{"id":101949,"date":"2025-04-09T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=101949"},"modified":"2025-04-09T19:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:01:36","slug":"punit-advances-to-mens-singles-boys-u-18-semis-at-bandodkar-panjim-gymkhana-open-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=101949","title":{"rendered":"Punit advances to men\u2019s singles, boys U-18 semis at Bandodkar Panjim Gymkhana Open 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Punit Fadte continued his fine run in the ongoing Bandodkar Panjim Gymkhana Open 2025, breezing past number one seed Siddharth Nunes 6-1 in the men\u2019s singles, while securing another spot in the boys u-18 semifinals defeating Devaansh Naik 6-0.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joining Punit in the men\u2019s singles semis is Santosh Gorawar, who held off a spirited challenge from Tanay Amonkar to win the quarterfinal match 6-3. In earlier pre-quarterfinal action, Nagesh naik overcame Pankaj Nanoskar 6-4, while Prince D\u2019Silva and Raju Kundaikar advanced with wins over Lyndon Pinto (6-3) and Kedar Tari (6-2), respectively.<\/p>\n

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The ongoing state-ranking tournament saw Tithee Bhoomkar and partner Raju Kundaikar blank Junette Rodrigues and Kane Pereira 6-0 in the mixed doubles category. Asuntha Fleming and Nagesh Naik followed suit with a 6-0 win over Anindita Sarwate and Gary Steele, while Tomoyo Fujita and Prajat Halankar did the same against Lianne Ribeiro and Eugene D\u2019Souza.<\/p>\n

In the girls u-14 semis, Bhaavya Bhoomkar dominated Ahana 4-1, 4-0 to set up a much-anticipated final with Tvisha Sardesai, who edged past Urvi Panandikar 4-1, 4-3(4). Kyan Mavany entered the boys u-14 final with a 4-3(2), 4-0 win over Ethan Ataide.<\/p>\n

Categories featuring young tennis enthusiasts saw spirited play as well: in the girls u-10, Samaira Patil, Aaliya Metry and Subaghya Manda recorded comprehensive wins, while Jai Mehta pulled off a nail-biting 7-6(4) victory over Kabir Thapar in the boys u-10.<\/p>\n

In men\u2019s doubles, the duo of Rajaram Paiginkar and Kyan Mavany ousted Arhan Gaunkar and Krishna Volvoikar 6-0. Prajat Halankar and Avadhut Palekar got the better of Cherian Joseph and Sarvesh Bhobe 6-3.<\/p>\n

In the 45+ singles, Caetano Fernandes edged past Navin Cardoz in a thriller match, 6-4, 0-6, 10-6, to book a place in the final.<\/p>\n

The tournament continues at Panjim Gymkhana till April 13 with the finals approaching across key age groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Punit Fadte continued his fine run in the ongoing Bandodkar Panjim Gymkhana Open 2025, breezing past number one seed Siddharth Nunes 6-1 in the men\u2019s singles, while securing another spot in the boys u-18 semifinals defeating Devaansh Naik 6-0.\u00a0 Joining Punit in the men\u2019s singles semis is Santosh Gorawar, who held off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":101950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-101949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101949","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=101949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101951,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101949\/revisions\/101951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}