In the other quarterfinals, reigning champion Anthony Amal
Raj defeated Harmeet Desai 4-1 to earn the second semifinal meeting against No.
1 seed Soumyajit Ghosh, who beat Jubin Kumar 4-0.
Sharath took less than 20 minutes to dispose of Railway’s
Balgu despite the latter running the No. 6 seed close in the first game at
11-9. Serving well Sharath put on display a variety of strokes which brooked no
answer from Balgu. Gosh too dominated against Haryana’s Jubin Kumar but the No.
8 seed, despite showing glimpses of his fighting quality, surrendered.
The quarterfinal between Amalraj too proved a mismatch with
the reigning champion sounding a grim warning to his opponent in the semifinals
tomorrow. No. 2 Sanil Shetty did struggle a bit before overcoming his opponent
from Gujarat .
In women’s singles, top-seed Poulami Ghatak, No. 2 K.
Shamini and No. 3 Ankita Das, all of PSPB, and Delhi ’s Neha Aggarwal entered the semifinals.
Poulami, who beat Mousmi Paul 4-3 will take on Neha, who downed Divya Deshpande
4-0. In the other semifinal, Ankita, who beat Mallika Bhandarkar 4-3, will
clash with K. Shamini, who accounted for Pooja Sahasrabudhe 4-2.
Earlier, PSPB’s Soumyadeep Roy, seeded No. 3, Delhi ’s unseeded Manika
Batra and PSPB’s Madhurika Patkar made their exit. Roy played an aggressive game but the
unseeded Aman Balgu matched him to cash in on the chances to win 3-2.
Despite trailing 2-4, Roy seemed well on
course to extend Balgu in the sixth but several unforced errors by the erratic Roy foreclosed his options as Balgu won another extended
game to seal Roy ’s
fate.
No. 4 seed Madhurika lost to Neha Aggarwal 3-4 while another
Delhi girl and
No. 6 seed Manika Batra was dumped by unseeded Karnam Spoorthy from Andhra in
the first round. Spoorthy won 4-1 (8-11, 13-11, 11-7, 11-8, 12-10).
As for Manika, who lent a helping hand in Delhi ’s title win on Thursday, was sent
packing by Spoorthy. The girl from Andhra had been her nemesis and troubled
almost all big names, including Manika, in the past. And today was no
different.
The Results:
Men (QF): A Sharath Kamal (PSPB) bt Aman Balgu (RSPB) 4-0
(11-9, 11-13. 11-5. 11-5), Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) bt Jubin Kumar (Har) 4-0
(11-5, 11-6, 11-7, 11-6), A. Amal Raj (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (Guj) 4-1
(11-8, 11-5, 10-12, 11-7, 11-6), Sanil Shetty (PSPB) bt Devesh Karia 4-2 (11-6,
7-11, 9-11, 17-15, 11-2, 11-9); PQF: Soumyajit Ghosh bt L. Satheeswaran
4-1, Jubin Kumar bt Saurav Chakravarthy 4-3, A. Amalraj bt Sourav Saha 4-0,
Harmeet Desai bt T. Nitin 4-0, Aman Balgu bt Soumyadeep Roy 4-2, A. Sharath
Kamal bt Jignesh Jaiswal 4-0, Devesh Karia bt G. Sathiyan 4-2, Sanil Shetty bt
Sougatha Sarkar 4-1.
Women (QF): Poulami Ghatak (PSPB) bt Mousmi Paul (WB) 4-3
(11-8, 6-11, 11-9, 11-2, 8-11, 9-11, 11-3, Neha Aggarwal (Del) bt Divya
Deshpande (Mah-A) 4-0 (15-13, 11-6, 11-8, 11-3); Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Mallika
Bhandarkar (Mah-B) 4-0 (11-7, 11-4, 11-3, 11-8), K. Shamini (PSPB) bt Pooja Sahasrabudhe
(PSPB) 4-2 (11-7, 11-9, 3-11, 10-12, 11-1, 11-4); PQF: Poulami Ghatak bt
Takeme Sarkar 4-2, Mousmi Pal bt Mamata Prabhu 4-3, Divya Deshpande bt Reeth
Rishya 4-3, Neha Aggarwal bt Madhurika Patkar 4-3, Ankita Das bt Soumi Mandal
4-1, Mallika Bhandarkar bt K. Spoorthy 4-3, Pooja Sahasrabhudhe bt Ayhika
Mukherjee 4-3, K. Shamini bt Suthirtha Mukherjee 4-2.
A TTFI Press release
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