Mumbai: Shailesh Joshi narrowly edged past Vivek Yadav 30-28 in a thrilling professional singles encounter of the 32nd GD Birla Memorial Open Veteran Masters Inter-Club Badminton Tournament on Saturday.
While Joshi survived a scare, top-seeded players had an easy outing at the host club, Bombay Gymkhana. In the doubles category, the duo of Dattaram Radaye and Roshan Devlekar held their nerve in a closely contested match to defeat Chandrkumar Yadav and Sandesh More 30-27.
Meanwhile, top seed Manoj Nachanekar, second seed Chetan Bandarkar and third seed Premal M Mankar advanced with easy wins. In other matches Shubham More beat Jayesh Devlekar 30-23; Santosh Pawar defeated Susat Jadhav 30-12 and Sujit Jadhav outclassed Dattaram Radaye 30-18.
In the men’s doubles 110+ category, Parthasarathi Patnaik and Rajiv Parekh won a close 30-28 over Ashish Kapila and Dr Parikh, while the pairs of Denzil Pereira and Rajesh Meshram and Ashish Hilekar and Milind Gharat advanced convincingly.
