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Showing posts with label 75th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 75th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship. Show all posts
Monday, January 13, 2014
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gives away Senior National TT prizes
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Bihar Table Tennis Association felicitates CM Nitish Kumar
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Nitish Kumar, Ranjan Yadav release table tennis souvenir
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Sanil, Ankita are national table tennis champions
Sanil Shetty and Ankita Das with their Senior National table tennis trophies
Sanil Shetty celebrates his men's singles title win
No. 2 seed Shetty defeated his PSPB team mate Harmeet Desai
4-2 and No. 4 Ankita Das, also of PSPB, drubbed AAI’s Krittwika Sinha Roy 4-0
to take home the winners’ purse of Rs.2.30 lakh and Rs. 1.45 lakh, respectively.
Incidentally, Shetty is the first national champion to emerge from Mumbai after
the great Kamlesh Mehta, who last won the title in 1995.
The best part of the championships was that the old faces
faded away while two youthful heroes emerged on the horizon. Fortunately, the
men’s singles too had all the ingredients befitting the final, unlike the
women’s final which never rose to any dizzy heights.
The left-handed Shetty proved too hot for Desai who, in the
morning, had upset all calculations and form to account for Achanta Sharath
Kamal. Desai, however, failed to raise his game in the final and his game
lacked aggression.
In fact, Shetty was on a rampage right from the start which
allowed little leeway to Desai. In a way, the latter was astounded by Shetty’s
attack on both flanks, more so on his opponent’s faulty forehand. It paid rich
dividends as Shetty reeled off winners after winners to unsettle his rival. For
a brief period, though, Desai tried to come back but once Shetty ran up a 7-3
lead and 10-5, it was all over for Desai.
One jarring note, however, was the match was stopped for a
brief while as chief minister Nitish Kumar walked up to the dais when Shetty
was about to serve on his championship point. Luckily, it didn’t cost him
heavily except the couple of points he lost to Desai.
As for Ankita, she hardly broke a sweat against Krittwika
and it is reflected in the score line against her AAI opponent in the women’s
final. Krittwika was found wanting on many fronts and Ankita just exploited
them to her advantage.
Making a mockery of the seeding yet again, No. 1 men’s
player Sharath and No. 3 K. Shamini in women’s singles had bowed out without a
fight. Desai, who has never won against Sharath, was the better player on view
today as he controlled the match tactically. To begin with, Sharatah was
serving bad—three bad misses in the first game set the tone—and his misery was
compounded by his weak backhand. Desai, on the other hand, was full of
aggression and exploited Sharth’s weakness on the backhand to the fullest.
Desai made up for his ineffective forehand by blocking well
and employed more of his backhands. Deasi took calculated risks at the long
ball, his Achilles heel, and came up with several surprise winners besides
playing a consistent, percentage game. Sharath, who is good at short ball,
tried his luck but Desai was up to it all the time. Except for the third game,
where Sharath showed glimpses of a comeback, he knew he was never in the match.
Sharath admitted as much after his semifinal loss. “My
serves deserted me and was the basic mistake which I continued with. My rhythm
was missing and I made far too many mistakes at the net and my backhand shots
were awful. Harmeet played superbly and exploited my weakness to the hilt,”
said a disappointed Sharath.
No. 2 seed and left-handed Sanil Shetty also surprised
Soumyadeep Roy in the second semifinal. Roy ,
though managed to take a set off Shetty, was unable to cope with the breezy and
aggressive Shetty.
Results:
Men: Final: Sanil Shetty (PSPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB)
4-2 (11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 12-10, 7-11, 11-7; Semifinals: Harmeet Desai
(PSPB) bt A. Sharath Kamal (PSPB) 4-1 (13-11, 11-7, 6-11, 11-8, 11-6), Sanil
Shetty (PSPB) bt Soumyadeep Roy (WB) 4-1 (13-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-13, 11-6).
Women: Final: Ankita Das (PSPB) bt Krittwika Sinha Roy
(AAI) 4-0 (11-9, 12-10, 11-8, 13-11); Semifinals: Krittwika Sinha Roy
(AAI) bt K. Shamini (PSPB) 4-2 (12-10, 7-11, 5-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-6), Ankita
Das (PSPB) bt Reeth Rishya (PSPB) 4-0 (11-3, 11-9, 11-3, 11-4).
