Corporate badminton

KATHMANDU: Biplab Kanti Bose and Abhishek Bose began the third Annapurna Corporate Badminton with a win here on Tuesday. In the Executive Doubles section, they defeated the pair of Sudip Budhathoki and Khagendra Regmi 21-16, 19-21, 21-17. Also winning the opening day matches were Dutta Bahadur Thapa/Narayan Prasad Gautam, Raj Kumar Shrestha/Ram Chandra Giri, Umesh KC/Bibek KC, Niraj Rai/Suraj Lohani, Siddhartha Sharma/Amrit Malla, Rabi Thapa/Anoj Khatri, Rupesh Thapa/Aditya Bhattarai, Babu Raja Bajracharya/Gautam Shakya, Adars Bista/Binod Kumar Basnet, Hari Bhandari/Prakash Bhattarai, and Milan Thapa/Sukra Pakhrin. Around 350 players are competing in six different categories.