The host district claimed both the opening singles in the evening against the experienced Mumbai Suburban side. After Arindam set the ball rolling by defeating Bagga in three games, Nimish Goyal ousted Sanket Shetty 17-15, 15-6. But Thane were denied any further rope as the combined experience of veteran international Leroy D'Sa and Mayur Tawade won the first doubles for MSDBA.

Mayur Tawade then thrashed Bhushan Paithankar 15-1, 15-2 to set up the decider, where Tawade combined well with a recharged Bagga to ensure the Mumbai team's entry into the final.

Greater Mumbai also entered the final, with a facile 3-0 win over Pune.

Results:

Men's team championship (semis): Mumbai Suburban bt Thane City 3-2(Rajeev Bagga lost to Arindam Roy Choudhary 12-15 15-3 7-15; Sanket Shetty lost to Nimish Goyal 15-17 6-15; Leroy D'Sa/Bhushan Akut bt Rajiv Ganpule/Arindam Roy Choudhary 15-8 15-4; Mayur Tawade bt Bhushan Paithankar 15-1 15-2; Rajeev Bagga/Mayur Tawade bt Benhur Solomon/Bharat Bhosale 15-6 15-4);

Greater Mumbai bt Pune 3-0 (Vincent Lobo bt Vikrant Sarfare 15-2 15-6; Vivek Gautam bt Shantanu Nene 8-15 15-10 15-5; Vincent Lobo/Vikrant Patwardhan bt Ajoy Gandhi/Harshal Shimpi 15-6 15-6).

Quarter-finals: MSDBA bt Kolhapur 3-0 (Rajeev Bagga bt Yuvraj Chavan 15-3 15-7; Sanket Shetty bt Mahesh Sawant 15-1 15-3; Mayur Tawade/Leroy D'Sa bt Yuvraj Chavan/Mandar Kanitkar 15-5, 15-6); Pune bt Nagpur 3-0

(Shantanu Nene bt Jayendra Dhole 15-7 15-8; Harshal Shimpi bt Prasad Sadhankar 15-10 15-7; Nene/Hemant Hardikar bt Kirad Makade/Dhole 15-5 15-6);

Greater Mumbai bt Aurangabad 3-0 (Vikrant Patwardhan bt Rutuparna 15-10 15-10; Vivek Gautam bt Nitin Ingole 15-6 15-8; Vincent Lobo/Kunal Vaswani bt SureshAlayil/Rahul Gajre 15-1 15-3);

Thane w/o Sangli. Women's team championship (semis): Pune bt Nagpur 2-0 (Trupti Murgunde bt Rashmi Pimprikar 11-2 11-2; Manjusha Kanwar & Archana Deodhar bt Rashmi Pimprikar & Deepti Girdhar 15-1 15-5).