Mumbai : Defending champion Pankaj Pawar and former national and state champion Nagsen Etambe fashioned fluent wins to enter the men’s third round, in the Bombay YMCA 4th Mumbai District Ranking Carrom Tournament, at the Procter YMCA, Agripada.
Jain Irrigation’s Pawar, a former state champion, began his quest for a hat-trick of titles when he crushed Ashok Kharat 25-0, 25-0 to warm up for sterner tests ahead in a star-studded field, while doyen Etambe of Bank of India shunted out Manoj Kamble 25-0, 25-7 in the second round.
Kuldip Waghdhare and Vijay Marpelli were the only players to win deciders with Marpelli snatching a tight 25-11, 5-25, 25-15 win over Dilip Kale.
Vaibhavi Shewale, Jyoti Katdare and Maitreyee Gogate were the significant winners in the women’s first round.
Results: Results: Women (1st Rd): Vaibhavi Shewale bt Shubhada Nagaonkar 25-17, 14-25, 25-15; Jyoti Katdare bt Amulya Rajula 25-5, 25-5; Maitreyee Gogate bt Kalpana Mhatre 25-0, 2-0.
Men (2nd Rd): Chetan Vanel bt Jayraj Salvi 25-10, 25-11; Francis Fernandes bt Sanjay Korgaonkar 25-4, 25-4; Pradeep Khot bt Sandeep Jadhav 25-20, 25-6; Abhay Mayekar bt Ankush Gaikwad 25-24, 25-5; Anant Surve bt Osama Chaudhary 25-7, 25-3; Kuldip Waghdhare bt Ganesh Patankar 25-7, 8-25, 25-11; Nagesh Kalamkar bt Shrikant Shirawale 25-4, 25-1; Hemant Panchal bt Sayyed Kasim 25-8, 25-13; Ravji Gawade bt Pritam Puradkar 25-0, 25-12; Satyanarayan Dontul bt Suraj Kumbhar 25-10, 25-14; Vicky Makwana bt Laxman Ratadkar 25-9, 25-1; Nitin Pawar bt Milind Mayekar 25-0, 25-2; Vijay Marpelli bt Dilip Kale 25-11, 5-25, 25-15; Pramod Jadhav bt Laxman Simrala 25-15, 25-7; Ravindra Patil bt Pratham Mehta 25-5, 25-0; Pankaj Pawar bt Ashok Kharat 25-0, 25-0; Firoz Shaikh bt Jitendra Midbharkar 25-5, 25-6; Nagsen Etambe bt Manoj Kamble 25-0, 25-7; Deepak Sawant bt Shubham Suryavanshi 25-12, 25-16.