PANJIM: Karan Dhavaskar and Anjana Kumari won double crowns each at the Late Manish Dharwatkar Memorial All Goa State badminton tournament, held at Indoor Stadium, Campal.
In the week-long event organised by Whirlwinds Sports Club in collaboration with Goa Badminton Association and the Sports Authority of Goa, Karan won the men’s singles and doubles title whereas Anjana won her singles and doubles category in the women’s section.
Karan was ably supported by Sohan Naik as they prevailed over Fredrick Fernandes / Manish Pankhania in a closely fought men’s doubles final while Yasmin Sayed teamed up with Anjana to clinch the women’s doubles title. The mixed doubles title was won by Fredrick Fernandes / Pranjal Chimulkar who edged out Sunny Sawant / Yasmin Sayed in an exciting 3 set match. Harsh Mane, Synnovia D’ Souza, Aryaman Saraf and Tanushri Shadani were other notable winners in the singles age group categories while Yash Desai / Pranav Naik ; Nyssa Dhupdale / Synnovia D’ Souza; Ayaan Shaikh / Yash Halarnkar; Pratishtha Shenoy / Disha Dutta; and Chetan Magdum / Siya Kolwalkar emerged winners in doubles / mixed doubles events. Following are the finals results:
U-15 boys singles: Harsh Mane bt Sarvadnya Khandeparkar 16-14, 15-8. Third place: Pranav Naik & Shaheen C.K
U-15 girls singles: Synnovia D’ Souza bt Sriya Saraf 15-10, 15-8 . Third place: Nyssa Dhupdale & Soumya Deshpande
U-19 boys singles: Aryaman Saraf bt Ayaan Shaikh 15-12, 13-15, 15-13. Third place: Yash Halarnkar & Chetan Magdum
U-19 girls singles: Tanushri Shadani bt Janhavi Virnodkar 15-8, 15-7. Third place: Riya Haldankar & Aarohi Coutankar
U-15 boys doubles: Yash Desai / Pranav Naik bt Harsh Mane / Shaheen C.K 15-13, 10-15, 19-17 Third place: Aashish Shirodkar / Parasmay Shenoy & Shubham Swamy / Ansh Chaurasia
U-15 girls doubles: Nyssa Dhupdale / Synnovia D’ Souza bt Sriya Saraf / Soumya Deshpande 15-6, 13-15, 16-14 Third place: Lakshita Sawal / Aarohi Coutancar & Minoshka Pereira / Aadya Chaurasia
U-19 boys doubles: Ayaan Shaikh / Yash Halarnkar bt Aryaman Saraf / Chetan Magdum 15-11, 15-13 Third place: Parth Kantak / Tejas Suthar & Yash Desai / Abhishek Swamy
U-19 girls doubles: Pratishtha Shenoy / Disha Dutta bt Siya Kolwalkar / Salauni Naik 15-6, 15-6 Third place: Tusharika Salgaonkar / Janhavi Virnodkar & Synnovia D’ Souza / Malaika Lobo
U-19 mixed doubles: Chetan Magdum / Siya Kolwalkar bt Aryaman Saraf / Janhavi Virnodkar 15-12, 15-7. Third place: Ayaan Shaikh / Riya Haldankar & Yash Desai / Disha Dutta
Men’s singles: Karan Dhavaskar bt Sadiq Attar 15-10, 15-6. Third place: Parteek Mahajan and Arjun Chauhan
Women’s singles: Anjana Kumari bt Pranjal Chimulkar 15-12, 12-15, 15-5. Third place: Tanushri Shadani & Yasmin Sayed
Women’s doubles: Anjana Kumari / Yasmin Sayed bt Sriya Saraf / Soumya Deshpande 15-7, 15-6 Third place: Malaika Lobo / Riya Haldankar & Juhi Punia / Sakshi Punia
Men’s doubles: Karan Dhavaskar / Sohan Naik bt Fredrick Fernandes / Manish Pankhania7-15, 15-3, 17-15. Third place: Sunny Sawant / Siraj Khot and Ayaan Shaikh / Sidharth Khot
Senior mixed doubles: Fredrick Fernandes / Pranjal Chimulkar bt Sunny Sawant / Yasmin Sayed 12-15, 15-13, 15-12. Third place: Karan Dhavaskar / Gauri Sawant & Manish Pankhania / Sachi Dhavalikar
