Senior Nationals at Patna

Submitted by gbad_admin on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 12:33

For the Goa contingent, the top doubles pair of Navneet Nasnodkar and Sunny Sawant put up a good fight before bowing out 21 - 19, 23 - 21 to AP’s Sai Kumar Chainuru and H. Vinod K while Aashrun Gautam (Goa) went down fighting to Jharkhand’s Akram Safi, losing 21 - 19, 21 - 13 in Men’s singles. In other Men’s singles R1 matches, Prateek Mahajan (Goa) lost 21 - 7, 21 - 11 to MP’s Shubham Prajapati [11] while Floyd Araujo (Goa) lost 21 - 13, 21 - 4 to Aazad Yadav. In Women singles, Anjana Kumari (Goa) lost 21 - 11, 21 - 12 to Ruby Singh (CG) while Emilia Silveira (Goa) lost 21 - 15, 21 - 18 to TN’s Siri Chandana O. In Women’s doubles, Goa’s Anushka Kuvelkar & Emilia Silveira lost to Gauri Ghate & Akshaya Warang 21-11, 21 - 11. In Mixed Doubles, Goa's Sunny Sawant / Anushka Kuvelkar lost to Sanyam Shukla / Arathi Sara Sunil 21 - 9, 21 - 10. Laxmikant Kenaudikar accompanied the Team as Coach cum manager and performed his roles meticulously. With his friendly and fun going nature, he brought many live moments into the tour, and kept on encouraging the players to perform at their optimum best. Our thanks to Navneet Nasnodkar and Sunny Sawant, who assisted us with travel bookings and other arrangements.