Aug 7: Behzaad Devadhvala played two quarter-final singles matches with contrasting results. He had no trouble in the first one, as Ankur Jalpota conceded after trailing 11-15, 0-7 in the boy's singles match.

In the men's quarters of the Greater Mumbai District Badminton Tournament at the CCI courts today, however, Devadhvala ran into third seed Manohar Kanchwade who won a stirring battle 18-15, 9-15, 15-5.

Top seed Vikrant Patwardhan, second seed Vivek Gautam, fourth seed Kunal Vaswani and women's top seed Asawari Patwardhan went through the motions of winning their matches with ease.

Vikrant Patwardhan looked bored at times while beating the slightly amused Harshad Tawade 15-3, 15-0 in 14 minutes. The top seed had to work very little while toying with his opponent. In fact, the few points that Tawade managed to win drew applause from the small gathering.

Vikrant Patwardhan's semi-final opponent met with some resistance but in the end was too good for his opponent. Vaswani defeated Anil Raikundalia 15-5, 15-7 in just 33 minutes. The fourth seed was just too fast and sharp for Raikundalia in the first game which lasted 12 minutes. Raikundalia, who had a tough three game match yesterday against Bharat Bhosale, lacked in speed to match his speedier opponent.

Raikundalia, however, played a much better second game in which Vaswani seemed to have become slightly complacent. There were two brilliant rallies when Vaswani was leading 6-3. This was the only moment in the match when Raikundalia could match Vaswani point for point. Once the two points ended, so did Raikundalia's challenge .

Gautam won in straight games, 15-11, 15-9 while Asawari Patwardhan had an easier time defeating Hitali Shah without conceding a point.

RESULTS:

Men's singles (quarter-finals): Kunal Vaswani bt Anil Raikundalia 15-5, 15-7; Manohar Kanchawade bt Behzaad Devadhvala 18-15, 9-15, 15-5; Vikrant Patwardhan bt Harshad Tawade 15-3, 15-0; Vivek Gautam bt Vilas Kuwale 15-11, 15-9

Women's singles (quarter-finals): Asawari Patwardhan bt Hitali Shah 11-0, 11-0; Pooja Kotwani bt Sampada Pai 11-1, 11-2; Neha Ganguly bt Shambhavi Shivalkar 11-1, 11-0; Firoza Batliwala bt Serekha Satam

Women's doubles (quarter-finals): Asawari Patwardhan and Varsha Shah bt Priya Ramchandani and Aarti Doshi 15-2, 25-1

Boy's singles (quarter-finals): Behzaad Devadhvala bt Ankur Jalpota 15-11, 7-0 (conceded); Mateen Amin bt Rishab Ghia 15-7, 15-5; Rishab Modi bt Mayur Bhojwani 15-5, 15-3; Harshad Tawade bt Abhishek Kejriwal 15-6, 15-9Girl's singles (semifinals): Neha Ganguly bt Radha Bhat 11-0, 11-0; Jahnavi Lakhani bt Sampada Pai 11-7, 11-0.

Sub-junior boy's singles (quarter-finals): Deepak Jaitley bt Harsh and Mhaske 15-1, 15-0; Swapnil Vyavaharkar bt Animesh Kejriwal 15-10, 15-0; Abhishek Kejriwal bt Yogesh Rewaskar 15-5, 15-6; Mateen Amin bt Dilpreet Singh Sahani 15-1, 15-2.

Midget boy's singles (2nd round): Zarir Warden bt Prahalad Dalvi 15-0, 15-0; Varun Jhangiani bt Zafar Ismail 15-10, 15-7; Amod Athvale bt Rohit Prabhu 15-7, 15-10; Anniket Limaye bt Mahesh Rewaskar 15-7, 15-9; S Narayan bt R Batra 15-5, 15-7; Rushabh Adalji bt Mehul Pai 15-4, 15-11; Janit Desai bt Mohsin Amin 15-7, 17-16; Dilpreet Singh Sahani bt Sadat Sathak 15-1, 15-0; Quarter-finals: S Narayan bt Rishab Adalji 15-0, 15-2

NIDDODI, MODI THROUGH:

Top seed Sushant Niddodi breezed past Kedar Kalbag 15-1, 15-0 and book a slot in the under-19 boys' singles semifinals of the MIG Cricket Club Mumbai Suburban District Badminton tournament, here today.

Also through to the semifinals in the same group was Karan Modi who did not have things as easy but prevailing all the same over Rahul Tipnis 15-12, 15-11 in another quarter-final match.

Niddodi also made it to the third round of the men's singles, ousting Himanshu Chande 15-2, 15-2. He was joined by top seed Vijay Lancy, fourth seed Bhushan Akut and Parag Modi.

Lancy, a powerful smasher, outclassed Akhil Rawat 15-1, 15-0 while Akut, more involved in the doubles, scored an easy 15-1, 15-3 win over A Shrivastava. Modi got past Santosh Kshatriya 15-4, 15-6 in another second- round clash.

TOP SEEDS IN FINAL:

The top seeds Nikita Hurkadi and Ridhi Punjwani expectedly reached the final of under-13 girls event. Nikita crushed Sumitra Gantayat 11-1, 11-0 while Ridhi got past Aditi Mutatkar 11-3, 11-3 in the semifinals.

Akshay Biwalkar beat Ishan Kelkar 15-11, 15-13 to enter the mini boys final of the Thane District badminton championships at the DK Stadium, Thane, today.

Unseeded Ruma Rane made the midget girls semifinal with a 11-1, 11-5 win over third seed Manasi Marathe.

Other results (QFs): Boys: Midgets: Mandar Jadhav bt Kaushik Wahve 17-15, 15-7. Juniors: Sumedh Deorukhar bt Amit Diwadkar 15-3, 15-4. Girls: Midgets: Pooma Misra bt Alisha Chaubal 11-2, 11-2.

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