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Kolhapur
Open just an appetizer |
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Mahendra
Kapadia (winner) Receiving the trophy from Rahul Gopal (IPS),
wiht Kumar Shirgaokar (sponsor), Nitin Kareer (IAS) &
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Someone
had to do it and it happened to be the ISP which took the lead in
taking the sport of squash to the districts as required by the state
government to give it recognition. The Kolhapur Open, sponsored by
Ugar Sugar Works, had a good response from the locals as 12 players
from kolhapur and Sangli participated. In the beginning the locals
were not very enthusiastic as they thought getting 13 and 14 points
handicap, they began winning some opening rounds and began liking
the pattern of handicap scoring. The tournament had major upset as
seeded players from Mumbai like Niraj Shirgaokar, Mihir kapoor, Amit
Chinoy, Chandrakant Pawar, Santosh More and Avinash Bhavnani fell by
the kapadia, who developed the liking for squash just year earlier ,
beating the under-19 champ from Mumbai, Mihir Kapoor, in three
straight games. The winner was richer by Rs.4,000, while the runner
up got Rs.2,000. The team event between Kolhapur and ISP was well
fought. The teams were level two-all.
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the decider Avinash Bhavnani of ISP beat local was jointly sponsored by
Ugar Sugar Works Ltd. and ISP. The
Squash courts at the Residency Club,
are part of a rich heritage left by the British. They were built
over a hundred years ago and had a taste of competitive squash probably
for the first time since the war. The proud son of Kolhapur, Maharshtra
Ranji batsman of the 40s, Bhanusaheb Nimbalkar, inaugurated the
tournament. Bhausaheb is till a picture fitness and is best remembered for
his score of 443 not out against Kathiawar, which remains the highest by
an Indian. Arvind Singh (Collector, Kolhapur District) was chief guest.
Shishir Shirgaokar the sponsor announced plans to stage the event
annually, in the winter season.
Results
: Open Final: Mahendra Kapadia (Kolhapur) beat Mihir Kapoor (Mumbai)
15-5/15-8/15-14
Semi-finals:
Mihir Kapoor beat Niraj Shirgaokar (Mumbai) 15-14/17-16; Mahendra Kapadia
beat Sanat Shirgaokar (Kolhapur) 15-13/15-8.
Doubles Final: Amit Chinoy & Carl Bokdawala beat Mahendra Agarwal
& C.S.Pawar beat Avinash Bhavnani & Vishal Kapoor
15-14/14-15/15-14; Amit Chinoy & Carl Bokdawala beat Niraj Shirgaokar
& Rajesh Sonawane 15-13/13-15/17-15. Team Event: ISP BEAT KOLHAPUR
3-2: Santosh More lost to Amit Chinoy 17-21 Rajesh Sonawane beat Carl
Bokdawala 21-21 Vinay Bajaj beat Mihir Kapoor 21-12; Chandrakant Pawar
lost to Niraj Shirgaokar 20-21 Avinash Bhavnani beat Karan Ghorpade 21-13 |
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Otters
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Chandrakant
Pawar, Vishal Kapoor, Saket Wali, Priyanka Yadav, Mahendra
Agarwal, Amitpal Kohli and Narendra Gour at the prize
distribution ceremony. |
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Carl
Bokdawala just could not turn to his advantage the several match-points he
had and let off the hook veteran Chandrakant Pawar who paved for the Leela
the triumph over Otters Club ‘A’ in the semi-finals of the inaugural
Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana handicap team championship at Santacruz.
But Pawar’s luck ran out in the final against/Vijay Sonavane.
Sonavane tried out his older Karan Bhatti were the others to win their
matches in the final. Otters ‘B’ had beaten The Club, Andheri in the
other semi-final. The WCG were happy with the staging of the event and
announced their own tournament at the end of the month.
Results
finals: OTTERS ‘B’ BEAT THE LEELA 3-2; Supreet Singh lost to Priyanka
Yadav 11-15, 10-15; Cyrus Apoo beat Rahil Shah 15-13, 15-17, 15-12; vishal
kapoor lost to Sahil Shah 11-15, 15-13, 13-15; Vijay Sonavane beat
Chandrakant Pawar 15-9, 15-11
SEMI-FINALS:
Otters ‘B” beat The Club 4-1: Vishal Kapoor lost to Saket Wali 16-17,
15-9, 10-15; Vijay Sonavane beat
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Amitpal Kohli 13-15, 15-11, 15-13;
supreet singh beat Mihir Kapoor 12-15, 15-11, 15-9; Karan Bhatti beat
Yakub Shaikh 15-13, 10-15, 15-13; Sanjay Pawar beat Sahil Vora 17-14,
11-5, 15-11. THE LEELA BEAT OTTERS ‘A’ 3-2 Priyanka Yadav lost to
Vinay Bajaj 15-14, 13-15, 15-17; Rahil Shah beat Niraj Shirgaokar 14-15,
15-13, 15-14; Sahil Shah lost to Aditya Manjrekar 12-15, 15-8, 14-15;
Mahendra Agarwal beat Avinash Bhavnani 11-15, 15-8, 15-12; Chandrakant
Pawar beat Carl Bokdawala 13-15, 15-14, 15-14 .
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MOTILAL
SANGHI INTER-CLUB SQUASH TOURNAMENT |
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Results
all finals: Junior Boys: CCI bt Otters 3-2 Jay Bhagat bt Ishaan Balwani
3-0; Gautam Kalani bt Nikhil Seth 3-0; Rishabh Vora bt Rishabh Singhvi
3-2; Sahil Vora lost to Mihir Kapoor 0-3. Ladies: Willingdon bt JVPD 2-1;
Rhea Bhandare bt Saroj Mayadev 3-0; Supriya
Balsekar bt Vrinda Mehta 3-0; Anuradha Yusuf lost to Malika Samantray 0-3.
Men’s: CCI bt Otters 9-2; Anushul Manchanda
w/o Manish Chotrani; Summet Rewari
lost to Neeraj Shirgoakar 10-8, 5-9, 9-2, 5-9, 5-9 ; Rohit Gupta
lost to Saket Wali 4-9, 0-9, 1-9; Siddharth Suchde bt Cyrus Poncha 9-3,
9-0, 9-3; Darius Surti w/o Meherwan Daruwala; Anant Nayak w/o from S.
Ramchandani; hyamal Mashrulwala w/o from S. Motwani; M. Nathani bt Rustom
Dalal 9-4, 9-7, 9-1; V. Kochar w/o Bharat Shah; Anant More bt Santosh More
2-9, 9-5,9-5,5-9,9-2. |
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