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Ameya Joshi has it tough

By Our Special Correspondent

THANE Nov. 25 Home advantage played in a big part when the eight qualifiers for the boys singles main draw was decided on the second day of the Indian Oil-sponsored junior National badminton championships, with five Maharashtra players making the grade, three of them from Thane district and playing in familiar environs of the Khandu Rangnekar Hall.

The toughest match of the first two sessions featured local lad Ameya Joshi against Karnataka's Astik Biswas, the former squeaking home 21-20.

The results : (Final qualifying round): Boys singles: Kaushik Pal (Ben) bt Parag Tulpule (Mah) 21-19; Piyush Agarwal (Har) bt Prashant Kumar (UP) 21-13; Nitesh Joshi (Mah) bt Varun Gavande (Mah) 21-8; G.M.Nandish (Kar) bt Piyush (AP) 21-15; Abhinav Kapoor (Mah) bt Alwin Francis (Ker) 21-18; Ameya Joshi (Mah) bt Astik Biswas (Kar) 21-20; Nigel D'sa (Mah) bt Adip Nayak (Kar) 21-14; Amit Khadgi (Mah) bt Shashank Sastry (Kar) 21-4.

Boys doubles: Ayappan Krishnan (Ker)/Sagar Chopda (Mah) bt Kunal Mahajan/Arjun Singh (Pun) 21-11; Astik Biswas (Kar)/Parag Tulpule (Mah) bt Sunil Nain/Karan Kalia (Del) 21-9; Sumit/Rohit (Har) bt Amit Khadgi/Ameya Joshi (Mah) 21-1; Adip Nayak (Kar)/Anshuman Hazarika (Asm) bt Rohit Narke/Pawan Singh (Mah) 21-9; Akshay Dewalkar/Varun Govande (Mah) bt G.M. Nandish/S. Shastry (Kar) 21-19.

Junior girls doubles: Maitreyee Nigwekar/Rachna Bajaj (Mah) bt Gauri Sathe/S.Nimkar (Mah) 21-1. Mixed doubles: Anita/Rohit (Har) bt Neha Pandit/Nigel D'Sa (Mah) 21-15.

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