Mixed Doubles: Final: Sanil Shetty/Neha Aggarwal (PSPB)
bt Arjun Ghosh/Mousi Pal (WB) 3-1 (15-13, 12-10, 7-11, 14-12).
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Rains force players to take their lunch inside Patliputra Sports Complex
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Income Tax commissioner Kumar Sanjay felicitated
Defending champion Ghosh ousted; women top seeds fall
Sudhanshu Grover of Rajasthan, who sends Amal Raj packing
Harmeet will take on top-seed Achanta Sharath Kamal, who
disposed Haryana’s Sourav Chakraborty 4-0 in the first semifinal tomorrow.
The other semifinal will pit former national champion Soumyadeep Roy against
No. 3 Sanil Shetty. Roy
defeated Sudhanshu Grover 4-1 while Shetty accounted for G. Sathiyan 4-2 in the
quarterfinals.
One expected the defending champion to put up a semblance of
fight in the quarterfinals. On the contrary, Ghosh played a subdued game while
Desai kept his attacking posture through the match. It was Desai who took the
first game without breaking a sweat but Ghosh came back strongly in the second.
But what changed the complexion of the match was the third set where Ghosh showed
glimpses of his top quality game, only to lose 10-12.
That’s what game Desai the confidence as he never looked
back after that. Even in the fifth game, Desai was up 9-6 and allowed Ghosh
level at 9-9. But a silly mistake at net by Ghosh, with his serve on, gave
Desai the chance he was looking for. On his second serve, Desai only needed to
keep the ball on table with a power forehand which he did admirably.
Though Sanil Shetty and Satihyan were more or less on equal
footing, the left-handed Shetty had an edge over the right hander. And that
showed in their quarterfinal match which Shetty won comfortably in the end,
despite losing two sets to Sathiyan. As for Soumyadeep Roy, he was in the best
form of his life against a determined Sudhanshu Grover. The veteran, who is now
turning out for West Bengal , simply mowed down
Grover.
Top 2 seeds out
Reigning champion K. Shamini made a rough weather of her
quarter-final outing against 31-year-old Mouma Das and escaped to safety to win
4-3. But both No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, Madhurika Patkar and Pooja Sahasrabuddhe
went down to AAI’s Krittwika Sinha Roy and Reeth Rishya Tennison, respectively.
Reeth downed No. 2 seed Pooja 4-1 Krittiwika Sinha Roy , showing great determination, outplayed
the top-seed 4-3.
In the first semifinal tomorrow Shaimini will take
on Krittwika Sinha Roy and in the second Ankita will clash with Reeth.
Results:
Men: Quarterfinals: A Sharath Kamal bt Sourav
Chakraborty 4-0 (11-2, 11-4, 11-8, 11-4), Harmeet Desai bt Soumyajit Ghosh 4-1
(11-9, 7-11, 12-10, 11-5, 11-9), Sanil Shetty bt G. Sathiyan 4-2 (11-7, 11-7,
8-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-4), Soumyadeep Roy bt Sudhanshu Grover 4-1 (11-5, 11-9,
7-11, 11-9, 11-9).
Women: Quarterfinals: K. Shamini bt Mouma Das 4-3
(11-8, 10-12, 11-8, 11-6, 10-12, 6-11, 11-7), Ankita Das bt Poulami Ghatak 4-1
(11-3, 5-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-3), Reeth Rishya bt Pooja Saharaabuddhe 4-1 (11-4,
5-11, 13-11, 11-9, 11-7), Krittiwka Sinha Roy bt Madhurika Patkar 4-3 (9-11,
11-5, 11-13, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4, 11-8).
TTFI release
Haryana men, Railway women annex doubles crown
Anindita Chakraborty and Pallabi Kundu of Railways with women's doubles trophy
The duo beat Rajasthan’s Vivek Bhargava and Sudhanshu Grover
3-2 to win a major national title for Haryana. The women’s double
crown went to Railways’ pair of Anindita Chakraborty and Pallabi Kundu, who
beat Airports Authority of India’s Nikhat Banu and Krittwika Sinha Roy 3-1.
