Seeded players have an easy first round

Friday, August 1 1997

Seeded players have an easy first round

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

NAGPUR, July 31: Most of the seeded players had an easy first round on the opening round of the first Maharashtra State Selection Badminton Tournament being organised by Nagpur District Badminton Association here at the University's Subhedar hall, here today.

Third seed Mayur Tawde (Mumbai Suburban) steamrolled past Pritesh Desai of Nagpur 15-2, 15-0, while fourth seed Amrish Shinde (Thane) routed Devendra Ringangaonkar (Nagpur) 15-9, 15-2 on their way to the pre-quarter-final stage.

In the women's section, top seed Asawari Patwardhan (Greater Mumbai) got a walk-over from Kajal Puri (Mumbai Suburban).

Archana Deodhar (Pune) got walk-over from Krupa Telang (Aurangabad), while her teammate Feroza Batliwala ousted Sheetal Laddha (Buldhana) 11-0, 11-2.

Results

Men's singles (1st round): Bharat Bhonsale (Thane) bt Pinaki Mukherjee (Nagpur) 14-17 15-9 15-4; Nilesh Phansalkar (Satara) bt A Dharmadhikari (Nagpur) 12-15 15-11 15-2, Sanket Shetty (GMBA) bt Robin Simon (Nagpur) 15-6 15-8, Rahul Lakhpati (Nagpur) w/o Vinod Brahmanwade.

Second round: Parag Modi (MSDBA) bt Vishwajeet Vairagade (Nagpur) 15-2 15-0, Mahesh Satve (Satara) bt Sandeep Singh (Nagpur) 12-15 15-5 15-10, Rutuparna Kulkarni (Aurangabad) bt Jayendra Dhole (Nagpur) 15-7 17-14, Kiran Makode (Nagpur) bt Rahul Deshpande (Nagpur) 15-8 15-1, Bunti Gujral (MSDBA) bt Prasad Sadhankar (Nagpur) 15-2 15-2, Amrish Shinde (Thane) bt Devendra Ringangaonkar (Nagpur) 15-9, 15-2, Sanket Shetty (GMBA) Nilesh Phansalkar (Satara) 15-7 15-4, Kunal Waswani (GMBA) bt Bharat Bhonsale (Thane) 15-12 7-5 (conceded), Nimish Goyal (Thane) bt Sarvesh Agrawal (Nagpur) 15-8 15-1, Alok Singh (MSDBA) bt Rahul Lakhpati (Nagpur) 15-1 15-2, Mayur Tawde (MSDBA) bt Pritesh Desai (Nagpur) 15-2, 15-0.

Women's singles (1st round): Trupti Murgunde (Pune) bt Leena Khajone (Nagpur) 11-2 11-6, Firoza Batliwala (Pune) bt Sheetal Laddha (Buldhana) 11-0 11-2, Kirti Kadam (Thane) bt Rashmi Pimprikar (Nagpur) 12-10 11-5, Sim Sim Salaria (MSDBA) bt Vinaya Shetty (Pune) 11-7 11-5, Nazneen Karimi (MSDBA) Swati Jain (Nagpur) 11-1, 11-1.