.
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Vikas Ahuja, Director, Suyash Herbal.
Dr Satish Gawande, Deshmukh Mangesh Kashikar, Senior Vice President, Maharashtra Badminton Association and Secretary, Nagpur District Badminton Association, Dr Vishakha Joshi, Acting Director, Sports and Physical Education, RTMNU, Paritosh Pramanik, Secretary, SJAN, Nilesh Deshpande, Treasurer were also present.
Aditya Galande is tournament referee while Aditya Chilkulwar, Abhishek Hayaran, Gaurav Narnaware and Yatharth Meshram are the umpires.
RESULTS
MS R16
Raviraj Ambadwar - Abhishek Singh 15-4 15-4 ;
Rajesh Sharma [4] - Yogesh Kumar Pandey 15-2 15-5 ;
Vilas Tijare - Piyush Patil 15-17 15-12 10-8
Ret.;
Mahesh P Sarangi [2] - Raghwendra Tiwari w.o.;
R32
Ashish Jain [1] - Akash Masne 15-2 15-3 ;
Nikhil Dixit - Manish Shrivas 15-4 15-5 ;
Ved Ghulghule - Sohel Khan 14-16 15-8 15-9 ;
Abhishek Singh - Sujan Masid [3] w.o.;
Raviraj Ambadwar - Subham Pathak 15-4 15-1 ;
Pramod Pardhi - Atul Pande 15-8 15-5 ;
Ss Ahmed - Wasim Qureshi 15-6 15-12 ;
Tanmay Moon - Deep Sudhakar 15-5 15-3 ;
Satish Dandare - Manoj Mohite w.o.;
Yogesh Kumar Pandey - M Nageshwar Rao w.o.;
Rajesh Sharma [4] - Deepak Yadav 15-4 15-2 ;
Piyush Patil - Vishal Dandekar 15-11 15-10 ;
Vilas Tijare - Prashant Bhawsar 15-6 15-5 ;
Raghwendra Tiwari - Dharmendra Kumar w.o.;
Mahesh P Sarangi [2] - Nakul Dongre 15-4 15-5 ;
R64
Atish Wankhede - Mohnish Kale 15-6 17-15 ;
Sohel Khan - Nilesh Deshpande w.o.;
Raviraj Ambadwar - Mandar Moroney w.o.;
Pramod Pardhi - Prakash Bhage w.o.;
Wasim Qureshi - Vrushabh Giri 15-11 15-11 ;
Deep Sudhakar - Proshun Chakraborty w.o.;
Satish Dandare - Amit Khodke w.o.;
Yogesh Kumar Pandey - Vaibhav Ganjapure w.o.;
Piyush Patil - Deepak Zanzad w.o.;
Raghwendra Tiwari - Kshitij Udar w.o.;
WS QF
Deepika Gedekar [2] - Sonu Sharma 15-6 15-6 ;
R16
Minal Jain [1] - Dhanashri Kolhe 15-3 15-3 ;
Shanu Sharma - Tanisha Salwan w.o.;
Sakshi Singh - Tanisha Jaiswal w.o.;
Meha Sharma - Devyani Naukarkar 15-4 12-15 15-12;
Priya Jais - Poonam Mahatme 15-6 15-6 ;
Sanz Lekhwani - Deepika Pal 15-5 15-4 ;
Sonu Sharma - Preeti Walunjkar w.o.;
Deepika Gedekar [2] - Shifra Newton 10-15 15-7 15-12
;
R32
Meha Sharma - Shubhangi Choudhari 15-10 15-7
Poonam Mahatme - Saroj Wartak 15-8 15-10 ;
Sanz Lekhwani - Vinita Chavhan w.o.;
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QF
Mahesh P Sarangi+Ss Ahmed [1] - Subham Pathak+Tanmay Moon w.o.;
Ashish Jain+Raviraj Ambadwar - Sohel Khan+Vishal Dandekar 15-2 15-1 ;
R16
Rajesh Sharma+Wasim Qureshi - Abhishek Singh+Akash Masne 15-6 15-7 ;
Manish Shrivas+Satish Dandare - Nakul Dongre+Nikhil Dixit 12-15 15-12 15-
13 ;
Deep wins rifle shooting contest for SJAN membes
Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) celebrated National Sports Day, birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyanchand by organising a 10-metre rifle competition for its members.
The competition was held at Mahatma Phule Sports Complex, Shooting Range Swavlambi Nagar.
The event was organised in association with Orange City Sports Shooting Club and under the guidance of national shooter Anil Pande. Deep Sudhakar of ‘Lokmat Samachar’ won the contest with 48 points. He was followed by Nikhil Kelapure of ‘Navrashtra’ (40) and Anupam Soni of ‘The Hitavada’ (38).
Sports organiser Shailendra Ghate and former SJAN President Dr Ram Thakur distributed the prizes. Shreyash Ramteke and Sagar Dhote were the referees.
Olympics games quiz competition held
Bhavan's schools swept the QuizZest, a quiz competition on Olympic Games organised by SGR Knowledge Foundation and SJAN at Riaan Tower, Sadar on Wednesday.