Patna, January 17, 2009
Bihar girls, boys and youth teams suffered crushing defeats in their stage I matches on the opening day of the 70th Junior and Youth National and inter-state table tennis championships in Surat on Saturday..
In the first team event match of the day, Maharashtra-A humiliated Bihar girls 3-0 in group A. Sweta Patre of Maharashtra-A thrashed Priya Kumari of Bihar 11-4, 11-7, 11-8. Shruti Talnikar (Maharashtra-A) crushed Suparna Joshi of Bihar 11-1, 11-7, 11-8. In doubles, the Maharashtra pair of Mallika and Sweta proved too strong for Bihar pair of Priya and Suparna 11-2, 11-3, 11-4.
Delhi boys proved too good for Bihar in a group C with a 3-0 victory. Sarthak Gandhi struggled to beat Bihar’s Lekh Raj 11-6, 12-10, 11-9. Pranshu Gupta of Delhi swamped Bihar’s Ankit Tarve 11-6, 11-7, 11-4. The Gupta pair of Delhi Pranshu and Utkarsh decimated Bihar combination of Lekh Raj and Ankit Tare 11-5, 11-8, 11-8 in the doubles to make it a 3-0 sweep.
The team event of the youth championships witnessed Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB)-A routing Bihar 3-0. Saurab Saha beat Bihar’s Lekh Raj 11-8, 11-6, 11-4 in the first singles. In the second singles Devesh Karia (PSPB-A) beat J Kishan Raj of Bihar 11-4, 11-5, 11-5 while in the third singles Mohit Verma (PSPB-A) slammed Ani Raj (Bihar) 11-5, 11-8, 11-6.
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