Bishop, Vincent's share honours in inter-school tennis tourney

Pune, Nov 30 (UNI) Harshawardhan Parmar piloted Bishop's High School to a fine double win in the boys under-18 category of the inter-school tennis championship played at the Law College ground today.

In the Bank of Maharashtra-sponsored inaugural championship, jointly organised by Vikhe Patil Memorial School and Abhinav English Medium High School, Pramar won the singles title at the expense of Vinayak Srivastav of Loyolas' and led his team to a thrilling 3-2 win in the team championship title.

St Vincent's, however, conquered major glory in this championship, which attracted six top schools, by winning the boys under-12 individual and team championship and boys under-14 singles title.

While Harsh Rane conquered his own teammate Vidhit Thakkar, 6-3, 6-0 for the individual title, he teamed up with Vimal Dev to help them win the doubles team championship.

Following are the results of all the finals: Boys Under 12 Singles: Harsh Rane (St. Vincent's) bt Vidhit Thhakar (St. Vincent's) 6-3, 6-0; Team Final:: St. Vincent's beat Bishop School 3-0 Harsh Rane bt Akshay Ganguli 6-0, Harsh Rane&Vimal Dev bt Rishab Ranawat&Mrunal Shah 6-4, 6-2; Vidit Thakkar bt Aditya Kumar 6-2; Boys Under-14: Singles final: Rakshay Thakkar (St Vincent's) beat Nakul Rawal (Bishops) 6-0, 6-2; Team Final: Loyola High School bt Abhinav English Medium 3-0: Rahul Kamthe bt Tanmay Vaidya 6-5, Om Dalvi&Yash Mokashi bt Aditya Kulkarni&Anish Venkatram 6-1; Om Dalvi bt Aditya Kulkarni 6-0;' Boy's Under 16: Anish Nawathe (Abhinav) bt Harshwardhan Dhole Patil (St. Vincent's) 6-2, 5-7, 7-5; Team Final: Vikhe Patil Memorial bt Abhinav High School 3-0: Tanay Jadhav bt Anish Nawathe 6-3, Tanay Jadhav&Ninad Mutatkar bt Anish Nawathe&Hrishikesh Kulkarni 6-4, Sumit Shinde bt Niranjan Natekar 6-0; Boys Under-18: Singles final: Harshawardhan Parmar (Bishop's) bt Vinayak Shrivastav (Loyola's) 7-5, 6-2; Team Finals: Bishop High School beat Loyola High School 3-2: Shyam bt Vinayak 6-2; Karan&Abhisekh Shah lost to Vinayak and Aditya 2-6, Vishal Udani lost to Aditya Bhave 1-6, Shyam&Harshawardhan bt Ajinkya&Manbir 6-1; Harshawardhan Parmar bt Ajinkya Kawatekar 6-1.

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