The Haryana duo was on the verge of defeat with Grover and
Bharagava on championship point at 10-9. But Grover, in his anxiety, received
the ball at an awkward angle from left-hander Jubin only to send it out, giving
a lease of life to Haryana. Earlier, Rajasthan combine led 9-6 only let the
Haryana players come back.
At 10-10 it was anybody’s match when both the pairs picked a
point each to be at 11-all. When the service returned to Rajasthan, Chakraborty
returned well, to earn the crucial point. Then it was left to Jubin finish off
the job on his serve and Grover, yet again, sent a long ball for Haryana to
celebrate.
Title for Railways
The experienced Railways duo simply outwitted the AAI
combine. The pair was slow to take off, particularly after losing the first
game. But the two veterans came to grip with their combination play which
confused the AAI duo of Nikhat and Krittiwika. However hard the two tried, they
were unable to come out of the mire in spite of stretching the RSPB pair in the
third game to 10-12. With a comfortable 2-1 lead, Anindita and Pallabi just
completed the demolition job in the next in less than 5 minutes.
Former champion Anthony Amal Raj was the biggest seed to
fall in the morning session as he bowed out to unseeded Sudhanshu Grover 3-4 in
the pre-quarterfinals. But there were quite a few prominent players like
Subhajit Saha from North Bengal, Maharashtra A’s Aman Balgu, Gujarat’s Jignesh
Jaiswal, Railways’ Souvik Kar, Haryana’s Sarthak Gandhi from the bottom half
and both Devesh Karia (Gujarat) and Souav Chakraborty (Haryana) from the top
half made their exit in the round of 32.
Promising Mizo boy Lalrin Puia and PSPB Academy
Amal Raj started on a rousing note winning the first game
and going up 2-1 before Grover hitting him back with superb attacking game on
both flanks to unsettle his opponent. Once Gover made it 2-2 Amal Raj cleaned
him up 11-5 with an excellent fast game which saw fewer rallies. Amal Raj was
back in his groove with superb backhand flicks and close to the table play
which brooked little challenge from Grover.
But the Rajasthan player surprised everyone, including Amal
Raj, to take the next game at 11-8. Probably, this rattled Amal Raj who was
found wanting in his strokes and made several unforced errors. This only helped
Grover’s cause as he kept growing in confidence to stop the frustrating former
champion very early in the decider. Grover will now take on Soumyadeep Roy in
the quarterfinals to be played later tonight.
In women’s singles all top four seeds entered the
pre-quarterfinals but both No. 2 seed Pooja Sahasrabudhe and No. 4 Ankita Das
went through some rough weathers before making the cut. Pooja struggled before
overcoming Andra Pradesh’s Nikhat Banu 4-2 (11-2, 9-11, 11-7, 6-11, 13-11,
11-3) and Ankita Das struggled against Suthirtha Mukherjee. Ankita won 4-2
(13-11, 8-11, 7-11, 13-11, 11-7, 11-7).
Results (Doubles Finals):
Men: Jubin Kumar/Sourav Chakraborty (Har) bt Vivek
Bhargava/Sudhanshu Grover 3-2 (11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 7-11, 13-11).
Women: Anindita Chakraborty/Pallabi Kundu (RSPB) bt Nikhat
Bhanu/Krittwika Sinha Roy (AAI) 3-1 (9-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-5).
TTFI release
Divya Gohil in action at Patlputra Sports Complex
Manoj Kumar loses men's singles qualification match
Dilip Gandhi loses men's singles qualification match
Sharath, Madhurika top seeds; Ghosh, Shamini relegated
In the women’s section, it will his Petroleum team mate
Madhurika Patkar who has been seeded No. 1, thanks to her two title victories
at the Gandhidham (Central) and Thanke (West) zonal events earlier this season.
Normally, players are seeded as per the ranking points they
accumulate during the domestic events throughout the year. In the case of
Sharath, who has not played in a single tournament in India this season, the technical
committee has considered his world ranking—he is currently world No. 50—as the
basis for the nationals here.
