MARGAO
Ashutosh Pednekar, Bhushan Akut, and Manoj Chandiramani won their respective age-group singles events in the veterans category, but Ashutosh's bid for a double crown was unsuccessful as he and Rajesh D'Souza went down to Sheetal Bhosale-Prithviraj Ingale in the doubles finals of the ongoing Gadre Gaspar Dias Open 2022 tennis championships being played at the Clube Tennis de Gaspar Dias courts, Miramar and at Panjim Gymkhana.
In the 45+ singles final, Ashutosh Pednekar brushed aside the challenge from Suresh Paul in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. The result in the 90+ doubles final, however, did not go in his favour. Bhushan Akut got the better of Ramesh RN 7-6,5-7,10-7 in another closely-contested final, for the 55+ men's singles title. In the 60+ final, Manoj Chandiramani cruised past Rafik Khotu 6-4, 6-2. Manoj thus bagged a double crown as he had earlier pocketed the 120+ doubles title in the company of Ajit Bhardwaj 6-1, 6-4.
Results: Pankaj Gaikwad beat Sanket Gaikwad 6-3, Sameer Kakodkar beat Nikhil Menezes 6-0, Arshad Desai beat Adarsh M 6-4, Arshad Desai beat Dmitry Smirnov 6-1, Saif Hakim beat Laxman Iyer 6-0, Shiva beat Vikram Gupta 6-3, Prajot beat Yash Khade 6-0, Ashwin Narsingani beat Arup Angle 6-3, Anant Kochhar beat Aditya Chowhan 6-3, Omkar Islampure beat Pranav Desurkar 6-0, Atharva Paranjape beat Anuj.
