Junior Anand Pawar carried the Jamnabai flag when he battled bravely before going down to the senior top seed Akshay Thakkar in three close games 15-11 14-17 7-15. But Varun Motashe restored parity by demolishing the weak Sharon second Chintan Shah. Then Anand and Srinivas Kamat combined to put up a spirited display against Akshay Thakkar and Rachit Mehta. The foursome grabbed the attention of the crowd as the decider unfolded in three chapters, 15-7 9-15 15-11. Jamnabai will now run into IES English in the final.

Results

Boys team championship semifinal: IES English bt Cathedral 2-0 (Kailas Dalvi bt Vasant Mittal 17-14 15-10; Swapnil Vyavaharkar bt Animesh Kejriwal 15-5 15-11); Jamnabai bt Sharon English 2-1(Anand Pawar lost to Akshay Thakkar 15-11 14-17 7-15; Varun Motashe bt Chintan Shah 15-0 15-2; Anand Pawar & Srinivas Kamat bt Akshay Thakkar & Rachit Mehta 15-7 9-15 15-11)

Senior boys singles 1st round: Kyle Pereira (Stanislaus) w/o Nakul Sharma (GD Somani); Kailas Dalvi (IES) bt Ivor Miranda (Bosco, Matunga) 15-0 15-1; Sanket Bhat (OLPS) bt Manmeet Soni (Activity) 15-12 8-15 15-7; Ninad Venkatesh (Parle Tilak) bt Aviram Vij (MES) 15-4 15-3; Gavin D'Silva (Blaise) w/o Nigel D'Sa (Stanislaus); Salil Balgi (Assisi) bt Meherzad Marker (BJPC) 15-3 15-6; A Sandeep (Atomic Energy) bt Anish Gupta (Rajhans) 15-3 15-4; 2nd round: Salil Balgi (Assisi) bt Gavin D'Silva (Blaise) 15-4 15-4

Junior boys singles 1st round: Chinmay Sharma (Joseph, Colaba) bt Dave Pereira (Francis, Bhayander) 15-5 15-3; Aum Keswani (Hill Grange) bt Hiren Sharma (John) 15-5 15-1; Shamik Patel (Mary's) w/o Mulla Naveed (Modern English); S Laxminarayan (Don Bosco) w/o Anish Desai (Gyan Kendra); Maulik Shroff (Swami Vivekanand)bt Varun Mundkar (AVM, Bandra) 15-0 15-4; Paresh Vasandani (Bombay Cambridge) bt Zafar Ismail (Bombay International) 15-7 15-8; Nischal Shetty (SIWS) bt Chirag Shah (Our Lady of Remedy) 15-7 15-8; 3-Sagar Chopda (Pius) w/o Navid Ansari (Anjuman); Abhishek Bajpayi (Atomic Energy) w/o Gaurav Bhat (Rajhans); Qasim Ladiwala (Andrew's) bt Amit Telvekar (Balmohan) 15-12 12-15 15-4; Ajay Ganesh (Good Counsel) w/o Ninad Mahimkar (Parle Tilak); Nilesh Gawaskar (IES) bt Rahul Deshmukh (MVM) 15-0 15-0; Aditya Vaidya (Jamnabai) bt Vineet Anand (Xavier's, Fort) 15-4 15-4; Rushabh Agarwal (Campion) bt Bhavin Doshi (Joseph, Wadala) 15-0 15-4; Chirag Mansukhani (Scholar) bt Anshul Gupta (Rajhans) 15-3 15-3; Anway Kolwankar (Joseph, Wadala) w/o Tarang Gupte (AVM, Bandra); Naeem Jagani (Andrew) bt Nakul Joglekar (Parle Tilak) 15-3 15-0; Zarir Warden (Campion) bt Vipul Dave (Xavier's, Fort) 15-1 15-0; Junit Desai (Bombay International) bt Inderpreet Dhillon (MVM) 15-4 15-2; Prashant Rathore (Atomic Energy) w/o Nitesh Waikande(Joseph, Colaba); Karthik Devraj (SIWS) bt Aditya Vaidya (Balmohan) 15-12 15-1; Siddharth Gupta (OLPS) bt Shezan Kapadia (Bombay Cambridge) 15-0 15-0; Karan Motha (Mary) bt Shrawan (Gyan Kendra) 15-5 15-0; Aditya Kini (IES) w/o Malik Seemab (Modern); Praveesh Bisht (Children's Academy) bt Viraj Menon (Good Counsel) 15-3 15-1; Samarth Hegde (Cathedral) bt Vikram Mehta (Hill Grange) 15-1 15-0

Girls team championship semifinal: JB Vachha bt Anne's, Fort 2-0 (Anushka Sahni bt Gunjan Kulshrutha 11-7 11-0; Ramya Venkat bt Mansi Seth 11-3 11-2); IES English bt Jamnabai 2-0 (Aditi Kulkarni bt Kavita Kapadane 11-2 9-11 11-3; Shivani Mayekar bt Bakthi Mehta 11-0 11-2)

