MUMBAI, Sept 19: Mithibai College entered the semifinals of the men's and women's team championship in the Inter-Collegiate Badminton Tournament at the University Sports Pavilion here today. The top seed women defeated Khalsa 2-0 while the men, seeded two, blanked NM Commerce 3-0. But Mithibai suffered a reverse in the singles quarter-finals when their top player and fourth seed Kajal Puri was knocked out by HR Commerce's Puja Kotwani. Defending champion Sampada Shetye and last year's runner-up Shalaka Damle also entered the last four.Results
Mens team (QF): HR Commerce bt KC Law 3-0 (Behzaad Devadhwala bt Kunal Vaswani 10-15 15-5 15-3; Viraf bt Raj Panchmatia 15-9 15-12; Behzaad & Viraf w/o Kunal & Raj); Podar bt Sydenham 3-1 (Vipin Pawar lost to Harshad Tawde 1-15 2-15; Rohan Radhakrishnan bt Kunal Rao 15-6 15-4; Rohan & Vipin bt Vishal Kapadia & Kunal Rao 15-1 15-1; Rahul Parab bt Parijat Cheema 15-2 15-1); Joshi Bedekar bt RD National 3-0 (Ashish Bhide bt Azeem J 15-9 17-15; MiteshHazarnis bt Z Ranjit 15-2 15-1; Bhushan Paithankar & Mitesh bt Azeem & Ranjit 15-8 15-2); Mithibai bt NM 3-0 (Gautam Poddar bt Ojas Vakil 15-7 15-3; Sushant Niddodi bt Deepesh Bakhrul 15-4 15-1; Sushant & Gautam bt Ojas & Deepesh 15-2 15-7)
Singles (PQF): Rohan Radhakrishnan (Podar) bt Gautam Poddar (Mithibai) 15-11 15-6; Bhushan Paithankar (Joshi Bedekar) bt Harshad Tawde (Sydenham) 15-13 15-7; Kunal Vaswani (KC Law) bt Deepesh Bakhrul (NM) 15-1 15-10; Mitesh Hazarnis (Joshi Bedekar) bt Rajiv Lund (Shahani Engg) 15-5 15-4; Jayesh Dhuri (Jhunjhunwala) bt Kedar Ambedkar (Somani) 17-14 15-4; Sameer Mahesh (TNMC) bt Sachin Bharti (New Law) 15-3 15-6; Behzaad Devadhwala (HR Comm) bt Salazar Kaldor (Xavier's) 15-8 15-4; Sushant Niddodi (Mithibai) bt Ojas Vakil (NM) 15-7 15-1
Womens team (QF): Jaihind bt NM 2-0 (Priya Nathani bt Koneri Gandha 11-3 11-3; Priya Nathani & Priya Ramchandani bt Koneri Gandha & Anisha Desai 15-6 15-5); HR bt Sydenham 2-0 (Puja Kotwani bt Swati Nair 11-0 11-2; Puja &Shilpa Jaisingh bt Payal Sheth & Aarti Doshi 15-4 15-10); Ruia bt MMK 2-0 (Shalaka Damle bt Preeti Rohera 11-0 11-0; Pooja & Shalaka bt Pooja Lund & Shweta Bhatia 15-8 15-4); Mithibai bt Khalsa 2-0 (Karishma Bhabha bt Kriti Shridhar 11-0 11-0; Kajal Puri & Sim Sim Salaria bt Kriti & Sanjana 15-0 15-0)
Singles (QF): Sampada Shetye (Joshi Bedekar) bt Binaifer Bharucha (Xavier's) 11-2 11-3; Shalaka Damle (Ruia) bt Shilpa Jaisingh (HR) 11-0 11-0; Puja Kotwani (HR) bt Kajal Puri (Mithibai) 6-11 11-6 11-3; Anita Shilwant (SIES) bt Vidya S (Home Science) 11-7 11-8
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