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Badminton: Pune's Tanishka Deshpande wins double crown

Updated on: 15 July,2016 07:00 AM IST  | 
A Correspondent |

Pune's unseeded Tanishka Deshpande ended up winning the double crown, while Nagpur's Rohan Gurbani lived upto his top billing by winning the U-15 title in the 2nd Maharshtra State Dr Vijay Patil sub-junior badminton selection tournament at DY Patil Sports Academy in Nerul yesterday

Badminton: Pune's Tanishka Deshpande wins double crown

Pune's unseeded Tanishka Deshpande ended up winning the double crown, while Nagpur's Rohan Gurbani lived upto his top billing by winning the U-15 title in the 2nd Maharshtra State Dr Vijay Patil sub-junior badminton selection tournament at DY Patil Sports Academy in Nerul yesterday.


Tanishka thrashed her U-15 opponent — Greater Mumbai's Rudra Rane 21-9, 21-12. Later, she teamed with Janhavi Jagtap of Mumbai suburbs to blast the Pune pair of Ananya Phadke and Shatakshi Kinikar 21-14, 21-7.


In the boy's U-15 final, Rohan struggled before defeating Tanishq Saxena 21-11, 21-18.


Nashik's Skand Shanbhag, who trains under Mangirish Palekar, easily won the U-13 title with a 21-15, 21-7 win over Prajwal Sonawane.

Meanwhile, in the girls U-13, top-seed Tara Shah beat Greater Mumbai's Rudra Rane 21-15, 21-7.

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