PANAJI
Chicalim Badminton Club (CBC) in collaboration with Goa Badminton Association (GBA) organised the all-Goa non-ranking, all-Goa veterans and Mormugao veterans tournament on March 5, 6 and 7 at Chicalim Indoor Complex.
The event comprised of 10 different events for the first time and was keenly contested by 110 top badminton players of Goa across all age groups. Some of the prominent players were Karan Dhavaskar, Sanath Kamath, Sohan Naik, Siraj Wadkar, Yasmeen Sayyed, Yash Kunkalienkar, Deepak Bhanushali, Yash Desai, Kamlesh Kanji, Kunal Savordevekar, Kishore Raghubans, Sameer Sangodkar, Geetesh Danghi and Ashok Gautam.
The winners and runners-up players of the tournament: all-Goa non-ranking men’s singles - winner: Deepak Bhanushali, runner-up: Ayaan Shaikh; all-Goa non-ranking men’s doubles - winners: Sohan Naik and Siraj Wadkar, runners-up: Shubham Naik and Prathamesh Naik; all-Goa veterans 35+ men’s singles - winner: Dr Ankush Patel, runner-up: Ashok Gautam; all-Goa veterans 35+ men’s doubles - winners: Kamlesh Kanji and Kunal Savordevekar, runners-up: Amit Kakkar and Vishal Vernekar; all-Goa veterans 35+ mixed doubles - winners: Kamlesh Kanji and Supriya Pai Kuchlekar, runners-up: Patrick Gonsalves and Betty Dourado; all-Goa veterans 45+ men’s doubles - winners: Arnold Rodriguez and Kishore Raghubans, runners-up: Sameer Sangodkar and Geetesh Danghi; all-Goa veterans 50+ men’s doubles - winners: Pradeep Prabhu and Dhananjay Shirsat, runners-up: Oscar Silvera and Leonel Fernandes; all-Goa mixed doubles (open) - winners: Siraj Wadkar and Yasmeem Sayed, runners-up: Manish Pankhania and Saachi Dhavalikar; Mormugao veterans 35+ men’s doubles - winners: Satish Kamble and Liju George, runners-up: Praveen Shenoy and Wilfred Fernandes; Mormugao veterans 50+ men’s doubles - winners: Rajesh Shirodkar and Vishnudutt Sharma, runners-up: Joe Dourado and Vinayak Moghe.
