Top seed Miranda advances into final of badminton tourney

Top seed Hubert Miranda of Mumbai Suburban District enjoyed an easy passage to the final defeating Austin DRozario of Pune District in two quick games at 21-3, 21-10 in a men's 65+ singles semi-finals match of the 'Badminton 45' Senior State Veterans Badminton Selection Tournament 2018, conducted by the Maharashtra Badminton Association and hosted by the Bombay Gymkhana.
In the finals, Miranda will clash with Ashok Sharma, also of Mumbai Suburban District, who prevailed over Madanlal Behetwar of Akola District 21-8, 21-14 in the second semi-final.
In the womens competition, Maria DSa of Greater Mumbai District, after some initial hesitancy, managed to find her rhythm and went on to complete a rather comfortable 21-13, 21-5 victory against Madhu Ahuja of Mumbai Suburban in the women 60+ singles semi-final encounter. In the other semi-final, Kanchan Sane of Pune did not have to get on to the court as her opponent Madhuri Zarkar from Thane gave a walkover.

Meanwhile, Greater Mumbai shuttlers Ashutosh Pednekar and Shailesh Daga, the number one and two seeds respectively in the mens 45+ singles event, smoothly progressed to the semi-finals. In the quarter-final matches, top seed Pednekar defeated Kousambi Roy of Mumbai Suburban 21-14, 21-8, while Daga tamed Sanjay Dhakite of Raigad District 21-9, 21-3.
Results: Women 60+ singles Semi-finals: Kanchan Sane (PN) w/o Madhuri Zarkar (TH); Maria DSa (GM) bt Madhu Ahuja (MS) 21-13 21-5.
Men 60+ singles Semi-finals:Vivek Patil (MS) bt Sharad Mahajan (NGP) 21-14 10-21 21-19; Sanjay Parande (PN) bt Mahesh Hegishte (MS) 18-21 21-16 21-11.

Men 65+ singles Semi-finals: 1-Hubert Miranda (MS) bt Austin D'Rozario (PN) 21-3 21-10; Ashok Sharma (MS) bt Madanlal Behetwar (AKO) 21-8 21-14.

Men 35+ singles Quarter-finals:Abhishek Patil (NSK) bt Deepak Jaitly (GM) 21-9 21-14; Sarang Vyas (PN) w/o Chintamani Lavand; Aditya Pandya (MS) bt 3-Manoj Vyas (AHM) 21-10 21-15; Sushant Niddodi (MS) bt 2-Vikrant Karanjkar (NSK) 20-22 21-15 21-7.
Men 40+ singles Quarter-finals: 1-Siddharth Patil (AUR) bt Manish Hadkar (PAL) 21-7 21-14; 4-Sachin Phadke (PN) bt Ashish Khedikar (NGP) 23-21 21-17; 3-Ajay Salvi (PAL) bt Sachin Bharati (GM) 21-11 11-21 21-17; Sandeep Mohan (MS) bt 2-Raghav Bhosale (TH) 28-26, 21-19.
Men 45+ singles Quarter-finals: 1-Ashutosh Pednekar (GM) bt Kousambi Roy (MS) 21-14 21-8; 4-Vilas Kuvale (GM) bt Pankaj Pathak (LTR) 16-21 21-15 21-12; Rajesh Rochlani (SNG) bt Deeepak kumar Damania (GM) 21-14 21-4; 2-Shailesh Daga (GM) bt Sanjay Dhakite (BOR) 21-9 21-3.