Top women seeds fall by wayside in North Zone Table Tennis Championships

New Delhi, November 28, 2012:  Some of the top seeds in the men section, including Nos. 5, 6 and 7 Anirban Ghosh, Sourav Chakraborty and Subhajit Saha fell by the wayside in the ongoing National Ranking (North Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the Thyagraj Stadium here today.

Joining their ranks from the women’s category were No. 3 Ankita Das, No. 4 Pooja Sahasrabuddhie, No. 6 Divya Deshpande, No. 7 Moushumi Paul and No. 8 Manika Batra.  All of them failed to go beyond the first round.

Howoever, Soumyadeep Roy, who is seeded No. 1 here, made most of the absence of Soumyajit Ghosh and Anthony Amalraj, to progress to the quarterfinals. The PSPB player defeated Mohit Verma of Haryana 11-7, 11-9, 11-6, 11-7 and will now take on G. Sathyan, also of PSPB, in the quarters.

Similarly, top women seed Poulomi Ghatak sailed smoothly into the quarterfinals, beating Narasimha Priya in a gruelling encounter where the PSPB girl gave a good fight. Poulomi outlasted her rival in a 85-minute game to win 4-3 (11-5, 11-8, 6-11, 9-11, 20-22, 12-10, 11-9).

While starting his campaign Narasimha Priya palyed a superb wait-and-watch game. Despite losing the first two games, she would never give up and with great determination she took the third and fourth games. This was Poulomi pulled up her socks and wore her opponent out to take the next three for the match. Luckily, she will next meet qualifier Suthirtha Mukherjee in the quarterfinals. But Poulomi cannot afford to be slack if she aims at winning the singles title.

Delhi girl Manika Batra, whose form has seen a dip this season, yet again failed to meet the expectations and went down to qualifier Suthirtha Mukherjee from West Bengal qualifier Suthirtha Mukherjee. The West Bengal girl won 10-12, 11-5, 8-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-8.  Manika could not sustain the fine push-and-prod game of  Suthirtha who controlled the match throughout.

Even Pooja had to struggle against Mamata Prabhu of Deena Bank. The latter showed exemplary courage in countering her better-known opponent from PSPB to topple her. Mamata won 11-8, 8-11, 11-5, 11-6, 12-14, 14-12. 

 The two PSPB girls, Divya and Moushumi, were having an off day today as they could not counter their rivals despite stretching a bit. Shreya Ghosh of RSPB defeated Divya 4-3 (11-3, 7-11, 8-11, 10-12, 6-11, 12-10, 11-8) while Moushumi lost to Delhi’s Neha Aggarwal. The Delhi girl won 11-8, 11-6, 11-8, 11-9.  Neha will now take on in the quarterfinals No. 2 seed K. Shamini who accounted for Reeth Rishya of PSPB in the second round.  

Men’s Singles: Main Draw:  First Round

Sameera Kumar D [ TN ]  Bt    Prabhakaran E [ RSPB ]    4 - 2  (-6, -11, 11, 2, 5, 10)

 Shreyal Talang [ KNT ]  Bt    Lalruatfela R [ MIZ ]    4 - 0  (8, 5, 7, 8)

 Mohit Verma [ HRN ]  Bt    Devdatta Phadnavis [ MHR ]    4 - 2  (9, 3, -9, -9, 5, 6)

Zubin Taraporewala [ DB ]  Bt    Himanshu Jindal [ DLI ]    4 - 2  (7, 6, -4, -8, 4, 6)

 Sachin L [ RSPB ]  Bt    Saidul Alam Ahmed [ ASM ]    4 - 0  (6, 9, 5, 5)

Martand Biniwale [ MHR ]  Bt    Ravi Joshi [ LIC ]    4 - 0  (4, 8, 8, 7)

 Abhishek Yadav [ PSPB A ]  Bt    Somanath Ghosh [ AP ]    4 - 1  (8, -9, 10, 7, 9)

 Jignesh Jaiswal [ GUJ ]  Bt    Abishek Jaggi [ DLI ]    4 - 0  (5, 5, 5, 7)

 Sushmit Sriram [ AAI ]  Bt    Birupakha Saha [ NB ]    4 - 0  (5, 6, 3, 5)

