Seeded paddlers post facile wins to advance

Pune, June 4 (UNI) Top seeds Martand Biniwale and Sanmay Paranjape posted facile wins respectively to sail to the third round on the third day of the Le Meridien Players Cup district ranking table tennis championship here today.

Biniwale made the short shrift of Parth Mehendale in straight games 11-4,11-8,11-3 in boys under-20 while Paranjape disposed off Parth Mehandale 11-7,11-5,11-6 in the boys under-17.

Following are the results: Youth Boys Singles (Under-20) Second Round Nitish Sapre beat Ranjit Deshpande 11-7,11-5,11-4. Pushkaraj Shrotriya beat Kedar Kulkarni 12-10,11-5,11-6. Arun Gokhale beat Prasad Patil 11-4,11-1,11-9, Ankit Singh beat Dhruv Damle 11-4,11-5,11-9. Martand Biniwale beat Parth Mehandale 11-4,11-8,11-3. Amish Karamchandani beat Ambar Kulkarni 11-8,11-7,14-12 Raunak Apte beat Pranav Renavikar 11-4,11-6,11-8. Aniket Gulawani beat Neeraj Sane11-4,9-11,15-13, 12-10. Sanmay Paranjape beat Anish Kale 11-3,11-4,11-6. Kedar Kulkarni beat Amodh Kolhatkar 2-11,10-12,11-7,11-9,11-5. Amol Soman beat Ashutosh Bhave 11-4,11-8,11-9.

Junior Boys Singles (Under-17) Second Round Aniket Gulwani beat Umesh Kapade 11-8,11-8,13-11. Sanmay Paranjape beat Parth Mehandale 11-7,11-5,11-6, Nitish Purandare beat Shantanu Joshi 11-2,11-6,12-10. Kunal Joshi beat Anish Pathak 11-3,8-11,11-8 11-8.

Pranav Renavikar beat Neeraj Pandkar 11-1,11-6,11-3. Siddharth Bhide beat Ranjit Deshmukh 11-7,11-5,11-6. Neeraj Sane beat Devendra Jadhav 11-8,11-6,11-8.

Men's Qualifying (Round Two) Raunak Apte beat Balasaheb Shelar 11-4,11-9,10-12,11-5, Omkar Jog beat Avinash Joshi 11-9,11-9,11-9. Amit Thakur beat Sunil Shah 11-9,11-7,9-11,11-6. Amish Karamchandani beat Parichay Vaze 11-9,12-10,1-11,11-8. Karan Kadam beat Ronny Todiwala 11-3,11-7,11-6. Sagar Gokhale beat Sagar Joglekar 11-8,11-7,11-7.

Kushal Kulkarni beat Ankit Singh 13-11,5-11,11-9,11-4.

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