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PANJIM: The tenth edition of Gadre Gaspar Dias Open tournament got underway at Clube Tennis de Gaspar Dias, Miramar, on Thursday, with a series of matches in the tournament’s Masters division held on the inaugural day.
In the opening day fixtures, Rahul Kapse, Amit Tambe, Pavan Mokashi, Vikas Aswani, Arun Kataria, Nitesh Bhansali, Bulu and Sattyam defeated their opponents, namely Shubert Colaco, Vinit Dixit, Santosh Ganjikar, Nikunj Gupta, Stendhal Pereira, Anup Sardesai, Rajesh Jaiswal and Dnyaneshwar Surushe, respectively, in the first round of the men’s singles 45+ in the Masters category.
In the Masters 90 + men’s doubles category, Nisar S M/Mahesh C N beat Shivkumar Savadi/ Raju Karehonna (6-0), even as Lyndon Pinto/Basavaraj Pattanshetty defeated Subhani Bawakha/Iliyas Baikwadi (6-3), Rajesh Jaiswal/Eknathrao Ghodekar overcame a tough challenge from Amol Gaikwad/Ashish Maniyar (7-6) (4), Nitesh Bhansali/Saumil Sheth beat Surjit Lamba/Prithvi Naik (6-4), Amit Mete/Shrikant Tambe trounced Ravi/Dnyaneswar Surushe (6-1), Sachin Indulkar/Mahesh Kachare defeated Ganesh Badi/ Mukesh Kothari (6-4), Anand Jakati /Turamari overcame a tough challenge from Simon/Vijay Venkateswaran (7-6) (4) and Sandeep Agate/Abhijeet Marathe easily outdid Kapil Nair/Swapnil Bugde (6-1).
The tournament’s highly anticipated Open category matches will begin from January 27 and last up to February 2.