Pune: Chakravarti to take on Nigam in 70 plus finals at the Baba Rodrigues and Sons ITF S200 Seniors tennis championships

Pune, 4th May 2022: Topseeded Dipankar Chakravarti will take on second seeded Anil Nigam In the 60 plus Mens singles event at the Baba Rodrigues and Sons ITF S200 Seniors championships which is being played at the MSLTA School of Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis complex

In the semifinals Dipankar Chakravarti out played Shrikrishna Kulkarni 6-0, 6-1 while Anil Nigam overcame a tight first to stop Shirish Nandurdikar 7-6(1), 6-0

In the other quarterfinal matches in the Mens 35 event unseeded Pune player Ketan Dhumal continued his upset spree knocking out fifth seeded Sambhaji Chavan 6-1, 6-1 another unseeded Sujai Mahadevan knocked out second seeded Ganesh Devkhile 6-2, 6-0 to make it to the last four

In the Mens 45 plus event eleventh seeded Gagandeep Wasu upset fourth seeded Rajiv Arora 6-2, 6-1 while in the Mens 65 event Nasik’s left handed Eknath Kinikar shunted our fourth seeded Mahender Kakkad 6-1, 6-2 to make the last four .

Following are the Results:

Mens 35: Quarterfinal Round:

Ketan Dhumal (Ind) bt Sambhaji Chavan (Ind) [5]6-1, 6-1;

Arjun Uppal (Ind) [3] bt Aditya Abhyankar (Ind)6-2, 6-4;

Sujai Mahadevan (Ind) bt Ganesh Devkhile (Ind) [2] 6-2, 6-0;

Ravindranath Pandey (Ind) [1] bt Abhishek Chavan (Ind)6-2, 6-3;

Mens 40: First Round:

Aditya Khanna (Ind) [1] bt Amit Peter Kindo (Ind)6-4, 6-2;

Ratish Ratusaria (Ind) bt Prafful Nagwani (Ind) 6-4, 6-1;

Ravi Kothari (Ind) bt Yashesh Mukhi (Ind) 7-5, 4-6, 10-7;

Surendra Allam (Ind) [8] bt Kalpesh Makani (Ind) 6-1, 6-2;

Kaustubh Deshmukh (Ind) bt Shantish Paranjape (Ind)6-4, 6-0;

Swarandeep Singh Dhodi (Ind) [3] bt Tushar Pardeshi(Ind)6-1, 6-1;

Ramzan Shaikh (Ind) [5] bt Naresh Kumar Arora (Ind) 6-0, 6-0;

Mens 45:Quarterfinal Round:

Nitten Kirrtane (Ind) [1] bt Sujith Kumar T P (Ind) 6-0, 6-1;

Gagandeep Wasu (Ind) [11] bt Rajiv Arora (Ind) [4] 6-2, 6-1;

Sunil Lulla (Ind) [2] bt Jaikishan Lakhani (Ind) [9] 6-3, 6-2;

Parag Shah (Ind) [7] Vs.Girish Kukreja (Ind)

Mens 55 First round

Sanjay Kalgaonkar (Ind) bt Santosh Chitnis (Ind) 6-4, 6-4;

Ulhas Fulzele(Ind) bt Dharamvir Singh (Ind)6-0, 6-2;

Ajay Kamat (Ind) bt Kuber Chavare (Ind) 6-1, 6-1;

Mens 60: Semifinal Round:

Dipankar Chakravarti (Ind) [1] bt Shrikrishna Kulkarni (Ind) 6-0, 6-1;

Anil Nigam (Ind) [2] bt Shirish Nandurdikar (Ind) 7-6(1), 6-0;

Mens 65: Quarterfinal Round:

Yogesh Shah (Ind) [1] bt Ts Gambhir (Ind) [8] 5-0 conceded;

Eknath Kinikar (Ind) [5] bt Mahender Kakkad (Ind) [4] 6-1, 6-2;

Rajendra Singh Rathore (Ind) [3] bt Mridul Barkakoti(Ind)[6] 6-1, 6-4;

Ajit Kumar Blavelil (Ind) bt Dilipkumar Mehta (Ind) 6-0, 6-1;

Mens 70 First round

Francis Rodriques (Ind) w/o Ratnakar Joshi (Ind);

Anil Soundattikar (Ind) bt Laxman Ambulkar (Ind) 6-1, 6-3;

Shiv Mor (Ind) bt Parvathesam Ginagam (Ind) 6-2, 6-2;