Seeded boys hurry into pre-quarters; top-seeded girls get byes

Rajahmundry, December 26, 2014: Manav Thakkar led the top eight seeded brigade into the Sub-Junior Boys’ pre-quarterfinals of the 76th Cadet and Sub-Junior National Table Tennis Championships at the Cherukuri Convention Centre here today.

Top-seed Manav Thakkar easily beat qualifier Rohit Karam of Manipur for a clear 3-0 victory while No. 2 seed Manush Shah downed another qualifier Nitin Singh from Uttarakhand by the same margin. It was the same case with No. 4 Seth Sarthak of UP, who downed Mohsin Ahmed, No. 5 Snehit Suravajjula of Telangana, who won against Punjab’s Sarthak Thakur, and eighth seed Ashwin Subramanian of Maharashtra who posted also posted a 3-0 win over Shaurya Gupta of Chandigarh and No. 7 seed Shaurya Pednekar of Maharashtra scored a 3-0 triumph over Kabir Jain from MP.

However, the No. 6 seed from Delhi, Parth Virmani struggled a bit before overcoming Saroj Siril of Telangana. The Delhi boy won 11-9, 10-12, 12-10, 11-7. All the winners will play the pre-quarterfinals tonight and three rounds, from quarterfinals onwards, on the concluding day tomorrow.

But some of the matches between qualifiers had spectators riveted to their seats as the one between Gujarat’s Kaushal Bhatt and Maharashtra B’s Gaurav Lohaparte in which the former emerged winners with a 3-2 verdict. Kaushal struggled to find his feet in the first game after being stretched by his opponent only to lose his second game. Then Kaushal took the next only to concede the next before winning the fifth with the least margin in the top half.

Delhi’s Yashansh Malik had everything going for him in his match against Maharashtra B’s Tanmay Rane when he went 2-1 up. But in the fourth the momentum shifted with the Maharashtra boy who went on to win the fifth for 6-11, 11-6, 7-11, 11-8, 11-6.

Then Kerala boy Mohammad Inush put up a brave fight against Kashish Bhargava of Delhi to win the match 11-9, 4-11, 11-8, 3-11, 11-8. In this match too, the Kerala boy was 2-1 up but slackened a bit to allow the Delhi boy level the match 2-2. However, in the end Inush played brilliantly when it mattered the most to sew his berth in the pre-quarters where he will take on PSPBA’s Harsh Srivastava who had an easy outing against Goa’s Karthik Iyer.

Unlike in the Sub-Junior Boys section, the top eight seeds in Sub-Junior Girls got first round byes and will be seen in action from round two today. The main draw events in both the Cadet Boys and Cadet Girls sections have begun and they will play the pre-quarters tonight.

The Results:

Sub Junior Boys   (1st round):

Manav Thakkar (PSPB-A) bt Karam Rohit (MNP) 11-1, 11-4, 11-4, Sur Roy Siddhant (NB) bt Joshi Roshan (MP) 8-11, 12-10, 15-13, 11-7, Chhabra Angad Singh (DLI) bt Bhaavanaka Vathsin (TELG) 11-8, 11-4, 13-11, Kannan Shriram (TN) bt T. Saji Ajins (KRL) 11-7, 7-11, 11-7, 11-6, Regan Albuquerque 11-7, 7-11, 11-5, 11-2, Goel Shubh (DLI) bt Vijay Kumar Malesh (TN) 8-11, 11-3, 10-12, 11-9, 12-10, Parekh Siddhant (GOA) bt Ishaan Hingorani (GUJ) 11-8, 11-2, 11-7, Subramanian Ashwin (MHR-A) bt Shaurya Gupta (CHD) 11-6, 11-6, 11-2, Snehit Suravajjula (TELG) bt Sarthak Thakur (PUN) 11-8, 11-3, 11-6, Bhatt Kaushl (GUJ) bt Lohaparte Gaurav (MHR-B) 12-10, 6-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-9, Lamba Shivjit Singh (DLI) bt Gowthaman Sagar Piyus (TN) 11-9, 1-4, 11-9, Bhattacharjee Jayabrata (NB) bt P.Jayasurya (AP) 11-4, 11-8, 11-9, Zamliana John (PSPB-A) bt Raj Neeraj (KNT) 11-6, 11-8, 11-9, Gourang Shakreja (HRN) bt Mahipal Sankket (TN) 11-6, 11-9, 11-7

Seth Sarthak (UP) bt Ahmed Moshin (ASM) 11-8, 11-4, 11-6, Jain Anukram (PSPB-A) bt M.Eshwararao (ODS) 11-4, 11-8, 11-6, Gurumurthy Chithresh (TN) bt Nalhotra Hrisshsikesh (MHR-A) 6-11, 11-6, 11-7, 12-10, Jain Pyas (DLI) bt Srivastava Diyyansh (KNT) 11-6, 11-9, 4-11, 11-5

Jamadagni Rohan (KNT) bt Bodiwala Shivam (GUJ) 11-1, 8-11, 11-9, 11-5, DO Rosario Weslet (GOA) bt Dutta Manik (HRN) 11-5, 11-8, 7-11, 11-7, Somaiya Chinmaya Kapil (PSPB-A) bt Gangul Ayan (NB) 6-11, 11-6, 15-13, 12-10, Bokil Sanat (MHR-B) bt Jawahar Karan (TN) 11-5, 11-5, 11-6

Virmani Parth (DLI) bt Pala Parthi Saroj Siril (TELG) 11-9, 10-12, 12-10, 11-7, Pednekar Shaurya (MHR-A) bt Jain Akbar (MP) 11-6, 11-2, 11-5, Md. Inush (KRL) bt Bhargava Kashish (DLI) 11-9, 4-11, 11-8, 3-11, 11-8, Gupta Satyam Girf (UP) bt Dey Arjit (NB) 11-1, 11-4, 11-9, Srivastava Harsh (PSPB-A) bt Iyer Karthik (GOA) 11-8, 11-6, 11-7, Pandry Sameer (PSPB-A) bt Uday Kumar U.Gokul (TN) 5-11, 6-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-3, Rane Tanmay (MHR-B) bt Malik Yashansh (DLI) 6-11, 11-6, 7-11, 11-8, 11-6, Srivastava Adarsh (UP) bt Ch.V.S. Sai Tejesh (TELG) 11-8, 11-8, 11-8, Shah Manush (GUJ) bt Gusain Nitin Singh (UKD) 11-4, 11-2, 11-6.

TTFI Press release