Dubai: Roby Varghese scored a hard-fought victory over Sibi Chandrabhanu in the men's singles of the India Club Western Union UAE Open Badminton tournament.
Varghese, won the first set 15-12. Chandrabhanu fought back to win the second set 5-15. However, Varghese, keeping his cool got the better of Chandrabhanu in the third to win 15-11 and win the match.
The senior veteran mixed doubles between Suresh Kumar and Sangeetha Bhatia against Hemraj and Preethi Menon was also a well-fought one.
Suresh and Sangeetha won 15-8, 10-15, 15-10.
In another match, A. K. Prakashan and Hemraj combined together to beat Thomas Philip and M. D. Prakash 15-3, 15-4.
Thomas Karekkatt and Yousuf scored an easy win over Ajit Madkaikar and Arnold Bernard 15-1, 15-3.
Other results:
Men's doubles: Trevor Pearson / Najeeb bt Mohammad I. Maricar / Anilesh Kumar 15-0, 15-8, Abdul Shafeeq / Haneefa Sidheek bt Dhananjay / Gibu 15-3, 15-5 James Vargheese / Manoj bt Ebrahim Sadru / Wales Thomas 15-6, 15-3, James Vargheese / Manoj bt Deo C. Dhcurro / Ariel Garcia 15-0, 15-2.
Veteran doubles
Abdul Salam A. A. / Arun Poovaiah bt Lal Sawlani / Mohammad Yousef 15-5, 15-2, Pradeep Laljani / Sunil Singh bt Ravi Mohan / Pritviraj 15-9, 15-9.
Senior Veteran singles: Mohammad Youseph bt Saseendran M. K. 15-10, 15-1.
Senior Veteran doubles
Mohammad Azam / Suresh Kumar bt Venugopal K. / Sashi Kumar 15-2, 15-4.
Senior Veteran mixed doubles: A. K. Prakashan / Sita Haridas bt Mohammad Azam / Reshma Bhatia 15-11, 15-7.
