City shuttler Kaushal Dharmamer, who underwent knee surgery in 2020, is elated to have won the men’s title at the Yonex-Sunrise VV Natu Memorial All-India Senior Ranking Badminton Tournament in Pune on October 22. In the men`s final at Pune, Dharmamer beat Rohan Gurbani 21-10, 21-16. He said the victory infused renewed confidence in him. "The win in Pune is special for more ways than one. It is the first title after my knee surgery [in 2020] and COVID-19. The last title I won was in 2019 in Maldives, after which I had few good performances, like a few All India finals and played the Premier Badminton League. But I had not won a title. I started playing only in September and played four back-to-back tournaments, but it was only in the fourth one in Pune that I won a title," said Dharmamer, who is employed with the Central Railways as a CC/TT (a merged post especially created for him of a commercial cum ticket clerk at Wadala station).

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