Manav will take on Jeet Chandra in the final later tonight along
with the girls match. The second-seeded West Bengal player defeated Delhi ’s Parth Virmani
4-1, in an equally one-sided second semifinal.
Both the boys’ semifinals did not raise the kind of
interests which the girls semifinals did. Yet, it must be said to the credit
for both finalists that they never gave any leeway to their opponents and were
just keen to wind up as early as possible for adequate rest before the final.
In a field thrown open to the unseeded players—not a single
seed sprouted—in the Junior Girls section, two unseeded players made the
occasion memorable for them winning their semifinal matches. In the first, West
Bengal’s Moumita Datta defeated Andhra Pradesh’s Shailu Noorbasha 4-1, while it
was Manushree Patil of Maharashtra , who downed
state mate Srushti Haleangadi 4-1, in the second.
Moumita, who hasn’t had a steady season last year, was at
her best today when she took on the Andhra girl. Both prone to attacking,
Moumita committed fewer mistakes, particularly on her backhand, whereas
Shailu’s error percentage increased by the game. For instance, Shailu looked
good when she used the flanks to attack, forcing Moumita on the back foot in
the first game which the former won.
After sizing her up and pulling her socks up, Momita did
well to level the score in the second with blistering forehands, including some
special winners down the line. This opened her out as she adopted the same
method in the next three to stop Shailu on her tracks even as the Andhra girl
was making more and more mistakes either at the net or failing to keep the ball
on table.
A similar pattern was noticed in the Manushree-Srushti match
as the latter opened with an easy win. Yet, Manushree had an upper hand
at least until the fifth game when Srushti cashed in on Manushree’s accurate
shots deserted her suddenly to give a breather to her state mate. Nevertheless,
she kept a slender lead but came down to a solitary point when Srushti made it
10-11 with a timeout. But the one-minute break only helped Manushree who
received from Srjushti only to kill it with a precise forehand to the right
corner for the match point.
Even in women’s singles, only two seeds—Manika Batra and
Madhurika Patkar—survived while all others fell by the wayside on a hot
afternoon. Top-seed Suthirtha Mukherjee, also title winner at the Institutional
championships, went down to former national champion Paulomi Ghatak 4-3 in a
thrilling pre-quarterfinal. She will meet in quarters Divya Deshpande who
accounted for Krittwika Sinha Roy 4-3 after the latter squandered away a
comfortable lead. Manika Batra beat Railways’ Anandita Chakraborty 4-0 and
Ayhika Mukherjee handed out a similar verdict to Mouma Das from top half.
Reeth Rishya downed third seed Pooja Sahasrabuddhe 4-3 to
earn a quarterfinal meeting with Ankita Das, who beat Archana Kamath 4-3 while
K. Shamini won 4-1 against Takeme Sarkar and Madhurika Patkar beat Pooja Sharma
4-0 to complete the quarterfinal line-up from the bottom half.
RESULTS:
Junior Boys: Semifinals: Manav Thakkar (PSPB) bt Manush
Shah (Guj) 9-11, 11-3, 11-8, 11-9, 12-10, Jeet Chandra (WB) bt Parth Virmani
(Del) 6-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-8, 14-12.
Junior Girls: Semifinals: Moumita Datta (WB) bt Shailu
Noorbasha (AP) 9-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-5, 11-5, Manushree Patil (mah) bt Srushti
Haleangadi (Mah) 5-11, 11-8, 11-4, 11-9, 12-10.
TTFI release
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