The Pro Badminton League, organised by Panjim Badminton Club in association with Sports Authority of Goa, at Indoor Stadium, Campal-Panaji got off to a bright start with several exciting and entertaining matches. Reigning Champions Models Eagles stuttered en route to a 3-1 victory over the Vasco outfit Harbour Blues. Meanwhile, hot favourites Fomento Flamingos too survived a scare from GBA Super Riders, the Ponda Team, before prevailing 3-2 in a nail-biting edge of the seat thriller. While the match between Fallary Warriors and PBC Panthers was expected to go the distance, the Warriors surprisingly won the contest quite easily with a 3-0 score-line. Pre-Tournament Favourites Caculo Chargers too scored a comfortable 3-0 win over Welfits Twisters.
Following are the results in detail: Models Eagles beat Harbour Blues 3-1 Sunny Sawant and Astha Gupta lost to Mohammed Sheikh and Pranjal Chimulkar 14-21, 16-21 Chinmay Kamat and Rahul Chandrashekar beat Tejas Prabhugaonkar and Eeshan Vernekar 21-16, 21-18 Parag Chauhan and Darwin Barretto beat Pratik Kamat and Mohammed Sheikh 21-18, 16-21, 21-16 Sunny Sawant beat Pratik Kamat 21-7, 27-25 Fomento Flamingos beat GBA Super Riders 3-2 Navneet Nasnodkar and Malti Dani lost to Seby Ferrao and Anushka Kuvelkar beat 13-21, 12-21 Krishnaraj Gauns and Pranav Silimkhan lost to Sharmad Mahajan and Prathit Naik 13-21, 13-21 Floyd Araujo and Navneet Nasnodkar beat Sharmad Mahajan and Seby Ferrao 21-13, 21-14 Floyd Araujo beat Sohan Kelekar 21-8, 21-6 Santosh Prabhudesai and Dr R Borkar beat Sudin Kyuvelkar and Rupchandra Humraskar 17-21, 21-13, 21-10 Fallary Warriors beat PBC Panthers 3-0 Chinmay Fallary and Anura Prabhudesai beat Mahesh Angle and Rhea Kossambe 21-15, 21-16 Yash Angle and Sanath Kamat beat Dhruv Angle and Varad Karekar 21-14, 21-8 Sandip Kanji and Chinmay Fallary beat Vishal Vernekar and Ankush Patil 21-12, 21-14 Caculo Chargers beat Welfits Twisters 3-0 Pankaj Naik and Marina beat Arnold Rodrigues and Hetal Kenaudikar 21-15, 21-14 Aniket Shenai and Saish Salelkar beat Chirag Narvekar and Ashish Narvekar 21-13, 21-7 Pankaj Naik and Krushnan Naik beat Luciano Soares and Mahesh Pawaskar 22-20, 21-19 yours sincerely Sandeep Heble Secretary, Panjim Badminton Club 9326129171
