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All Results : Team championship: Otters Club (57 points) beat The Leela (55 points) 3-2 Rustom Dalal beat Rajan
Chandorkar 15-12/5-15/15-6/11-15/15-5
Other Scores: Juhu Gymkhana beat Playmate 4-1 Doubles: |
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All Press Articles of tournament :
Bhapu
stops Otters’ sweep The up and coming Rohan Bhapu pulled off a lone win for Playmate Club against favourites Otters Club in the second round of league matches of the Monarch and Mudra first suburban squash championship. Bhapu won a ding dong tussle against Vijay Chandey 12-15, 17-16, 16-15, 12-15 and 15-11. Otters Cyrus Poncha and Arif Paul won their matches and two walkovers gave them a 4-1 win. Otters also won the doubles. They lead in the team event with 26 points, followed by Juhu Centaur 24 the Leela 19, Juhu Gymkhana 11 and Playmate seven . In the doubles, Otters, Juhu Centaur and the Leela have six point each with three more rounds to go in the six team and doubles championship. The Leela scored a 3-8, 3-2 win over Juhu Gymkhana with their professional, Chandrakant Pawar, giving them a flying start beating Baburao Salvi 15-9, 15-7, 15-11. Rajan Chandorkar and Vinit Chauhan were the other winners. Juhu Centaur prevailed over Juhu Gymkhana 4-1. Raj Shahani and Riaz were their winners. Playmates
no match for Leela FINE victories by Prashant Agarwal, Vinit Chauhan Brian Sopher and Roy Greenfield helped the Leela score a 5-0 win over Playmate Club (Sea Rock) on the penultimate day of the Monarch and Mudra first suburban squash league. The Playmate’s players showed good fighting spirit though they have had practice as the hotel has been closed. The Leela (44 points) are now in second position behind favourites Otter club (48) whom they take on in their final match next Sunday. Otters beat Juhu Centaur with a lot of difficulty, three of the matches going the distance. Professional Santosh More clinched Otter’s win beating Riaz. Juhu Gymkhana beat
Holiday Inn 4-1 in the battle between the cellar teams. The
Leela pip Juhu Centaur The Leela defeated Juhu Centaur 3-2 in the Monarch Builders and Mudra Fabrics inaugural Suburban Squash tournament Chandrakant Pawar, Vinit Chauhan and newcomer Roy Greenfield got the victories for The Leela who added a double triumph through Pawar and Chauhan. The Leela are third in
the team event and share the lead with Otters and Holiday Inn with nine
points in the double championship. Otters(38) are the team leaders
followed by Juhu Centaur (31) with two more Sundays remaining for
completion of the six team league. Leela
drub Playmate The Leela with a 5-0 blanking of Sea Rock’s Playmate Club inched their way closer to leaders Otter’s Club in the Monarch and Mudra Suburban Squash League Tournament. Otter’s Club, who prevailed over Juhu Centaur 3-2, hold a four point lead over The Leela. In the doubles
competition, Otters Club and The Leela both have 12 points each. Greenfield
paves Leela’s win THE inclusion of Roy Greenfield, who did not play in the previous two matches, made a big difference for The Leela team, who at Juhu Centaur by three matches to two in the third round the Monarch & Mudra first Suburban squash championship on Sunday. Greenfield got one of The Leela’s three wins, the other victors being Chandrakant Pawar, their professional, and Vinit Chouhan. The Leela are still third behind Otter and Juhu Centaur in the team event but share the lead with Otters and Holiday Inn in the doubles event, which is conducted separately. Otters beat Juhu
Gymkhana 4-1, while Holiday Inn trounced Playmate 5-0. The
Leela triumph THE LEELA beat Juhu Centaur 3-2 in the Monarch and Mudra first suburban squash tournament, on Monday. Chandrakant Pawar, Vinit Chauhan and newcomer Roy Greenfield got the victories for The Leela who added a doubles triumph through Pawar and Chauhan. The Leela are third in the team event and share the lead with Otters and Holiday Inn with nine points in the double championship. Otters (38), are in the
lead followed by Juhu Centaur (31) Two more Sundays remain for completion
of the six team league. Tough
