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IOCL in last four

NEW DELHI, AUG. 31. Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gupta, who just returned from Athens Olympics, recorded fluent wins in the men's team quarterfinal outing of the inter-PSPB badminton tournament at the Siri Fort Complex here on Tuesday.

Kanetkar thrashed V. Vatekar 15-1, 15-1 while Gupta beat Divakar 15-2, 15-2 as the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) blanked Indian Petro Chemicals Limited (IPCL) 3-0 and made it to the semifinal. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Oil India Limited (OIL) and Bharat Petroleum Company Limited (BPCL) also made it to the semifinals.

The results (quarterfinals):

Men: ONGC bt HPCL 3-0 (Thomas Kurian bt B. Gurang 15-4, 15-1; Rohan Kumar bt N.K. Hulsure 15-3, 15-0; Biju/Chetan Anand bt B. Gurang/R.V. Deshmukh 15-1, 15-2).

OIL bt EIL 3-0 (Praveen Kumar bt Y. Singh 15-4, 15-2; B. Bohra bt Rohit Dheer 15-3, 15-0; Pravin Kumar/Ajay Kumar bt Y. Singh/A. Khosla 15-1, 15-7).

BPCL bt GAIL 3-1 (Ravinder Singh lost to George Thomas 1-15, 2-15; Anoop Sridhar bt R. Parihar 15-2, 15-2; Arvind Bhatt/Ajit Vijay bt R.N. Mittal/Amit Singh 15-5, 15-3; Arvind Bhatt bt G. Rajkumar 15-3, 15-4).

IOCL bt IPCL 3-0 (Nikhil Kanetkar bt V. Vatekar 15-1, 15-1; Abhinn Shyam Gupta bt Divakar 15-2, 15-2; Jaseel P. Ismail/J.B.S. Vidyadhar bt Ajay Mane/Ajnal Singh 15-3, 15-1).

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