Triple Crown for Radhika, Double crown for Aditya Khanna and Ketan Dhumal at MT ITF S400 Seniors tennis championships.

 

Pune , October 12, 2023:  Radhika Tulpule Kanitkar won a triple crown at the ITF S400 Seniors championships-co sponsored by Aryan Pumps  and conducted under the Auspices of ITF, MSLTA and PMDTA  at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis courts

 

Former Fed Cupper and now coach of Indian Women’s Team  Radhika won the Women’s Singles  played in round robin format winning all her matches , she then tied up

With Radhika Mandke to win the women’s tournament and then tied up with her Spouse Aditya Kanitkar to win the mixed doubles 40plus finals 

 

Another Pune player Ketan Dhumal won a double crown as he added the 40 plus doubles title partnering Abhijit Muzumdar  the pair outperformed Girish Mishra  and Amit Tilak 6-4, 6-1.

 

Delhis Aditya Khanna scraped past Local player Mandar Wakankar 

 7-5, 6-7(4) [10-8] on a marathon match lasting 3hour 45 mins to win the 40 plus singles title adding to the 35plus Mixed doubles title he won yesterday 

 

Khanna missed out on triple crown as in the Mens 40 Plus finals Pune Pair of  Kedar Shah and Abhishek Tamhane  scored a 6-4,6-4 win over him and Sangram Chaphekar  to win the title 

 

The winner and runner up got the trophy. The prizes were given away at the hands of Mr.Sunder Iyer, Jt Secretary of  AITA , Devidas Jadhav  Chattrapati awardee and Former Coach of India Volleyball team

Devidas Jadhav , Mt Subash Sutar of Aryan Pumps Mr.Rama Rao Dosa, tournament director, ITF Supervisor Leena Nageshkar were present on the occassion.

 

Following are the results: Mens 40 Plus: final Round:

Aditya Khanna (Ind) [1] bt Mandar Wakankar (Ind) [2]  7-5, 6-7(4) [10-8];

  

Mixed Doubles 40 Plus: Final Round:

Radhika Kanitkar(Ind)/Aditya Kanitkar(Ind) bt Sonal Phadke (Ind)/Aakash Kale(Ind) 6-0, 6-1;

 

Mens 55 Plus: Semifinal Round:

Bhushan Akut(Ind)[1] bt Karanjeet Singh Parmar(Ind) 6-2, 6-0;

Alok Bhatnagar(Ind)[3] bt Jitendra Pradhan(Ind)[2] 6-1,5-7,10-3;

 

Mens 60 Plus: Quarterfinal Round:

Sharad Tak(Ind)[8] bt Pawan Jain(Ind)[1] 6-1, 6-4;

Lakpa Sherpa(Ind)[6] bt Ashish Sen(Ind)[2] 6-2, 6-4;

Sanjai Kumar(Ind)[4] bt Meher Prakash Koduri(Ind)[7]6-2, 6-3;

Nagaraj Revanasiddaiah(Ind)[5] bt Dilip Singh Nongmathem(Ind)[3] 6-1, 6-0;

 

Mens 65 Plus: Semifinal Round:

Ajeet Bhardwaj(Ind)[1] bt Rajesh Kumar(Ind)[3] 6-1, 6-2;

Muthati Suresh(Ind)[2] bt Nondove Poonacha Palanganda(Ind) 6-4, 2-6, 10-8;

 

Mens 70 Plus: Semifinal Round:

George Thomas Puthaparambil(Ind) bt Ratnakarrao Anne (Ind) [4] 6-3, 6-0;

Ajs Chhatwal(USA)[2] bt Ramarao Dosa (Ind) [3]  6-1, 6-1;

 

Mens 75 Plus: Semifinal Round:

Narender Janweja(Ind)[1] bt Venkata Krishna Kumar Aripirala(Ind) 6-0, 6-0;

Shrikant Parekh(Ind) bt Laxman Ambulkar(Ind)[2] 6-2,6-1

 

Women's 40 Plus: Round Robin: 

Radhika Kanitkar bt Arati Ganesh 6-1, 6-0

Radhika Kanitkar bt Niyati Jirange6-1, 6-0;

 

Doubles: Mens 40 Plus: Final Round: 

Kedar Shah/Abhishek Tamhane bt Sangram Chaphekar/Aditya Khanna 6-4, 6-4;

 

Mens 30 Plus: Final Round: Shrikant Kumawat/Vishal Salvi bt Prasanjeet Paul/Ravindranath Pandey 6-3,6-4

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Mens 35 Plus: Final Round: 

Ketan Dhumal/Abhijit Muzumdar bt Girish Mishra /Amit Tilak 6-4, 6-1;

 

Women's 40 Plus Doubles: Final

Radhika Kanitkar/Radhika Mandke w/o Mayuka Sakai/Arati Ganesh