PANJIM: Anish Kamath and Anjana Kumari emerged Men’s and Women’s singles champions, at the State Ranking Tournament, organised by Shuttlers Club and Morning Badminton Club in collaboration with Goa Badminton Association and the Sports Authority of Goa held at Indoor stadium, Campal.
In the season ending tournament, Anjana Kumari won a triple crown while Tejan Fallary and Kamlesh Kanji won double crowns.
In men’s section, 16 year old Anish Kamath who had a fine run in the tournament played a near flawless match to registered an exciting 21-14, 21-17 win over Sushil Nayak to emerge triumphant.
Top seed Anjana Kumari on the other hand was stretched the distance before registering a hard fought 21-12, 18-21, 21-8 win over number two seed Yasmin Sayed in women’s singles finals. Earlier, in Men’s singles semi finals, Anish defeated Karan Dhavaskar 23-21, 19-21, 22-20 in a closely fought match while Sushil upset top seed Tejan Fallary 21-15, 21-8 in the other semis.
In men’s doubles, Tejan Fallary / Arjun Fallary battled past Floyd Araujo / Fredrick Fernandes 21-16, 23-21 to win the title while the women’s doubles title was won by Anjana Kumari / Yasmin Sayed who recorded a thrilling 21-15, 16-21, 21-18 win over Anar Singbal / Neha Sahakari.
In mixed doubles finals, Tejan Fallary / Anjana Kumari defeated Ayaan Shaikh / Yasmin Sayed 21-15, 21-18 to win the title. In promotional Veterans events, Sandip Kanji / Kamlesh Kanji defeated Ashutosh Pednekar / Kunal Sanvordekar 30 – 29 to win the Veterans Doubles.
In veterans mixed soubles, Kamlesh Kanji / Betty Dourado defeated Darwin Barreto / Supriya Pai Kuchelkar 30 -18 to lift the title.
Following third place (semi finals) prizes were awarded: Karan Dhavaskar and Tejan Fallary (Men’s Singles); Synnovia D’ Souza and Janhavi Mahale (Women’s singles); Karan Dhavaskar / Yash Kunkolienkar and Ayaan Shaikh / Sanath Kamat (Men’s Doubles); Soumya Deshpande / Sriya Saraf and Dhiti Lotlikar / Janhavi Mahale (Women’s Doubles); Sanath Kamat / Pratishtha Shenoy and Karan Dhavaskar / Anar Singbal(Mixed Doubles); Shamsudeen C.K / Darwin Barreto and Amit Kakkar / Vishal Vernekar (Veterans Doubles) and Ashutosh Pednekar / Manjiri M and Navin Palyekar /Vrushali Cardoso (Veterans Mixed Doubles).
Lakshita Sawal and Yash Desai emerged as promising players of the tournament. Richard D’ Souza (IFS) was the chief guest for the finals while GBA members Narahar Thakur (President), Sandeep Heble (Secretary), Nilesh Nayak (Tournament Director) and Vinayak Kamat (Technical Advisor) graced the final.
