Govind, who had earlier ended the unbeaten run of top seed Parteek Mahajan in the semi-finals, beat Floyd Araujo 21-12, 21-19 to emerge Men’s singles champion. Floyd came back strongly in Men’s doubles event after partnering with Darwin Barretto to defeat Parag Chauhan and Parteek Mahajan 18-21, 21-10, 21-19 in a closely contested match.
In the mixed doubles, Sanath Kamat and Emilia Silveira got the better of Parteek Mahajan and Anjana Kumari 21-18, 21-19.
In the veterans doubles 40+, Sandeep Kanji and Kapil Kanji beat CK Ayub and Sandeep Fowkar 21-12, 22-20 while in the 45+ category, CK Ayub and Manoj H beat Vaman Fallary and Pradosh Silimkhan 21-16, 21-17.
In the veterans doubles 50+ final, Vaman Fallary and Cancio Mascarenhas got the better of Peter Tellis and VG Prabhu 21-18, 21-17.
SAG coaches Roy Athaide and Vinayak Kamat were the officials for the tournament. Goa Badminton Association’s President, Richard De Souza; GBA Secretary, Narahar Thakur; Ponda Badminton club officials, Peter Tellis, Sudin Kuvelkar, Rajesh Kukalayenkar were present.
