Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra lads recorded convincing victories to advance to the semi-final round of the Sub-Junior Boys’ Team Championship of the LIC of India sponsored 44th Sub-Junior National and Inter-State Carrom Championship, organized by the All India Carrom Federation and hosted by the Maharashtra Carrom Association, at the Halari Visa Oswal Samaj Hall, Dadar (East) on Wednesday.
In quarter-final encounters, Tamil Nadu team comprising of M. Kaushik and A. Musaraf, both playing the singles and the doubles pair of Guruprasath and Sandeep defeated Vidarbha 3-0.
In contrast the Maharashtra team encountered a bit of challenge from Assam before romping to a 3-0 win. The Maharashtra singles players, Ojas Jadhav and Mayuresh Naik, both had to dig deep to win their respective matches. Ojas got the better of Wakib Iqbal Hussain 12-5, 7-13, 14-6, while Mayuresh dropped the first game but rallied well to overcome Sahil Rahman 6-18, 14-8, 15-7. However, Maharashtra’s doubles combination of Om Taware and Pratham Mehta proved too good as they blanked the Assam duo of Dipak Rai and Faruq Sheikh 21-0, 22-0.
In the other quarter-final matches, Bihar prevailed over Hyderabad 2-1 and Delhi defeated Uttar Pradesh by a similar 2-1 scoreline, to also progress to the semi-finals.
In the sub-junior boys singles first round encounter, Maharashtra Arpan Bandivadekar showed great fighting spirit as he came back from a game down to defeat Tayyab Raila of Goa by a 13-17, 16-9, 21-4.
Meanwhile, former World Champion K. Srinivas of PSPB hogged the limelight with a break to finish in the third board of the second game as he went on to record a fluent 25-11, 25-0 win against Ansaar of Rajasthan in a men’s singles first round match of the 24th All India Federation Cup Carrom Tournament 2017-18, being conducted simultaneously.
However, former National champion Nagsen Etambe of Bank of India crashed at the first hurdle losing to Tamil Nadu’s G. Mukesh 6-25, 14-25.
In doubles action, Sangeeta Chandorkar and Kavita Somanchi of Reserve Bank of India defeated Mamata Kumari and Nisha Kumari of Bihar in straight games at 25-9, 25-6 to reach the women’s doubles semi-finals.
Zaheer Pasha and Ravi Waghmare from Reserve Bank also made it to the semi-final round of the men’s doubles event. They fought back after losing the first game to score over S. Aditya and Shaikh Mohd of Telangana 6-25, 25-14, 25-10 in a close quarter-final match.
Results : Team championship – Sub-Junior Boys (quarter-finals): Maharashtra beat Assam 3-0 (Ojas Jadhav bt Wakib Iqbal Hussain 12-5, 7-13, 14-6; Mayuresh Naik bt Sahil Rahman 6-18, 14-8, 15-7; Om Taware/Pratham Mehta bt Dipak Rai/Faruq Sheikh 21-0, 22-0).
Bihar beat Hyderabad 2-1 (Sohaib Alam bt Sabeer Jameel 21-0, 21-6; Md. Faiyaz Ali lost Syed Asif Ali 1-21, 8-15; Aditya Raj/Md. Imran Ansari bt Afran Ahmed/U. Girivardhan 19-12, 21-0).
Delhi beat Uttar Pradesh 2-1 (Mohd. Naashit bt Priyanshu Yadav 21-0, 15-3; Mohd. Areeb bt Mohd. Arsh 20-4, 21-4; Fraaz/Zeeshan lost Himanshu/Dilshad Ali 0-23, 1-21).
Tamil Nadu beat Vidarbha 3-0 (M. Kaushik bt Adi Samubre 10-5, 12-9; A. Musaraf bt Sheikh Nadim 16-10, 20-16; Guruprasath/Sandeep bt Mohd. Amin/Tanish Markande 21-8, 21-3).
