From Rajan Samant entering the semifinals of the G. D. Birla Memorial Masters Inter-club badminton tournament to India beating Uzbekistan in Asia-Oceania WJT position playoffs, here’s all that happened in the world of Indian sports on Saturday, April 5.
BADMINTON
Samant enters semis of G. D. Birla Memorial Masters; Bilawala-D’Souza win easy
Professional Rajan Samant, also seeded No.1 in the men’s singles 45 category, scored a straight games 15-8, 15-6 win over Joseph Anthony to enter the semifinals of the 31st G. D. Birla Memorial Masters Inter-club Badminton Tournament at their courts in Mumbai on Friday.
In other matches, fancied Jitesh Padukone had to retire after winning the first game against Prashant Shah 15-13 and trailing 4-5 in the second.
Also advancing to the last four were Sachin Bharati, who rallied to defeat Dhirendra Maurya 10-15, 15-9, 15-9 and second seed Gautam Lad, who sailed past Pankaj Sampat 15-7, 15-7.
In the men’s 110+ doubles matches, top seeds Ayaz Bilawala and Rajesh D’Souza of Bombay Gym entered the quarter-finals with a facile 30-7 win over Anand Rai and Yogesh Kalia. Also advancing with ease were second seeds Bibhash Chatterjee and Yogesh Sanghvi, who defeated Jiji Jacob and Savio Lamb 30-13.
Top seeds Naheed Divecha and Shaiilesh Daga did not break much of a sweat before advancing to the semi-finals of the UNI Doubles with a 15-2, 15-8 win over Sanjay Deshmukh and Suraj Awatramani.
PROFESSIONAL SINGLES (ROUND OF 64)
Sanjay Golbare (BMC Gymkhana) beat Mangesh Jadhav (PJ Hindu Gymkhana) 30-9; Dattaram Radiye beat Ganesh More 30-12; Pranit Bane lost to Aatish Annapurne 30-14; Amar Salvi beat Jayesh Mahadik (Bombay Gymkhana) 30-5; Vivek Yadav beat Uday Jadhav (Garware Club House) 30-20; Mayur Devlekar beat Ravi Annapurne 30-16; Rahul Singh lost to Rahul Bhuvad 23-30; Jayendra Patekar granted a walkover win against Sahil Mali; Prafull Ghatvisave granted a walkover win against Kalpesh Padekar 30-12 Shailesh Joshi was granted a walkover win against Swapnil Gaikwad.
PROFESSIONAL SINGLES ROUND OF 32
Satish Mahyavanshi lost to Prafull Ghatvisave 13-30; Premal Mankar beat Rakesh Kanchavade 30-17; Manoj Nachanekar (1) beat Sanket More 30-13; Rajan Samant (4) (L) beat Rajesh Jadhav (CCI) (R) 30-11; Mayur Devlekar lost to Akshay Kanchawade17-30; Roshan Devlekar lost to Sanjay Golbare 5-30; Vivek Yadav beat Dattaram Radiye 30-16; Jayendra Patekar lost to Sohan Jadhav 17-30; Santosh Pawar lost to Shubham More (3)19-30; Shailesh Joshi beat Vishwas Jadhav 30-13; Rahul Bhuvad beat Ajay Mali 30-15.
Chetan Bandarkar (2) was granted a walkover win against Lalit Bane
Chandrakumar Yadav granted a walkover win against Ananda N Maskar
Amar Salvi granted a walkover win against Rajesh Jadhav Bg
Aatish Annapurne granted a walkover win against Jayesh Devlekar
MS 45 – ROUND OF 16
Dhirendra Maurya beat Suchit Khobarekar 30-18; Prashant Shah was granted a walkover win against Navin Kamat
MS-45 QUARTERFINAL
Rajan Samant (1) beat Joseph Anthony 15-8, 15-6; Jitesh Padukone retired Prashant Shah (Winner) – 15-13, 4-5; Dhirendra Maurya lost to Sachin Bharati – 15-10, 9-15, 9-15; Pankaj C Sampat lost to Gautam Laud (2) – 7-15, 7-15
WS 45 – QUARTERFINAL
Safiya Anjum was granted a walkover win against Linta Mathew
MD 110+ – ROUND 16
Ayaz Bilawala (1)/Rajesh Dsouza beat Anand Rai/Yogesh Kalia 30-7; George Varghese/Ranjeet Kothari lost to Anil Pandey/Vipul Shah 27-30; Anand Vithalkar/Vipool Patel beat Naushad Tamboli/Raj Sing 30-13; Parthasarathi Patnaik/Satinder Malhotra lost to Ketan Patel/Suraj Awatra 20-30; Santosh Oak/Suresh Mirgal lost to Jatin Agarwal/Naval Bir Kumar 19-30; Mukesh Mehra/Viren Ashok Shah lost to Rakesh Ragha/Yogesh Kumar 23-30; Ajit Bhide/Dr Shankar Rivankar lost to Prashant Mukherjee/Vilas Kuvale15-30; Jiji Jacob/Savio Lamb lost to Bibhash Chatterjee (2)/Yogesh Sanghvi 13-30
UNI DOUBLES – ROUND OF 16
Anand Vithalkar/Priya Ambekar beat Avniee Thakkarr/Savio Lamb 30-23; Sanjay Milind R Purnapatre/Naval Bir Kumar lost to Anil Ahuja/Tushar Jhaveri 18-30; Anil Pandey/Kumar Hinduja lost to Bibhash Chatterjee/Rajesh D Souza 22-30; Bharat Patil/Prashant Mukherjee lost to Satinder Malhotra/Vipool Patel 22-30
Anjali Parab/Narasimhan Kasthurikrishnan granted a walkover win against Camiel Seth/Mahesh Aras
Deshmukh/Suraj Awatramani granted a walkover win against Giles Castelino/Manoj Pawar
UNI DOUBLES QUARTERFINAL
Naheed Divecha (1)/Shailesh Daga beat Sanjay Deshmukh/Suraj Awatramani 15-2, 15-8; Anand Vithalkar/Priya Ambekar beat Anil Ahuja/Tushar Jhaveri 16-14, 5-15, 15-12
TENNIS
India beats Uzbekistan in Asia-Oceania WJT
India beat Uzbekistan 3-0 in the positional play-off match for the 9th to 16th places in the Asia-Oceania WJT under-14 girls tennis championship in Kuching, Malaysia, on Saturday.
The Indian girls will next play Sri Lanka which beat Indonesia 2-0.
Japan, Taiwan and Korea made it to the semifinals, while China was locked 1-1 against Australia with an unfinished doubles rescheduled for Sunday.
The results:
Play-off 9-16: India bt Uzbekistan 3-0 (Srishti Kiran bt Zlata Nizamieva 6-3, 66-2; Jensi Kanabar bt Muslimakhon Turdimurodova 6-1, 6-3; Srishti & Aaradhya Meena bt Zlata & Muslimakhon 6-3, 6-3).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
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