GD Birla Memorial Masters Inter-Club Badminton Tournament: Premal Mankar In Line For Double Glory

Premal Mankar kept himself in line for double glory, entering the semifinals of the Professional singles and doubles in the G D Birla Memorial Masters Inter-Club Badminton Tournament, co-hosted by Bombay Gym and promoted by Badminton Gurukul, here, on Thursday.

In the singles, unseeded Mankar accounted for fourth seed Rajan Samant, ralling to win after dropping the opener 12-15, 18-16, 15-9. In the doubles, Mankar, seeded second, along with partner Pranit Bane defeated Amar Salvi and Vivek Yadav 16-14, 15-17, 15-13.

Top seed in the singles and doubles, Manoj Nachanekar also made two semi-finals, defeating Sanjay Golbare 15-6, 15-7 and then partnering with Rahul Bhuvad to get the better of Aatish Annapurne and Ravi Annapurne 13-15, 15-11, 15-10.

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PROFESSIONAL SINGLES - Quarter final

Manoj Nachanekar [1] beat Sanjay Golbare 15-6, 15-7; Rajan Samant [4] lost to Premal Mankar 15-12, 16-18, 9-15; Akshay Kanchawade beat Shubham More [3] 11-15, 15-12, 15-9; Rahul Bhuvad lost to Chetan Bandarkar [2] 14-16, 12-15;

PROFESSIONAL DOUBLES - Quarter final

Amar Salvi/ Vivek Yadav lost to Pranit Bane [2]/Premal Mankar 14-16, 17-15, 13-15; Manoj Nachanekar [1]/Rahul Bhuvad beat Aatish Annapurne/Ravi Annapurne 13-15, 15-11, 15-10; Ananda Maskar/Rajan Samant beat Akshay Kanchavde/Dinesh Golbare 15-11, 15-13; Kalpesh Padekar/Sanjay Golbare beat Ajay Mali/Chetan Bandarkar 15-10, 15-9;

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PROFESSIONAL DOUBLES - Round of 16

Namdev Tambe/Rajesh Jadhav lost to Kalpesh Padekar/Sanjay Golbare 8-30;

MD 85+ - Round of 32

Nikhil Binani/Sukhwant Singh lost to Bibhash Chatterjee/Sagar Patil 28-30, Kaushal Shah/ Viren Ashok Shah lost to Kartik Shah/Maulik Jasapara 20-30; Kaushik Vartak/Sachin Bharati granted a walkover win against Milind R Purnapatre/Raj Singh; Manish Hadkar/Vivaswan Nimkar beat Kunal Rao/Rajan Samant 30-19; Joshua John/Rakesh Raghavan beat Giles Castelino/Jonathan Watts 30-15; Aashish Kapila/Yameer Sanghvi beat Akshay Gandhi/Parthasarathi Patnaik 30-24; Geaogre Jimmy/Ranjeet Kothari lost to Sachin Mandlik/Somnath Sonawane 13-30