Sub-Junior Boys singles (1st round): Ojas Jadhav (Mah) bt Sagar Kumar (Jha) 21-0, 21-0; A. Musaraf (TN) bt Priyanshu Yadav (UP) 21-1, 20-15; Arpan Bandivadekar (Mah) bt Tayyab Raila (Goa) 13-17, 16-9, 21-4; Om Taware (Mah) bt Nashit S. (Dli) 10-5, 18-1, 17-4; Sayed Asif Ali (Hyd) bt Kishan T. 25-0, 25-0; Nadeem Sk. Nabi (Vid) bt Sandip S. (Ben) 21-0, 21-0; David Bonal (Mah) bt Praveen Naik (Goa) 14-1, 10-8; Ksh. Boinao (Man) bt R.Y. Bobby (AP) 13-3, 8-10, 19-9; Ritesh Mohite (Mah) bt Md. Runith Pasha (Hyd) 24-1, 24-0; M. Kaushik (TN) bt Roshan Khainar (Mah) 21-4, 21-0; Sk. Karim (Odi) bt Vinit Singh (Ben) 16-5, 10-4; Sahil Thakur (Chd) bt M. Chinna (AP) 21-4, 22-5; Mohd. Areeb (Del) bt Mohd. Arsh (UP) 13-9, 15-3; Deepak Rai (Asm) bt M. Reenel (Man) 7-6, 17-0; Vinay Kerkar (Goa) bt Sebastian (Pud) 21-10, 21-9; Ashmit Bhakta (Mah) bt Sakib Ahmed 21-0, 16-4; Pauras Kargutkar (Mah) bt Meet Parmar (Guj) 23-0, 21-0.
Women’s doubles (quarter-finals): Nagajyoti/Ilavazhaki (PSPB) bt Sneha More/Meenal Lele (Mah) 25-10, 25-4; R. Gayatri/Ashmabarthini (TN) bt Nagajyoti/Neha Reddy (CCSCSB) 25-13, 25-13; Sangeeta Chandorkar/Kavita Somanchi (RBI) bt Mamata Kumari/Nisha Kumari (Bhi) 25-9, 25-6; Rashmi Kumari/Kajal Kumari (PSPB) bt Maitreyee Gogate/Priti Khedekar (Mah) 25-18, 25-5.
Men’s doubles (quarter-finals): Yogesh Pardeshi/Ramesh Babu (PSPB) bt Bharati Dasan/Kishor Kumar (CCSCSB) 25-8, 25-4; Zaheer Pasha/Ravi Waghmare (RBI) bt S. Aditya/Shaikh Mohd (Tel) 6-25, 25-14, 25-10; K. Srinivasan/Sandeep Deorukhkar (PSPB) bt Dilesh Khedekar/R.D. Dinesh Babu (CAG) 25-6, 24-25, 25-5; Prashant More/L. Suryaprakash (RBI) bt M.A. Hakim/Jiben Deka (BSNL) 25-2, 25-3.
Men’s singles (1st round): K. Srinivas (PSPB) bt Ansaar (Raj) 25-11, 25-0; L. Suryaprakash (RBI) bt Suhas Pomendkar (AIESCB) 25-24, 25-10; R. Shivkumar (Ktk) bt M.M. Santosh (Ker) 19-25, 25-8, 25-4; Malang Raila (Goa) bt Suresh Pradhan (Odi) 25-14, 25-16; Mohd. Mushtaq (MP) bt A. Amarjeet (Man) 9-25, 25-0, 25-19; S.K. Ilahi (AP) bt Koring Toma (Ar.P) 25-0, 25-0; Sanjay Nagaokar (BoI) bt Mohd. Nadim (Bih) 25-19, 25-11; M.A. Hakim (BSNL) bt R.D. Dinesh Babu (CAG) 25-7, 25-14; G. Mukesh (TN) bt Nagsen Etambe (BoI) 25-6, 25-14.