NAGPUR men shuttlers secured bronze medal in the YonexSunrise Shivijiraje Bhonsle Memorial and Nandu Natekar Memorial Senior State InterDistrict Badminton Team Championship and Senior State Badminton Championship at Satara. The men team lost semi-finals to top seed Thane. The girls team lost to Thane in quarter-finals. All the team members were congratulated by Arun Lakhani, President, MBA, Kundatai Vijaykar, President, NDBA, Mangesh Kashikar, Sr VicePresident, MBA and Secretary, NDBA, Anand Sancheti, Amit Bajaj, Shriram Purohit, Bhavana Agrey, Anant Apte, Madhavi Kashikar Hedaoo, Gurdeep Singh Arora, Neha Gosavi, Nikhil Rokde, Ashwin Harkare, Bhavesh Deshmukh and Sneha Faizpurkar.

 

Result: Men: Nagpur bt Raigad 3-1. (MS1: Rohan Singh lost to Nishant Galande 16-18, 11-15; MS2: Ojas Gedam bt Tanay Mehendale 15-9, 15-11; MD1: Ajinkya Patharkar-Ojas Gedam bt Jinansh Jain-Nishant Galande 15-11, 15-6; MS3: Pranay Gadewarb bt Sahil Thakur 15-10, 20-18. Semis: Thane bt Nagpur 3-2: MS1: Om Gavandi lost toOjas Gedam 15-13, 12-15, 12-15; MS2:Sarvesh Yadav bt Pranay Gadewar 15-9, 15-8; MD1: Arjun Birajdar-AryanBirajdar lost to Ajinkya Patharkar-OjasGedam 15-12, 13-15, 15-17; MS3:Sanidhya Ekade bt Jeeva Pillai 15-1015-11; MD2: Aman Farogh Sanjay-PratikRanade bt Arnav Nimbalkar-Jeeva Pillai16-14, 15-13. Nagpur Team: AjinkyaPatharkar, Arnav Nimbalkar, Jeeva Pillai,Ojas Gedam, Pranay Gadewar, RohanSingh, Sairaj Nayse.