DEEP Manglani and Avani Peshkar registered commanding wins on Day One of Yonex-Sunrise Nagpur District Amateur Badminton Tournament, held in the memory of Kishor Zanzad, on Friday. A whopping 97 matches were played on the day amongst over 211 entries from 199 players at the NMC Badminton Hall, behind Sai Mandir, Wardha Road. In men’s singles, Manglani defeated Harshwardhan Tandulkar 15-9, 15-10 in their Round of 32 tie. In the girls’ singles section, Peshkar defeated Rajashree Hatwar, 15-5, 15-3. While in another match, Anika Payasi got over Triveni Kose, 15-12, 15-13. In the men’s doubles section, Anurag Manni and Piyush Walke pair beat Shreyash Dange and Yash Chotwani, 11-15, 15-10, 15-8. At the outset, the tournament was inaugurated at by Kunal Zanzad. Sandeep Saini, Nitin Dongre, Mukesh Devre, Atul Zod, Manmohan Bisht, Apoorva Karmore, Abhay Shelke and Yatharth Meshram (Tournament Director) were present during the function. Results: (MS) (R32): Tanmay Gawande bt Aayush Fendar 15-11, 15-3; Deep Manglani bt Harshwardhan Tandulkar 15-9, 15-10; Rohan Sahoo bt Manas Dambhale 15-12, 15-4; Vipul Wagh bt Tijil Lavi 15-13, 16-14; Tekendra Sanodiya bt Bharat Dhapodkar 15-9, 15-2; Arya Dhobley bt Yuhan Shaikh 15-8, 16-14; Samir Sahoo bt Mayank Mankar 15-7, 15-13; Nikhil Tumram bt Anurag Manni 15-11, 15-11; Aryan Awale bt Shreyash Dange 15-3, 15-5; Akshat Paturkar bt Nihal Ahuja 15-5, 15-6; Akshat Sharma bt Sarvesh Gawande 15-11, 15-6; Kabir Awale bt Durwankur Khangar 15-3, 15-4. (WS) (R32): Avani Peshkar bt Rajashree Hatwar 15-5, 15-3; Anika Payasi bt Triveni Kose 15-12, 15-13. (MD) (R32): Aditya Muthmare & Prajyot Kanojkar bt Swaraj Gupta & Vedant Varma 15-12, 15-12; Akshay Gajbhiye & Sarvesh Kukde bt Kaiwalya Pande & Parth Ambhore 15-5, 15-6; Deep Manglani & Vipul Wagh bt Aditya Kanetkar & Yash Khandelwal 15-10, 21-19; Aryan Awale & Kabir Awale bt Mudit Dangra & Soham Bawiskar 15-12, 15-7; Sachin Kuthe & Vrushank Bapat bt Kartik Borikar & Kunal Paithankar 15-9, 15-5; Tejanshu Deshmukh & Tekendra Sanodiya bt Sahej Bhatia & Vansh Jodhani 15-13, 15-11; Madhur Mahajan & Sahil Dakre bt Jitesh Tiwari & Pratik Palghamol w\o; Rajat Bhoyar & Varshith Reddy bt Harshit Thakur & Supriyo Bera 15-11, 15-9. (GS U17) (R16): Ria Kapse bt Lawanya Dandekar 15-9, 15-6; Sayli Khandade bt Alankrita Wasulkar 13-15, 15-6, 15-8.