Junior girls singles 1st round: Ritu Bagri (Gopi Birla) bt Kavita Murthy (CJM) 11-0 11-0; Shreya Mehta (GD Somani) bt Priya Dayama (Our Lady of Remedy) 11-2 6-11 11-8; Sneha Mahale (Canossa, Mahim) bt Samikchha Rathoure (Francis, Bhayander) 11-8 11-2; Druti Deshpande (Parle Tilak) bt Ritika Shah (Villa Theresa) 11-0 11-0; Manasi Seth(Anne's, Fort) bt Gauri Patil (Balmohan) 11-1 11-0; Manasi Karkare (Convent Girls) w/o Rehana Shaikh (Anjuman Islam); Sanjana Govindan (Anthony's, Chembur) bt Supriya Laroya (Gyan Kendra) 11-3 11-4; Lorena Sequeira (Joseph, Bandra) bt Anupama Vishwanathan (Sardar Patel) 11-0 11-0; Neena Koli (Atomic Energy) w/o Viveka Purandare (Bombay International); Ranjana Nair (IES Dadar) bt Kimberley D'Sa (Joseph, Bandra) 11-4 11-3; Reema Jhaveri (Cathedral) bt Shraddha Bharti (Balmohan) 11-7 11-2; Kavita Kapadane (Jamnabai) bt Shweta Kolhatkar (John's, Goregaon) 11-0 11-0; Tanvi Dixit (JB Petit) bt Shreevidya Krishnakumar (Anne's, Fort) 7-11 13-11 13-11; Aditi Parikh (Convent Girls) w/o Sonali Surve (Swami Vivekanand); Apeksha Gupta (GD Somani) bt Janaki Telivala (Villa Theresa) 11-1 11-1; Tanya Nadkarni (Canossa) w/o Shaheera Sayed (Anjuman Islam); Nisha Kunda (John's, Goregaon) w/o Riddhi Mota (JB Vachha); Mehernaz Buzorg (Joseph's, Colaba) bt Jasmit Chawla (Our Lady of Remedy) 11-5 11-0; Palak Sood (Rajhans) bt RupalPrabhu (Gopi Birla) 11-7 11-2; Manasi Varma (Bombay Cambridge) bt Prachi Salvi (Sardar Patel) 13-11 11-4

Midget girls singles quarters: Pooja Todi (Cathedral) bt Ankita Gupta (JB Petit) 11-0 11-0; Vinita Ghate (IES) bt Amruta Padhye (Girton) 11-1 11-1; Madhura Paranjpe (Anne's, Fort) bt Esha Raheja (Anthony's, Chembur) 11-1 11-0; Ishani Sawant (JB Vachha) bt Alifiya Gadiwala (JB Petit) 11-1 11-3

Sophia enter semis

Sophia College displayed great spirit to enter the U-19 girls semifinal of the Multigames Inter-school Badminton tournament at Sachivalaya Gymkhana here today. Tied 1-1 against SNDT in the best-of-three match, Sophia were forced to play Nikita Dhond despite the southpaw visibly in pain due to a spondilitis attack. Sophia were not allowed to make a substitution as the college had registered Nikita's name. But Nikita rose to the occasion and won the decider in straight games. However, Sophia are unlikely to get past HR, which boasts of state sub-junior runner-up Neha Ganguly, inthe semifinal.

The winner of the HR-Sophia tie will meet RA Podar in the final. Podar defeated SIES Arts 2-0 in the semis today.

Results

U-19 girls: semifinal: RA Podar bt SIES Arts 2-0 (Gauri Narayan bt Sakshi Gupta 11-3 11-1; Gauri & Yesha Sanghvi bt Sakshi & Ishita 15-3 15-4); quarters: Sophia bt SNDT 2-1; HR bt SIES Commerce 2-0

HR beat Podar

HR Commerce knocked out last year's semifinalist RA Podar to enter the quarterfinal of the inter-college badminton tournament held at University Sports Pavilion here today. In other matches, holders Ruia and top seed Mithibai also made it to the quarters with identical 2-0 victories.

Results

Men's 4th round: RA Podar bt Jaihind 3-2; Sydenham bt Hinduja 3-0; NM Commerce bt Pendharkar 3-1; Mithibai w/o VES Tech; Joshi Bedekar bt KC 3-0; RD National bt Government Law 3-2; HR Commerce bt Lala 3-1; KC Law bt Elphinstone 3-1

Women's 3rd round: Mithibai bt CHM 3-0; Chetana bt Khalsa 2-1; SIES bt NM Commerce 2-0; Jaihind bt HomeScience 2-0; HR Commerce bt Podar 2-1; Sydenham bt Wilson 2-0; MMK bt Birla 2-0; Ruia bt Acharya 2-0