 Anirban Nandi [ RSPB ]  Bt    Sunand Vasan [ KNT ]    4 - 0  (3, 5, 6, 7)

 Dharmaraj Rana [ ESIC ]  Bt    Anirudh K [ TN ]    4 - 0  (3, 9, 10, 6)

Arpith Bhopalkar [ KNT ]  Bt    Arjun Ghosh [ WB ]    4 - 2  (-9, 6, 8, 10, -8, 5)

 Noel Pinto [ RSPB ]  Bt    Santosh A [ CG ]    4 - 1  (-11, 12, 7, 10, 3)

 Sivananda Seshadri [ TN ]  Bt    Rohit Chakraborty [ LIC ]    4 - 0  (6, 4, 8, 4)

 Aman Balgu [ RSPB ]  Bt    Ravindra Kotiyan [ MHR ]    4 - 0  (5, 6, 11, 6)

 Raj Mondal [ AAI ]  Bt    Utkarsh Gupta [ DLI ]    4 - 1  (-8, 10, 4, 8, 10)

 Sayan Paul Roy [ CRSCB ]  Bt    Vivek Bhargava [ RAJ ]    4 - 1  (5, 10, 8, -9, 10)

Souvik Kar [ RSPB ]  Bt    Souvik Roy [ RBI ]    4 - 3  (11, -6, -10, -10, 10, 7, 5)

 Sudhanshu Grover [ PSPB A ]  Bt    Rohan Joshi [ MP ]    4 - 0  (7, 8, 6, 3)

 Nithin Thiruvengadam [ AAI ]  Bt    Anirban Roy Choudhary [ KNT ]    4 - 0  (7, 3, 7, 9)

 Sourav Saha [ PSPB ]  Bt    Vaneet Chopra [ PNJ ]    4 - 0  (4, 4, 7, 5)

 Sathiswaran L [ LIC ]  Bt    Snehasis Bhattacharya [ WB ]    4 - 1  (5, 8, -9, 1, 5)

 Souvik Basu Roy [ RSPB ]  Bt    Sabhay Virmani [ DLI ]    4 - 1  (7, -11, 5, 8, 6)

JUNIOR GIRLS : MAIN DRAW: FIRST ROUND

Sutirtha Mukherjee [ WB ]  Bt    Amrutha Pushpak [ IB ]   ( 3 - 0  (4, 5, 7) )

 Sreeja A [ AP ]  Bt    Raktima Paul [ NB ]    3 - 0  (7, 4, 7)

 Sangita Mahadani [ WB ]  Bt    Oishwaryya Deb [ NB ]    3 - 1  (-5, 3, 8, 7)

 Archana Kamath [ KNT ]  Bt    Narasimha Priya S [ PSPB ]    3 - 2  (-9, 9, -7, 9, 8)

 Sumana Saha [ PSPB ]  Bt   BYE [ - ]    3 - 1  (12, -5, 9, 10)

 Sagarika Mukherjee [ NB ]  Bt    Ria Dutta [ WB ]    3 - 0  (8, 8, 7)

 Yukti Roshni R. Ke [ TN ]  Bt    Varuni Jaiswal [ AP ]    3 - 1  (7, 12, -8, 12)

 Manika Batra [ DLI ]  Bt    Helly Shah [ GUJ ]    3 - 0  (6, 6, 8)

 Mallika Bhandarkar [ AI ]  Bt    Moumita Dutta [ WB ]    3 - 0  (5, 11, 4)

 Naina A [ AP ]  Bt    Riti Shankar [ DLI ]    3 - 0  (8, 9, 9)

 Frenaz Chipia [ DB ]  Bt    Maria Rony [ KRL ]    3 - 0  (7, 7, 4)

 Reeth Rishya T [ PSPB ]  Bt    Sayani Bose [ NB ]    3 - 1  (-8, 6, 4, 8)

 Ayhika Mukherjee [ WB ]  Bt    Jagriti Virmani [ DLI ]    3 - 0  (4, 8, 3)

 Anuska Dutta [ NB ]  Bt    Vaishali K V V [ AP ]    3 - 1  (3, -7, 6, 8)