Stuff WHEN Briton Roy Greenfield came to Bombay six months ago on an assignment as consultant to the Bombay Metropolitan Region Development Authority for the city’s transport system, little must he have thought that he would also make the news as a sportsman. This came about when The Leela where Greenfield is staying decided to enter a team for the first suburban squash tournament, sponsored by Monarch and Mudra. Greenfield, who uses the club’s squash courts came to know about the match only after the hotel had played two matches and lost. Greenfield played the third one and was instrumental in The Leela winning it. The new tournament has sparked off interest among the five stars hotels with Holiday Inn also putting up a team and also Juhu Centaur Playmate Club, from Sea Rock hotel, even though this hotel has been closed after bomb blast. Sponsors Mahendra and
Prashant Agarwal’s idea of
the suburban tournament has made purposeful for those who hitherto have
been only casually working up a sweat at the squash courts of the five
stars hotels. Mehta
Upsets Vinit Chouhan Jiten Mehta showed tremendous guts under pressure to upset Vinit Chauhan and give Juhu Gymkhana a3-2 win over The Leela in the opening round of the six team Monarch and Mudra first suburban squash league. Mehta had lost the first two games but won the next two. In the decider he had little respite as the scores were level till 13. Mehta then produced that little extra bit from his reserves and won this second tie. Ram Raghavan and Ashish Soni won their two ties against Rajan Chandorkar and Prashant Agarwal, respectively to clinch Juhu’s win Brian Sopher got the lone win for The Leela, whose professional, Chandrakant Pawar, got a walk over. Pawar, however, pulled out a doubles win for The Leela in partnership with Sopher, beating Jiten Mehta and Sameer Mehra, of Juhu Gymkhana. The other matches were not so well contested. Otters Club beat Holiday Inn 4-1 and Juhu Centaur downed Playmate Club by the same margin. Former national ranked player Arif Patel and state junior Cyrus Poncha are turning out for Otters who are the favourites for the title. After the first round,
Otters and Juhu Centaur lead with 15 points, followed by Juhu Gyhmkhana
(9), The Leela (11), Playmate (5) and Holiday Inn (3). The winners will
take home Rs.4,000 an the runners- up Rs.2,000. Matches are played every
Sunday. Suburban
squash Squash in the suburban will get a boost when a tournament, exclusively for suburban clubs, will he held from April 11. Mahendra Agarwal on behalf of the sponsors, Monarch Builders and Mudra Fabrics, said total prize money would be Rs.10,000. The clubs who have sent their entries are Otters Club, who boast of national international stars, Juhu Gymkhana, Playmate Club (Sea Rock), The Leela, Juhu Centaur and Holiday Inn. Matches will be best of five and all six teams will play each other on round-robin basis. matches will be played on Sunday mornings from April 11, with the final round matches on May 9. Otters
Club emerge champs Otters Club won the Monarch & Mudra first Suburban Squash Championship after a grueling battle with The Leela hotel team at the latter’s courts on Sunday. Two of Otters Players won their tie after having been made to fight all the way. Veteran Rustom Dalal was taken the full distance by Rajan Chandorkar, Arif Paul also had to go to the deciding game to beat Roy Greenfield. The outcome of these two matches swing the balance in Otter favour. Otter finished with 57 points, just two more than The Leela to take the top prize of Rs.4,000. The Leela claimed Rs.2,000 the runners-up prize. Juhu Centaur required to win all their matches to oust The Leela from the second place but they dropped two ties to Holiday Inn winning 3-2 and finished third with 51 points. Juhu Gymkhana beat Playmate Club 4-1 in their final tie and finished fourth with 45 points while Holiday Inn (34) and Playmate Club (19) finished at the cellar. The Leela had the consolation of claiming the doubles championship. Their duo of Chandrakant Pawar and Vinit Chauhan put it across a much younger pair of Cyrus Poncha and Arif Paul in five exciting games to remain unbeaten among the six doubles teams that took part in the round robin . The winners pocketed
the first prize of Rs.2,500 for their effort, while the runners up
collected Rs.1,500 Otters
claim team title; doubles crown for Leela
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