ONGC outwit BPCL for men's crown

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) trumped Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) 3-1 in the final of the men’s team championship at the 38th PSPB inter-unit badminton tournament here at the Karnataka Badminton Association courts on Tuesday.

Results: Team championship: Men's: Final: ONGC bt BPCL: 3-1 (Saurabh Verma lt to R M V Gurusai Dutt 21-17, 21-13; H S Prannoy bt Sameer Verma 21-14, 15-21, 21-19; Satwick Sairaj/Krishna Prasad bt Aditya Joshi/Sameer Verma 17-21, 21-9, 21-10; Sai Praneeth bt Harsheel Dani 21-12, 21-16)
Third-place: GAIL India Ltd bt Indian Oil Corporation Ltd: 3-1 (Siril Verma bt Ajay Jayaram 21-14, 21-12; Arsalan Naqvi lt to K Srikanth 21-13, 21-10; Siril Verma/Shreyansh Jaiswal bt Sri Krishna/Vishnu Goud 22-24, 21-12, 21-18; Shreyansh Jaiswal bt Arintap Dasgupta 21-17, 21-16)
Semifinal: BPCL bt GAIL India Ltd: 3-0 (Harsheel Dani bt Shreyansh Jaiswal 21-10, 21-17; Sameer Verma bt Arshalan Naqvi 21-12, 21-16; Harsheel Dani/Aditya Joshi bt Shreyansh Jaiswal/Siril Verma 21-17, 19-21, 21-18)
ONGC bt IOCL: 3-1 (H S Prannoy lt to K Srikanth 15-21, 21-13, 21-17; B Sai Praneeth bt Ajay Jayaram 21-15, 21-14; B Sai Praneeth/Pranav J Chopra bt K Srikanth/Arun Vishnu 19-21, 21-7, 21-14; Saurabh Verma bt Arintap Dasgupta 21-15, 21-15)
Women's: Final: BPCL bt ONGC: 2-1 (P V Sindhu bt Rituparna Das 21-10, 21-8; Saina Nehwal/P V Sindhu lt to Ashwini Ponnappa/Rituparna Das 21-10, 21-14; Saina Nehwal bt Arundhati Pantawane 21-18, 21-16).
Veterans: Final: BPCL A bt GAIL India Limited: 2-0 (Bhushan Akut bt Capt Rajkumar 18-21, 21-15, 21-14; Bhushan Akut/George Thomas bt Capt Rajkumar/Ajay Jindal 21-17, 21-11)
Third-place: HPCL bt ONGC: 2-0 (J P Chowdary bt R K Mishra 24-22, 21-17; J P Chowdary/R V Deshmukh bt R K Mishra/Dileep Sukhtankar 14-21, 21-16, 21-15)
Semifinal: GAIL India Ltd bt ONGC: 2-0 (Captain Rajkumar bt R K Mishra 22-20, 21-9; Ajay Jindal/Raj Kumar bt R K Mishra/Sukhtankar 21-15, 21-17)
BPCL A bt HPCL: 2-0 (George Thomas bt B Gurung 21-15, 21-12; Bhushan Akut/Milind Ghate bt J P Choudhary/R V Deshmukh 21-16, 21-12)