Pune: Falcons emerged winner at the tenth edition of ‘PYC – TRUSPACE’ badminton league tournament to be organized by PYC Hindu Gymkhana and played at Club Badminton Courts.
In the finals, Falcons scraped past Comets 4-2 to lift the title.
The winner got a trophy and medals. The prizes were given away at the hands of Mr. Kumar Tamhane, President of PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Mr. Deepak Gadgil, Hon Secretary of the PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Mr.Sarang Lagu, Joint Secretary of PYC Hindu Gymkhana,and Mr. Ashwin Trimal, Owner of Truspace, Mr. Tanmay Agashe, Badminton secretary of PYC Hindu Gymkhana. Tournament Director Mr. Nandan Dongre, Mr. Abhishek Tamhane, Mr. Vivek Saraf, Mr. Ranjit Pande, Kedar Nadgonde, Amod Pradhan, Sameer Jalan and Deepti Sardesai were present on the occasion.
Results: Final Round:Falcons bt Comets 4-2(Gold Open Doubles 1: Sarang Athavale/Sudhanshu Medsikar bt Aditi Rode/Bipin Chobhe 21-12, 16-21, 15-02; Open Doubles 3: Abhijit Rajwade/Vinit Rukari lost to Parag Chopda/Nilesh Kelkar 20-21, 12-21; Womens Doubles 4: Chitra Apte/Vaijayanti Marathe lost to Dipti Sardesai/Sandhya Bhat 11-21, 21-18, 11-15; Wiseman Doubles 5: Jitendra Kelkar/Prashant Vaidya bt Sridutt Shanbag/Devrat Shahane 21-14, 21-18; Open Doubles 6: Amar Shroff/Soham Kango bt Soham Joshi/Yash Mehendale 07-15, 15-11, 15-12; Open Doubles 7: Chitanya Walimbe/Rian Karandikar bt Preeti Sapre/Gautam Lonkar 15-13, 15-09);
Other prizes: Best Pair Silver Doubles: Akshay Oke/Soham JoshiBest Pair Womens Doubles: Dipti Sardesai/Preeti SapreBest Pair Wiseman Doubles: Jitendra Kelkar/Prashant Vaidya’Captain Choice Award(Male): Amar ShroffCaptain Choice Award(Female) Chaitra Apte
Player of The tournament(male): Sarang AthavlePlayer of The tournament(Female): Sanskruti Joshi.
