SAIRAJ Nayse clinched twin titles winning the Under-17 singles and men’s doubles trophies as it was curtains on the Diffusion Engineers’ NK Garg Memorial Nagpur District Selection Tournament at Subhedar Hall on Saturday. In the Under-17 summit clash, Nayse defeated Devansh Thaokar 15-11, 15-8. Continuing his fine form, Nayse paired with Arnav Nimbalkar to beat Jeeva Pillai and Shantanu Sapkal duo 15-9, 15-13 to claim the men’s doubles title. The men’s singles title was won by Rohan Singh who swept aside the challenge from Aarav Thakre 15-9, 15-3. Thakre did not go empty handed as he claimed boys Under-19 title defeating Devansh Thaokar 15-10, 15-7.

 

The prizes were distributed by Shreekant Premkhede, Sr Vice-President, Operations, Diffusion Engineers Limited. Abhishek Mehta, CFO, Anita Vijaykar, Director, NK Garg Foundation, Kundatai Vijaykar, President, NDBA, Bhavana Aagrey, Joint Secretary, NDBA, Gurdeep Singh Arora, EC member, NDBA were also present. Results: (All finals): BS U-9: Ayaan Tamhan (1) bt Shaurya Chitlange 15-12, 15-4. GS U-9: Rajnandini Sayam (1) bt Aanya Jha 15-13, 9-15, 15-11. BS U-11: Raghav Niwarti (1) bt Pradyumna Meshram 15-6, 15-10. GS U-11: Chinmayi Dapurkar bt Paridhi Hadole 12-15, 15-6, 15-9. BS U-13: Aaradhya Kalaskar bt Raghav Niwarti 15-7, 15-9. GS U-13: Aanya Malhotra bt Akshita Dorshatwar 15-11, 15-12. BS U-15: Kapish Kolhe bt Arnav Gupta 15-12, 15-12. GS U-15: Anudhya Satpute (1) bt Harshika Sharma 15-12, 15-6. GS U-17: Vaishnavi Manglekar bt Vridhi Bang 15-12, 15-6. BD U-17: Mayank Mishra and Zeeshan Khan bt Aarav Thakre and Ojas Deshmukh 15-10, 6-15, 15-13. BS U-19: Aarav Thakre bt Devansh Thaokar 15-10, 15-7.