Aug 20: Bhushan Paithankar and Roshani Thakur have been given top seedings in the first Junior State Selection Badminton Tournament which begins at the Dadoji Konddeo Stadium, Thane (W) , tomorrow.

SEEDINGS: BOYS (Junior): 1 Bhushan Paithankar, 2 Sushant Nidodi, 3 Gautam Poddar, 4. Nimesh Goyal. Sub-Juniors: 1 Nitin Ingole, 2 Prashant Bhatre, 3 Sumedh Deorukhkar, 4 Aditya Umrani, 5 Amar Mohite, 6 Deepak Jetley, 7 Ameya Khandekar, 8 Himanshu Thakkar. Midgets: 1 Nishad Dravid, 2 Gaurav Sonawane, 3 Soham Gadgil, 4 Omkar Bapat, 5 Aditya Chitre, 6 Abhijit Vaidya, 7 Rohit Sadani, 8 Sagar Chopra.GIRLS (Juniors): 1 Roshani Thakur, 2 Neha Gangoli, 3 Sim Sim Salaria, 4 Trupti Murgunde. Sub-Juniors: 1 Neha Gangoli, 2 Trupti Murgunde, 3 Mugdha Bhagwat, 4 Gauri Narayan. Midgets: 1 Meghana Pawaskar, 2 Mayura Wagale, 3 Shivaji mayekar, 4 ridhi Pajvani.

Juvekar advances:Shishir Juvekar had to fight tooth and nail to quell the challenge of Vipul Vaidya 21-8, 16-21, 21-11 in the 2nd round of the cadets boys singles in the Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at Mahajan Wadi, kalyan

RESULTS: Boys (Cadet, 2nd round): Aditya Tawade (Thane) bt Sahil Nandanvan (Thane) 21-8, 21-9; Ravi Shah (Dhule) bt Chinmay Bal (MSD) 21-8, 21-7; Rohan Chinchwadkar (Thane) bt Sumesh Pathak (MSD) 21-12, 23-21; Shishir Juvekar (MSD) bt Vipul Vaidya 21-8, 16-21, 21-11; Sanket Utagi (Thane) bt K Nachiket (Thane) 21-6, 21-4; Prashant Aher (Nasik) bt Amod Tilak (Thane) 21-17, 21-19; Pinak Kulkarni (MSD) bt Chitanya Udhane (Thane) 21-6, 21-7; Sujan Navekar (MSD) bt Ashit Shah (MSD) 21-13, 21-16; Anirudh Sukale (MSD) bt Vaivasvan Parekh (MSD) 21-8, 21-15; Tejas Nandurdikar (Thane) bt Swapnil Waghchure 21-10, 21-13. Girls (Cadets 2nd round): Madhurika Patkar (Thane) bt Sailee Tungare (Pune) 21-7, 21-8; Radhika Karve (Nanded) bt Janhavi Kulkarni (MSD) 21-8, 21-17; Rujuta Rege (MSD) bt Prachi Shah (Dhule) 21-8, 21-17; Ashwini Mokashi (Thane) bt Juili Inamdar (MSD) 21-3, 21-14; Ruhi Chawla (Dhule) bt Swati Diwanji (Kolhapur) 21-13, 21-10; Shweta Joshi (Thane) bt Rucha Datar (MSD) 21-5, 21-16; Gauri Kaore (MSD) bt Nupur Gaidhani (Nasik) 9-21, 21-16, 21-5; Manasi Bhagwat (Thane) bt Neha Arora (Raigad) 21-14, 21-16.

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