Shishir Dwivedi and Priyanka Pant have respectively won the men’s and women’s category trophies of the Bhopal District Open Invitation Badminton Championship on Thursday. Akshay Panchal and Priyanka Pant were given special prize for their excellent performance in the championship organized by Bhopal Badminton Association under the aegis of MP Badminton Association.
Priyanka had won three while Hilal Jafri, Akshay Panchal and Laxminaryan Nandiraju have grabbed two titles each in the championship played at Udaan Sports Academy. Shishir Dwivedi won the final match of men’s single by 13-21, 21-14, 21-18 and Priyanka Pant won the final match of women’s single by 21-6n 21-16 and lifted the trophy. The final of U13 boys’ single was won by Yash Dave and duo of Mudit Gupta and Shaurya Mishra won the doubles of U13 boys’ category.
Gurpreet Singh and Ojas Varshney were the winners of U15 boys’ doubles, Akshay Panchal and Devang Tayde grabbed the title of U17 boys’ doubles. Kshitiz defeated Ashish Pradhan in the final of U19 boys’ single and won the trophy. DIG, CRPF RT Paramhans and Assistant Commandant, CRPF, Jitendra Rai were the Chief Guest of the prize distribution ceremony. The ceremony was anchored by Damodar Prasad Arya.