 Harshavardhini C R [ TN ]  Bt    Priyadarshini Das [ WB ]    3 - 0  (10, 3, 5)

 Karnam Spoorthy [ AAI ]  Bt    Srushti Haleangadi [ MHR ]    3 - 0  (8, 9, 8)

MEN’S SINGLES :  ROUND 2

Soumyadeep Roy [ PSPB ]  Bt    Sameera Kumar D [ TN ]    4 - 0  (6, 2, 9, 5)

 Mohit Verma [ HRN ]  Bt    Shreyal Talang [ KNT ]    4 - 0  (7, 9, 6, 7)

 Sougata Sarkar [ LIC ]  Bt    Zubin Taraporewala [ DB ]    4 - 2  (-10, 5, -10, 3, 7, 5)

 Sathiyan G [ PSPB ]  Bt    Sachin L [ RSPB ]    4 - 0  (5, 3, 9, 8)

 Martand Biniwale [ MHR ]  Bt    Anirban Ghosh [ WB ]    4 - 0  (9, 7, 9, 5)

 Abhishek Yadav [ PSPB A ]  Bt    Jignesh Jaiswal [ GUJ ]    4 - 3  (9, -7, 9, -9, -10, 10, 11)

 Anirban Nandi [ RSPB ]  Bt    Sushmit Sriram [ AAI ]    4 - 1  (3, -8, 10, 7, 9)

 Harmeet Desai [ PSPB ]  Bt    Dharmaraj Rana [ ESIC ]    4 - 2  (-10, 3, 11, 5, -10, 7)

Jubin Kumar [ PSPB ]  Bt    Arpith Bhopalkar [ KNT ]    4 - 0  (7, 5, 3, 6)

 Sivananda Seshadri [ TN ]  Bt    Noel Pinto [ RSPB ]    4 - 2  (7, 7, -4, -9, 8, 7)

 Aman Balgu [ RSPB ]  Bt    Raj Mondal [ AAI ]    4 - 0  (5, 4, 6, 9)

 Sourav Charkaborty [ PSPB ]  Bt    Sayan Paul Roy [ CRSCB ]    4 - 0  (9, 13, 9, 5)

 Subhajit Saha [ PSPB ]  Bt    Souvik Kar [ RSPB ]    4 - 0  (7, 7, 7, 5)

 Nithin Thiruvengadam [ AAI ]  Bt    Sudhanshu Grover [ PSPB A ]    4 - 1  (-12, 7, 9, 8, 5)

 Sathiswaran L [ LIC ]  Bt    Sourav Saha [ PSPB ]    4 - 2  (-8, 9, 3, 5, -3, 4)

 Sanil Shetty [ PSPB ]  Bt    Souvik Basu Roy [ RSPB ]    4 - 1  (7, 4, -7, 3, 4)

MEN’S SINGLES : PRE QUARTER FINALS

Soumyadeep Roy [ PSPB ]  Bt    Mohit Verma [ HRN ]    4 - 1  (11, 7, -9, 8, 10)

 Sathiyan G [ PSPB ]  Bt    Sougata Sarkar [ LIC ]    4 - 1  (10, -15, 5, 11, 5)

 Martand Biniwale [ MHR ]  Bt    Abhishek Yadav [ PSPB A ]    4 - 2  (-3, -6, 6, 6, 12, 9)

 Harmeet Desai [ PSPB ]  Bt    Anirban Nandi [ RSPB ]    4 - 1  (2, -8, 9, 8, 11)

Jubin Kumar [ PSPB ]  Bt    Sivananda Seshadri [ TN ]    4 - 1  (8, 9, -9, 3, 2)

 Aman Balgu [ RSPB ]  Bt    Sourav Charkaborty [ PSPB ]    4 - 3  (9, -11, 4, -9, 9, -10, 9)

 Nithin Thiruvengadam [ AAI ]  Bt    Subhajit Saha [ PSPB ]    4 - 3  (8, -7, 9, -7, -8, 12, 7)

 Sanil Shetty [ PSPB ]  Bt    Sathiswaran L [ LIC ]    4 - 3  (4, -5, -7, -4, 13, 7, 9)

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