Badminton doubles title for Anil-Chandan
The pair of Anil Srivastava of Uttar Pradesh and Chandan Singh Panwar of Uttarakhand won the men’s doubles 50+ final on the concluding day of the 8th Sudama Badminton Cup at the Sector 38 Sports Complex on Monday. The title-winning pair defeated Jitendra Chauhan and Mahesh Khandwal 22-20 21-17.
Kanwalijit Singh of Delhi and Renu Mehta of Haryana bagged the mixed doubled 55+ title as the local pair of Rajpal Singh and Sargun Arora conceded the match 21-18 7-5 following an injury. In the men 60+ doubles final, Punjab’s Rakesh Kumar Bansal and Ram Lakhan posted a 21-7 21-7 win over Romesh Sharma of Jammu & Kashmir and Umesh Agarwal of Rajasthan, while the team of Maharashtra’s Rama Gautam and Sukseksha Saggi of Punjab won the women doubles 65+ final by overpowering a tough challenge by Delhi’s Nirmala and Kumari Negi of Uttarakhand.
In the men doubles 70+ final, the team of Anil Kumar Sondhi of Chandigarh and Haryana’s Satpal Angurala defeated Sudhir Goel and Hasan Kamal Abidi of Uttar Pradesh 21-6 21-16, and top seed Bharat Bhushan Gupta of Uttarakhand won the men’s singles 75+ final as Satish Gupta of Haryana didn’t turn up for the match. Dilnaz Anklesaria of Madhya Pradesh and Manisha Kabiraj of West Bengal won the women doubles 55+ event in a similar style. Delhi’s Vikram Bhasin and Mansi Goel won the mixed doubles 50+ final by defeating Jai Singh and Kalpana Singh 21-16 21-13, while in the men’s 60+ final, top seed Punjab’s Ram Lakhan beat Romesh Sharma 21-15 22-20.
In the mixed doubles 60+ final, Romesh and Sukesha Saggi posted a 21-15 21-12 win over Lakhan and Sargun Arora, while in the 65+ final, Gurpreet Singh Sidhu and Nirmala Kumari Negi defeated Anil Gurkha and Neera Pasricha 18-21 21-1. The pair of Anil and Gurpreet Singh won the men doubles 65+ final by defeating Pankaj Gupta and Gurcharan Singh 22-20 21-11, while Haryana’s Satpal Angurala won the men’s 70+ singles final by defeating Maharashtra’s Sanjay Dinkar Parande 21-17 22-20.
Anu Gera of Uttar Pradesh and Mansi Goel of Delhi defeated Anupama and Nalini Surya 21-8 21-3 to win the women doubles 50+ final, and the team of Amar Singh Nijwala and Kamal Dang won the men’s doubles 55+ title by defeating Rajesh Grover and Manish Arora 21-17 21-19.
