Friday, October 21, 2011

Deccan Players Victorious in Nationals

Deccan Tennis Scheme student 15 year old Rutuja Bhosale won the Women's Nationals held in Delhi last week. In doing so she becomes the second youngest player to achieve this feat.

In Men's Doubles veteran southpaw Nitin Kirtane won the Men's Doubles partnering another Deccan Gymkhana member Arjun Kadhe.

Congratulations to Rutuja, Arjun and Nitin......

October 9 and 16, 2011

The remaining matches were completed this Sunday.
In the Anahita Pande won the girls under 12 singles by defeating Sachi Kulkarni 7-5 in a close match. In the boys under 10 segment, Jay Deokar was the winner, accounting for Mayank Joshi 6-2.

In the Girls Under 14, Anahita Pande got the better of Shambhavi Nadkarni: 7-2. In the Under 14 Boys, Christian Cummings defeated Aditya Iyer in a close match 6-4. In the round robin format, earlier in the day Aditya Iyer had defeated Christian Cummings. This is Aditya's second final in the Sunday Tennis League, he had won the Boys Under 12 title. Christian had lost the Under 14 final last month but went one better this time around.
16 October 2011

In the men’s doubles, Ketan Dhumal andAbhishek Tamhane won the title. In the final they prevailed over Mandar Wakankar and Mukund Joshi.
Vidyadhar Humnabadkar and Amit Patankar deserve a special mention. They won two close matches against much younger opponents. Vidyadhar is a regular participant in the 45 plus segment of doubles.
Semifinals:
Ketan Dhumal/Abhishek Tamhane bt. Vidyadhar Humnabadkar/Amit Patankar : 8-1
Mandar Wakankar/Mukund Joshi bt. Manoj Kusalkar/Sunil Kusalkar: 8-5

Finals:

Ketan Dhumal/Abhishek Tamhane bt. Mandar Wakankar/Mukund Joshi: 8-5

This Sunday, 23rd October , no matches will be held. Next matches on 30th October.
Happy Diwali to everyone....

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Schedule for October 2011

9th October - Boys and Girls Under 14 Singles

16th October - Men's Doubles

23rd October - Men's Singles

30th October - Women's Singles and Girls Under 12

Sunday October 2, 2011

Kids in 3 age groups competed for top honors on 2nd October at Deccan Gymkhana in the Sunday Tennis League.
The rains however were unrelenting and matches in Girls Under 12 and Boys Under 10 had to be called off at the semi final stage.
I would like to thank Riya Joshi, Sachi Kulkarni and Anahita Pande for their enthusiasm in mopping the courts. A few parents too helped in removing the water from the courts when the rains stopped. The remaining matches will be played on the 9th of October at 10:30AM.

Thanks to Sammit Ranade and Akshay Kadam for conducting the matches. Shyam Mehendale for his continued support and Synergy Sports for providing Gamma.

Results:

Girls Under 10

Sneha Ranade w/o Sejal Gandhi
Anaya Thorat bt. Aanisha Shewate: 6-1
Smita Walhekar bt. Sucheta Patil: 6-4
Avyakta Thorat bt. Sneha Ranade: 6-2
Smita Walhekar bt. Sucheta Patil: 6-4

Finals

Avyakta Thorat bt. Smita Walhekar: 6-1

Boys Under 10

Tanish Deshpande bt. Yash Liman: 6-4
Pratham Bhujbal bt. Nilesh Waghmare: 6-0
Mayank Joshi bt. Parth Sumbare: 6-1
Omkar Agnihotri bt. Nupur Choudhary: 6-2
Jay Devkar bt. Kapeesh Khandge: 6-3
Tanmay Darade bt. Pushkaraj Jagtap: 6-0
Vinil Patil bt. Arjun Gohad: 6-0
Dev Dharmadhikari bt. Shishir Singh: 7-5
Pratham Bhujbal bt. Tanish Deshpande: 6-0
Mayank Joshi bt. Omkar Agnihotri: 6-1
Jay Devkar bt. Tanmay Darade: 6-1
Dev Dharmadhikari bt. Vinil Patil: 6-0

Semi finals and finals will be played on 9th October

Girls Under 12


Anahita Pande w/o Sanjana Jadhav
Shreeya Varma bt. Apporva Gohad: 6-2
Riya Joshi bt. Cherisha Bhandari: 6-3
Nisha Waghmare bt. Mukta Bhairat: 6-2
Reeya Chavan bt. Aishwarya Khatal: 6-0
Sachi Kulkarni bt. Riya Chaphekar: 6-2
Nisha Waghmare bt.Reeya Chavan: 6-1
Shreeya Varma bt. Riya Joshi: 6-4

Remaining matches will be played on 9th October 2011