Indore,
September 11, 2015: For the first time in recent years, national champion and
top-seed Manav Thakkar was involved in a two-way tie and had to wait for a
while to know his qualification in the main draw of the Cadet Boys singles in
the 11Even Sports 2015 India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships
at the Abhay Prashal here today.
Manav
was in a spot of bother, thanks to team mate Manush Shah who beat him 3-1
(6-11, 11-4, 11-7, 12-10) in Group 1. That was sort of an upset in the group
stage but both made it to the second stage despite the hiccups.
In
the same section, Group 4 too saw a tie, this time a three-way one among Snehit
Suravajjulu, Anukram Jain and Ashwin Subramanian, all having similar scores of
3-0 against each other. In the end, both Snehit and Anukram edged out Ashwin on
decimal points. They had all beaten the lone Bangladesh
The
other two groups had clear winners in Parth Virmani and South Africa
As
for Cadet Girls, Archana Kamath Girish and Diya Chitale Parag qualified from
group 1 to enter the quarterfinals. The other four groups saw Yashini
Sivasankar, Srushti Haleangadi, Varuni Jaiswal, Priyanka Pareek, Surbhi
Patwari, Selena Selvakumr, Prapti Sen and Kazakhstan
With
some of the Cadet Boys and Cadet Girls also taking part in the junior section,
matches in both Junior Boys and Junior Girls were some way behind schedule.
Since the main draw matches are slated to begin tomorrow, all
group matches will be completed tonight.
However,
the intense rivalry among the Indian paddlers was on view at the qualifying
stage with a few group matches ending in three-way ties. There was even a case
in the Cadet Girls section, where the tiebreaker calculation was used to decide
the players that will make it to the second stage.
TTFI Press release
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