{"id":101901,"date":"2025-04-05T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=101901"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:08:49","slug":"bandodkar-panjim-gymkhana-tennis-open-2025-gets-underway-dmitry-advances-to-qf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=101901","title":{"rendered":"Bandodkar Panjim Gymkhana Tennis Open 2025 gets underway; Dmitry advances to QF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Goa Khabar : Dmitry Smirnov advanced to the quarter finals of the masters 45+ singles category of the second edition of the Bandodkar Panjim Gymkhana Tennis Open, which got underway at the Panjim Gymkhana in the state capital on Friday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dmitry defeated Anup Sardesai 6-0 in the pre-quarter final match. Earlier, Anup defeated Vinod Chandra 6-4 ahead of his encounter with Dmitry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In other matches in the masters 45+ singles category, James Darbar overcame a challenge from Brian Fernandes 6-2, while Rohan Lotlikar had an easy outing against his opponent Sunil Signapurkar, defeating the latter 6-1. In their respective matches against Suraj Pombra and Akhil Pavithran, Shubert Colaco and Navin Cardoz, respectively, did not break a sweat winning 6-0 against their rivals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In two closely contested matches in the same category, Kedar Tari overcame a tough challenge from Neenad Desai 7-6(5), while Naveen Daivajna pipped Sudhir Bavkar to the post in a close on-court encounter 7-6(7). In the only other match in the masters 45+ singles event played on the opening day, Nikunj Gupta defeated Saurabh Khanna 6-4.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ongoing Bandodkar Panjim Gymkhana Tennis Open 2025 has received a record 266 entries, making it the largest-ever turnout for an All-Goa tennis tournament. The state-level ranking event that kicked off from April 4 at the Panjim Gymkhana courts, honours the legacy of late Dayanand Bandodkar, Goa&#8217;s first Chief Minister. The tournament is scheduled to conclude on April 13, promising more than a week of exciting tennis matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : Dmitry Smirnov advanced to the quarter finals of the masters 45+ singles category of the second edition of the Bandodkar Panjim Gymkhana Tennis Open, which got underway at the Panjim Gymkhana in the state capital on Friday.\u00a0 Dmitry defeated Anup Sardesai 6-0 in the pre-quarter final match. Earlier, Anup defeated Vinod Chandra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":101902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-101901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101903,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101901\/revisions\/101903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}