“Since Sharath has been representing India at various IITF pro-tours
this season and is the top-ranked Indian in the world, he has been seeded No. 1
here,” said competition manager Ganeshan N. Iyer. “For other players, we have
purely taken into consider their ranking points accrued from the domestic
events,” he added.
Soumyajit Ghosh, who is the men’s singles title-holder, has
been seeded fifth behind former national champion Anthony Amal Raj (No. 2),
Sanil Shetty (No. 3) and Harmeet Desai (No. 4). Ghosh, who missed a few zonals,
and it reflects in the ranking points he was able to garner this season. Since
Ghosh form part of the top-half, he is likely run into top-seed Sharath in the
semifinals, barring early hiccups.
With Madhurika getting the top perch in seeding list,
reigning women’s champion K. Shamini—she has failed to win a single zonal title
this season—has been pushed down the ladder at No. 4 with just 225 points and
drawn in the top half. In fact, Pooja Saharashrabudhe, who has 255 points, is
seeded at No. 2. Though both Neha Aggarwal and Ankita Das have 220 points
each, the Siliguri girl has been seeded No.3, ahead of her PSPB team mate from Delhi , for her better
performance.
This would mean that Ankita, along with the other three
women, can take it easy with a first-round bye while Neha will have to sweat it
out against qualifier Shailoo Noor Basha of Andhra Pradesh later tonight.
Unlike the four women, none of the men seeds has been given
any luxury of bye in the first round. All top-seeds will have to get down to
business straightaway soon after the women’s singles main round matches
tonight.
Meanwhile, 50 women and 54 men topped their group to join
the elite paddlers after the qualification matches that ended this evening.
There were a few upsets of sorts like Sagarika Mukherjee from North Bengal in
group 47 and veteran Arul Selvi in group 19, representing Indian Bank, who
failed to cross the qualification hurdle. But for those who have made the cut,
the acid test begins later tonight.
A TTFI release
Sanil-Neha lead seeded pairs into pre-quarterfinals
Results (mixed doubles; third round): Sanil Shetty and Neha
Agarwal beat Bhavesh Apte and Surabhi Modi (Chandigarh) 13-11, 11-3, 7-11,
11-1; Arnab Adhikary and Sagarika Mukherjee (North Bengal) beat S Raj and
Archana (Karnataka) 5-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-5, 11-5; Devesh Kariya and Divya Gohil
(Gujarat) beat Y Jindal and Nikita (Delhi) 11-6, 11-5, 11-7; Sushmit Sriram and
Amrutha Pushpak (Tamil Nadu) beat Abhishek and Shayantika (Civil Audit) 11-7,
7-11, 11-9, 11-8; Sougata Sarkar and Sutirtha Mukherjee (West Bengal) beat
Birdie Boro and Maasweta Batsallya (Assam) 11-1, 11-4, 11-7; Piyush Prasad and
Sany Sehgal (Delhi) beat Paresh Murerkar and Chharvi Kavale (Maharashtra) 11-8,
8-11, 12-10, 11-7; Omkar Torgalkar and Shweta (Maha) beat Sundar S and Maria
Rony (Kerala) 11-7, 11-7, 8-11, 7-11, 13-11; Shubhajit Saha and
Nandita Saha (North Bengal) beat Anirban Roy Choudhary and Aishwarya
(Karnataka) 12-10, 11-7, 11-6; Utkarsh Guota and Mankia (Delhi) beat Sanish
Ambedkar and Rutuja (Maha B) 11-6, 11-9,11-7; Asif Haque and
Samartha (Odisha) beat Harikrishnana and Sreya (Kerala) 11-5, 11-9, 11-7;
Shivnanda and Vidya (Tamil Nadu) beat Hitesh and Yashi (Punjab) 11-4, 5-11,
9-11, 11-7, 11-7; Arjun Ghosh and Mousami Pal (West Bengal) beat Nishad Shah
and Vedika Gerg (Maha) 5-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-4; Jignesh Jaiswal and Frenze Chhipia
(Gujarat) beat Sami Sahini and Esha Monga (Delhi) 12-14, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8;
Anirban and Shreya (West Bengal) beat Sai Praneeth and Monika (Andhra Pradesh)
11-3, 11-4, 9-11, 11-8; