Easy for Mumbai city & Suburban teams


Ninad Kamat’s heroics, saw Kolhapur turning the tables on Solapur 3-2 in a thrilling pre-quarterfinals tie to make the last eight stage of the team event in the Maharashtra Inter-District Badminton Championships, sponsored by Safal group and organised by Sports United at Chembur Gymkhana here today.

Ninad won his opening singles, routing Tushar Muley 21-12, 21-8.And then also featured in the men’s and mixed doubles ties to see his team through. However, Solapur women brought some cheers as they claimed both the women’s singles and doubles tie.

Fancied Mumbai city and suburban teams sailed into quarterfinals, as they scored identical 3-0 wins over Amravti and Sindhudurg .Nigel D’Sa who was pretty impressive while winning his singles tie. And then he and Viplav Kuwale proved too good for their rivals to cinch the tie. Riya Arolkar brought them them the other win as she thrashed Tanvi Hussain 21-5, 21-8.

Nigel D's ( left) with Viplav Kuwale during their Men's Double tie.

Nigel D’s ( left) with Viplav Kuwale during their Men’s Double tie.

Results:

Team Championships (pre-quarterfinals):
Kolhapur bt Solapur 3-2: Ninad Kamat bt Tushar Muley 21-12, 21-8; Vaibhavi Sabnis lost to Mrunmayee Deshpande 9-21, 15-21; Ninad Kamat/Akshay Manwad bt shripad Pardeshi/Tushar Muley 18-21, 21-18, 22-20; Apurva Gandhi/Vaivhavi Sabnis lost to Mrunmayee Deshpande/Tanmayi Shinde 10-21, 15-21; Ninad Kamat/Vaibhavi Sabnis bt Mrunmayee Deshpande/Shripad Pardeshi 21-16, 17-21, 21-17.
GMBA bt Amravati 3-0: Nigel D’s Kunal Desmukh 21-9, 19-21, 21-14; Riya Arolkar bt Tanvi Hussain 21-5, 21-18; Kunal Deshmukh/Ritesh Anantwar 21-17, 21-14.
MSDBA bt Sindhudurg 3-0:Satyajit Jagdhane bt Swapnil Sawant 17-21, 21-10, 21-11; Kalpita Sawant bt Vrushali Prabhu 21-9, 21-5; Abhidnya Sawant /Chirag Shetty bt Baburao Shinde Omkar Mayekar 21-4, 21-13.
Nashik bt Raigarh 3-0; Sangli bt Ratnagiri 3-0. .
CLOCK FOR SUNDAY
Badminton – 9 a.m. onwards – Team championships semifinals ; Chembur Gymkhana.