MUMBAI, SEPT 27: Maharashtra retained the West Zone inter-state badminton titles by claiming the men's, women's and boys and girls titles at Bhopal on September 22-23. According to information available here, the men defeated MP 2-1, while the women and junior girls blanked Gujarat and MP respectively 2-0. The four teams will represent West Zone at the inter-state Nationals.Results (all final) Men: Maharashtra bt MP 3-1 (Sanket Shetty lost Sanjay Mishra 15-13 3-15 9-15; Vikrant Patwardhan & Mayur Tawde bt Prakash Dhakad & Vishal Chandwani 15-11 17-14; Amogh Kulkarni bt Nimish Goyal 15-11 17-14; Bhushan Akut & Sanket Shetty bt Sanjay Misra & Gigi Verghese 15-0 15-8).Boys: Maharashtra bt MP 2-1 (Vinayak Puthran lost Uttam Choubey 10-15 7-15; Varun Khanwalkar & Sameer Bhagwat bt Uttam Choubey ( P Saluja 15-8 14-17 15-1; Amar Mohite bt Prateek Saluja 15-5 15-10).Women: Maharashtra bt Gujarat 2-0 (Neha Gangolli bt Swati Moghe 12-10 11-9; Sim Sim Salaria & Nupura Bhide bt PalkanNagori & Swati Moghe 15-11 7-4).Girls: Maharashtra bt MP 2-0 (Neha Gangolli bt Neha Makwana 11-3 11-5; Sim Sim Salaria & Nupura Bhide bt Makwana & Upma Singh 15-10 8-15 15-5).
