Binaifer had earlier accounted for Trina Banerjee (Ruia) and Priti Kanyalkar (Home Science) in the second and third rounds, after the individual championship got under way this morning. Binaifer is drawn to meet defending champion and top seed Sampada Shetye of Joshi Bedekar College, who got a walkover in the third round, in the quarters.

Results

Men's singles (2nd round): Shahezad Gandhi (Hinduja) bt Ashish Sawant (Somaiya Science) 15-17 15-7 15-7; Rahul Parab (Podar) bt Prashant D'Costa 15-5 15-13; Prashant Nawale (Somaiya Science) bt Siddharth Sarkar (Raheja) 15-10 15-17 15-13; Varif Vazifdar (HR) bt Siddharth Kandpite (Pillai) 15-2 15-7; Chinmay Orpe (MLDC) bt Nilesh Solanki (Raheja) 15-5 15-1; Ojas Vakil (NM) bt Jayesh Solanki (AP Comm) 15-115-1; Imran Maindargi (Maharashtra) bt Soumen Roy (Pillai) 15-2 15-5; Manvendra Kane (Govt Law) bt Anurag Prasad (Bhavan's) 15-1 15-4; Kedar Ambekar (Somaiya Science) bt Gopal Vipurthi (Acharya) 15-1 15-5; Devang Mehta (Khandwala) bt Johann Daruwalla (Burhani) 15-4 15-7

Women's singles (4th round): Binaifer Bharucha (Xavier's) bt Koneri Gandha (NM) 11-2 11-0; 3rd round: Koneri Gandha (NM) bt CM Pereira (Sathaye) 11-1 11-0; Binaifer Bharucha (Xavier's) bt Priti Kanyalkar (Home Science) 11-1 11-1; 2nd round: Kajal Puri (Mithibai) bt Priya Nathani (Jaihind) 11-0 11-1; Vidya Swaminathan (Home Science) bt Sebalion Quadros (Raheja) 11-0 11-2; Asmita Damle (NKT) w/o Sim Sim Salaria (Mithibai); Sanjeeta Chawla (Khalsa) bt Kranti Raul (Ruparel) 11-7 11-1; Sampada Shetye (Joshi Bedekar) bt Rameet Chandok (Chetana) 11-0 11-1; CM Pereira (Sathaye) w/o Anuradha Chauhan (Model); Uma Madhavan (Podar) bt Kamini Jasani (Raheja) 11-1 11-2; Priti Kanyalkar (Home Science) bt Jayashri Shetty (CK Thakur) 11-3 11-3; PujaKotwani (HR) w/o L Puja (MMK); Binaifer Bharucha (Xavier's) bt Trina Banerjee (Ruia) 11-0 11-0; Kirti Shridhar (Khalsa) w/o Priti Dhuri (Somaiya Science); Gayatri Nayak (Somaiya) w/o Avanti Gade (Sydenham); Tanya Maizarkar (SIES) bt Sheetal Mangaonkar (Vartak) 11-6 11-8; Shilpa Jaising (HR) bt Jacqueline D'Souza (Tolani) 11-2 11-1; Swati Nair (Sydenham) bt Shilpa Thakur (Kirti) 11-0 11-0

CORRECTION: In yesterday's report, it was wrongly mentioned that Chetana and SIES Colleges had won their women team championship matches against Khalsa and NM respectively. In fact, Khalsa bt Chetana 2-1, and NM bt SIES 2-1. The error is regretted.