KOLHAPUR
OPEN SQUASH TOURNAMENT Handicap Individual, Doubles & Team Event
(at Residency Club, Kolhapur )
:
7-4-2000
Mahendra Kapadia from Kolhapur (Winner in Handicap Individual
Event) receiving the trophy from Rahul Gopal (Inspector General of
Kolhapur), with Kumar Shirgaokar, Nitin Kareer (Collector Sangli District)
& Mahendra
Agarwal (Founder Director, ISP) at the prize distribution ceremony
held at Residency Club, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Doubles Final: Amit Chinoy & Carl Bokdawala beat Mahendra Agarwal & C.S.Pawar
13-15/15-12/15-13
Semi Final:
Mahendra Agarwal & C.S.Pawar beat Avinash Bhavnani & Vishal Kapoor
15-14/14-15/15-14
Amit Chinoy & Carl Bokdawala beat Niraj Shirgaokar & Rajesh
Sonawane 15-13/13-15/17-15
Team Event: Final
ISP BEAT KOLHAPUR 3-2
Santosh More lost to Amit Chinoy 17-21
Rajesh Sonawane beat Carl Bokdawala 21-12
Vinay Bajaj beat Mihir Kapoor 21-12
Chandrakant Pawar lost to Niraj Shirgaokar 20-21
Avinash Bhavnani beat Karan Ghorpade 21-13
Kapadia wins handicap squash (Article in Mid-Day : 11-4-2000)
FORTY five-year-old
Mahendra Kapadia, a local player from Kolhapur, raised plenty of cheer
when he emerged triumphant in the handicap singles event of the inaugural
Kolhapur Open Squash Tournament, sponsored by the Ugar Sugar Works and the
Indian Squash Professionals.
In the final played on
the 150-year-old squash court of the Residency Club, Kapadia took full
advantage of the handicap provided to him to defeat Mumbai’s Mihir
Kapoor 15-5, 15-8, 15-14. In the process, Kapadia justified the efforts of
the SRAM towards popularizing the game in the rest of the state. The
doubles title was won by Mumbai’s Karl Bokdawala and Amit Chinoy, who
got the better of city mates Chandrakant Pawar and Mahendra Agarwal 15-13,
13-15, 15-14.
The Indian Squash
Professionals defeated Kolhapur 3-2 to win the team event, which was
played over 21 points. According to ISP’s Mahendra Agarwal, the
tournament, the first of its kind in Kolhapur, received great response and
also a commitment towards hosting it for years to come. Sangli, a
neighbouring district, which possesses a squash court, has also shown
interest towards hosting tournament. Rahul Gopal, the IG of Kolhapur was
the chief guest and gave away the prizes.
Kapadia
Champ (Article in Indian Express, Mumbai
: 12/4/2000)
Forty-Five year old
Mahendra Kapadia, a local player from Kolhapur, a local player, emerged
triumphant in the handicap singles event of the inaugural Kolhapur Open
Squash Tournament, sponsored by the Ugar Sugar Works and Indian Squash
Professionals.
In the final played on
the 150-year old squash court of the Residency Club, Kapadia took full
advantage of the handicap provided to him to defeat Mumbai’s Mihir
Kapoor 15-5, 15-8, 15-14.
The doubles title was
won by Mumbai’s Carl Bokdawala and Amit Chinoy, who got the better of
city mates Chandrakant Pawar and Mahendra Agarwal 15-13, 13-15, 15-14,
according to information received here.
Three
Mumbai players advance (Article in Sunday Mid-Day :
9/4/2000)
Vinay Bajaj, Vishal
Kapoor and Avinash Bhavnani advanced into the second round of the Kolhapur
Open Squash Tournament, jointly sponsored by the Ugar Sugar Works and the
Indian Squash Professionals, according to information received.
Playing at the 150-year
old squash courts of the Residency Club, Kolhapur, Vishal defeated
Sangli’s Suresh Shetty 15-13, 15-14, while Bhavnani beat Varun Jain
15-11, 15-12. Bajaj recovered to beat Kolhapur’s Bajaj recovered to beat
Kolhapur’s Bharat Patil 13-15, 15-14, 15-13.
Squash
tourney at Kolhapur in April (Article in Times of India,
Mumbai : 29/03/2000)
The town of Kolhapur
will get its first taste of competitive squash when the Kolhapur Open, a
handicap and open team event, will be staged at the Residency Club,
Kolhapur from April 7 to 9.
It is being sponsored
jointly by the Ugar Sugar Works Ltd. And the Indian squash professionals,
who are organizing it under the auspices of the Squash Rackets Association
of Maharashtra.
There will be a match
between a Kolhapur team and an ISP team. The members of the Kolhapur team
are: Niraj Shirgaokar, Paul Ferreira, Avinash Bhavnani, Samir Date, Manoj
Gudi and Mahendra Agarwal (reserve). The ISP team is: Chandrakant Pawar,
Cyrus Poncha, Amit Chinoy, Carl Bokdawala, Vinay Bajaj and Rajesh Sonawane
(reserve). The last date for entries is April 5. Entries should be
forwarded to Residency Club (0231-651477 / 6611424) or SB Resellers
0231-653365 (fax). 0
Mihir,
Niraj advance (Article in
Indian Express, Mumbai : 10/4/2000)
Mihir Kapoor and Niraj
Shirgaokar were the only two players from Mumbai to advance to the
semi-finals in the handicap singles event of the Kolhapur Open squash
tournament at the Residency Club, Kolhapur.
According to
information reaching here on Sunday, Mihir defeated Kolhapur’s Ajit
Kulkarni 12-15, 15-14, 15-14 and Shirgaokar beat Karan Ghorpade of
Kolhapur 14-15, 15-14, 15-13.
Kolhapur
Open squash tournament (Article in Indian Express,
Mumbai : 6/4/2000)
Indian squash
professionals, under the auspices of the Squash Racquets Association of
Maharashtra, has Organised the Kolhapur Open Tournament, a handicap team
and open event.
The tournament will be
sponsored jointly Ugar Sugar Works Ltd and the ISP at the Residency Club,
Kolhapur, from April 7 to 9 and will have two events, a handicap open
event, followed by a team event which will involve a Kolhapur team, an ISP
team and a team from the Residency Club.
Kapadia
wins title (Article in Asian Age, Mumbai :
12/04/2000)
Forty-five
years old Mahendra Kapadia, a local player from Kolhapur, raised plenty of
cheer when he emerged triumphant in the handicap singles event of the
inaugural Kolhapur Open squash tournament, sponsored by the Ugar Sugar
works and the Indian squash professionals. In the final played on the
150-years-old squash court of the Residency Club.
Kapadia
took full advantage of the handicap provided to him to defeat Mumbai’s
Mihir Kapoor 15-5, 15-8, 15-14. In the process, Kapadia justified the
efforts of the SRAM towards popularizing the game in the rest of the
state.
