MUMBAI, Sept 7: Mumbai teams had a field day in the Maharashtra State Junior Inter-District and State Open Badminton Championships that got under way at the Kalidas Sports Complex, Mulund (W) today.The Greater Mumbai teams made it to the semi-finals of the junior boys, sub-junior boys sections while the Mumbai Suburban outfits made the last four grade in the junior boys, sub-junior boys and sub-junior girls sections respectively.
Greater Mumbai's aspirations in the sub-junior girls were stalled by Thane who emerged 2-1 victors in their quarter-final encounter. Promising shuttler Shivani Mayekar had given Greater Mumbai an ideal start accounting for Mayura Wagle 11-4 11-8. However, Mayura teamed up with Shweta Khare to turn the tables in the doubles. The Thane duo won over Shivani and Aditi Kulkarni 15-7, 15-6. Ruma Rane then sealed victory for Thane with an emphatic 11-2, 11-2 verdict over Fatima Shah.
The Thane boys emulated their girls team entering the semi-finals of the sub-junior category with a2-0 win.
RESULTS (all team events)
Junior boys (quarter-finals): Mumbai Suburban bt Sangli 2-0 (Vivek Puthran bt Timir Arware 15-0 15-4; Amogh Kulkarni & R Rohan bt T Arware & Virag Shah 15-1 15-2); Greater Mumbai bt Nasik 2-0 (Harshad Tawde bt Sidarth Wagh 15-13 15-5; H Tawde & Deepak Jetley bt S Wagh & Abhishek Patil 5-15 15-3 15-3); Thane w/o Kolhapur
Sub-junior boys (quarters): Nagpur w/o Kolhapur; Greater Mumbai bt Mumbai Suburban 2-1 (Rakesh Yadav lost to Amit Singh 8-15 5-15; R Yadav & Swapnil Vyavaharkar bt Sujay Thakkar & A Singh 15-12 15-11; S Vyavaharkar bt S Thakkar 15-4 15-1); Thane bt Nasik 2-0 (Merick Gonsalves bt Pratik Kabra 15-3 15-10; S Deorukhkar & A Thakkar bt P Babra & Sujeet Patil 15-5 15-7); Pune bt Latur 2-0 (Ajit Pathak bt Ravi Suryavanshi 15-0 15-7; Yatin Nageshkar & Amol Kanade bt Jayant More & Alok Nimbalkar 15-0 15-0)
Junior girls (1st round): Nasik bt Nagpur 2-0 (Rucha Phalgune bt Archi Belekar 11-7 3-11 13-11; Rucha & Mamata Lodha bt Dipti Girdhar &Aditi Pandit 5-15 15-7 15-10); Greater Mumbai bt Latur 2-0 (Neha Ganguly bt Prachi Patil 11-0 11-0; Pooja Kotwani & Sampada Pai w/o Amruta Mahadik/Prachi Patil)
Sub-jr girls (quarters): Pune w/o Kolhapur; Thane bt Greater Mumbai 2-1 (Mayura Wagle lost to Shivani Mayekar 4-11 8-11; Mayura & Shweta Khare bt Aditi Kulkarni & Shivani 15-7 15-6; Ruma Rane bt Fatima Shah 11-2 11-2); Sangli bt Nagpur 2-0 (Dipti Paranjpe bt Aditi Pandit 11-4 1-11 11-3; C Sibil & Ruta Pitke bt Aditi & Archi Belekar 15-3 15-2); Mumbai Suburban bt Latur 2-0 (Riddhi Pajwani bt Namita Bajpai 11-0 11-0; Gauri Narayan & Nikita Hurkadli bt Namita & Prachi Patil 15-1, conceded)
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