BSNL retains team championship title

Bangalore, Aug 26 (UNI) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) retained the team championship title, defeating Banks' Sports Board (BSB) 3-2 in the final of the ninth Inter Institutional Badminton Championship hosted by Canara Bank here today.

In women's section LIC lifted the title defeating BSNL 2-1. The open events began today.

Results: (Team championship) I Singles: K Tanishk bt Vivek Tatwawadi 21-7, 21-8 II Singles: Yogesh Chauhan lost to Abhijeet Naimpally 16-21, 21-14, 20-22 III Singles: Sarbojit Bhowmick bt Vineet Manual 21-16, 22-20 Doubles: Sudeep Bhattacharjee and Yogesh Chauhan bt Guruprasad and T Vivek 21-16, 21-14 Tanishk and Abhijit Datta lost to Abhijeet and Vineet 22-20, 19-21, 17-21 Women: I Singles: Leena Dhapre bt Jyothi Swarupa 21-14, 21-7 II Singles: Manju S G bt Manali Sinha 21-15, 21-18 Doubles: D Leena and S G Manju lost to S Jyothi and Deepthi 14-21, 20-22 Men's singles Pre-Quarter Finals K Tanishk (BSNL) bt Gurvinder (RBI) 21-9, 21-7 Kishore Kumar (LIC) bt Amit Sachdev (CAG) 21-19, 14-12, 21-19 Ranvir Singh (CSG) bt M L S Prasad (AFSCB) 21-8, 21-6 Naga Vinayak(LIC) bt Rudra Kaushik 17-21, 21-16, 21-18 Jaison Xavier (LIC) bt Abhijit Datta (BSNL) 21-14, 21-18 Asish Sharma (CAG) bt Ram Lakhan (ESB) 21-14, 21-18 A Suthakar (AFSCB) got w/o against Girish Kumar (DASCB) Anil Kumar (BSNL) bt Soumen Bhattacharjee (LIC) 21-14, 16-21, 22-20 Women's singles Quarter Finals Kavitha Dixit (LIC) bt Annie Pawah (DASCB) 21-18, 21-7 Neeru Chauhan (BSB) bt Bhavana Sharma (CAG) 21-14, 21-16.

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