Good Start for Gargantu Destroyers, K-Pra Picklers at 1st Edition of ‘PYC – Pusalkar Foundation Pickleball League 2026
Pune, 4th March 2026: Gargantu Destroyers, K-Pra Picklers started their campaign on winning note at the first edition of ‘PYC – Pusalkar Foundation Pickleball League 2026 tournament to be organized by PYC Hindu Gymkhana and played at PYC Pickleball Courts
The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Kumar Tamhane, President of PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Mr. Rohan Pusalkar, Director of Pusalkar Foundation, Mr. Deepak Gadgil, Hon. Secretary of the PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Mr. Sarang Lagu, Joint Secretary, of the PYC Hindu Gymkhana. Jui Pusalkar, Pusalkar Foundation, Mr. Amit Madan, Sahil Madan of Champion Sports, Mr. Chandrashekhar Naniwadekar, Treasurer of PYC, Mr.Abhishek Tamhane, Secretary of Pickleball Dept. of PYC, Mr. Nandan Dongre, Mr. Avinash Ranade, Mr. Amod Pradhan were present on the occasion.
Results: league Round:
Gargantu Destroyers bt Vishhram Warriors 6-2(Open Doubles 1: Ishant Rege/Sahil Gaware bt Aditya Abhyankar/Anuj Mehta 11-10; Open Doubles 2: Sudhanshu Medsikar/Ojas Sabade bt Rohan Rajapurkar/Monish Gokhale 11-00; Open Doubles 3: Kedar Nadgonde/Karna Mehta bt Indraneel Kotwal/Akhil Atre 11-01; Mix Doubles 1: Shreyas Bamane/Sanika Gadgil lost to Sarah Navare/Sanmay Telang 01-11; Senior Doubles: Rohan Pusalkar/Samir Palnitkar bt Abhay Rajguru/Ashish Desai 15-03; Mix Doubles 2: Sameer Belvalkar/Kirti Shroff lost to Nishith Hegde/Kshirin Raje 05-15; Open Doubles 4: Yashodhan Panse/Saleel Chodankar bt Pratik Shetty/Harsha Jain 15-10; Open Doubles 5: Harshal Bakre/Rohit Agarwal bt Aditya Tapadia/Aayush Jagtap 11-07);
K-Pra Picklers bt Picky Blinders 5-3(Open Doubles 1: Yash Shah/Sangram Patil bt Nimish Kulkarni/Karan Jadhav 11-04; Open Doubles 2: Vinit Rukari/Rajveer Borawake lost to Rohan Damle/Shardul Walimbe 00-11; Open Doubles 3: Aditya Date/Neil Gowaikar lost to Jay Gujar/Krishnaneel Gore 00-11; Mix Doubles 1: Vaijayanti Marathe/Gaurav Patil bt Mukta Lonkar/Jay Pande 11-00; Senior Doubles: Tushar Nagarkar/Sanjeev Gholap bt Atul Thombre/Sanjay Shah 11-04; Mix Doubles 2: Yash Mehendale/Chaitra Apte bt Rajwardhan Joshi/Janhavi Prabhudesai 15-09; Open Doubles 4: Raunak Tilak/Ajinkya Shetty bt Manish Shah/Aditya Pavangadkar 15-09; Open Doubles 5: Samvit Kasat/Ketan Mutha lost to Akkash Suryavanshi/Gaurav Ketkar 05-11)
