NAGPUR’S pair of Piyush
Vinod Makhe and Manisha
Ashish Bhawatkar won the
mixed doubles title in the
Ceylon Masters International
Badminton Championship
that concluded at Colombo in
Sri Lanka recently.
In a keenly contested 40+
mixed doubles final, PiyushManisha pair, after losing the
first game, rallied back to beat
the pair of Satinder Malik and
Himani Punia Sharma in three
games 16-21, 23-21, 21-17 for
the title.
It may be recalled that both
Piyush and Manisha are members of Young Men’s Christians
Association (YM CA) badminton club in Civil Lines,
Nagpur.
They regularly train at the
YMCA courts to hone their
skills. YMCA members and
badminton enthusiasts have
congratulated the duo for stupendous success.