Gujarat shuttlers too good for Goa
HERALD SPORTS DESK
PANJIM, OCT 25
Gujarat thumped Goa 3-1 in NRB Inter-State West Zone Badminton Championship at SAG Indoor Stadium, Campal, here on Monday.
Results: Rahimatoola cup quarters (men): Vivek Ojha bt Floyd Araujo 21-17, 21-15; Govind Navelkar bt Tejas Shah 21-9, 21-13; Arvind Gangani and Vivek Ojha bt Govind Navelkar and Pankaj Naik 21-12, 21-18; Hardik Patel bt Sunny Sawant 21-15, 21-10.
Chadha Cup quarters (women): Chhattisgarh bt Goa 2-0. Juhi Devangan bt Anura Prabhudesai 21-13, 21-7; Juhi Devangan and Sangeeta Rajgopalan bt Anushka Kuvelkar and Pranjal Chimulkar 21-14, 21-12.
Narang Cup quarters (boys): Chhattisgarh bt Goa 2-0. Shreyansh Jaiswal bt Sharmad Mahajan 16-21, 21-8, 21-9; Shreyansh Jaiswal and Aditya Nair bt Sharmad Mahajan and Aniket Shenai 21-17, 21-9.
Shafi Qureshi Cup quarters (girls): Chattisgarh bt Goa 2-0. Juhi Devangan bt Anushka Kuvelkar 21-18, 23-21; Juhi Devangan and Deepali Gupta bt Anushka Kuvelkar and Pranjal Chimulkar 21-12, 19-21, 21-19.
Semi-finals: Narang Cup (boys): Gujarat bt MP 2-1. Tejas Shah 21-8, 21-15 lost to Anurag Thakkar 8-21, 15-21; Tejas Shah and Aamir Sumra bt Shyam Patidar and Azad Yadav 23-21, 21-17; Aamir Sumra bt Azad Yadav 21-19, 21-16.
Maharashtra bt Chhattisgarh 2-0. Subhankar Dey bt Shreyansh Jaiswal 21-19, 21-13; Sarang Lakhanee and Bishal Das bt Shreyansh Jaiswal and Aditya Nair 21-17, 19-21, 21-11.
Shafi Qureshi Cup (girls): Gujarat bt Chhattisgarh 2-0. Anjali Rawat bt Juhi Dewagan 21-13, 21-13; Anjali Rawat and Nimmi Patel bt Juhi Dewagan and Tanvi Shukla 21-9, 21-7.
Maharashtra bt MP 2-0. Riya Pillai bt Khusbu Patel 21-15, 21-4; Sayee Purandare and Mansi Gadgil bt Rashi Bhalna and Khusbu Patel 13-21, 21-11, 21-15.
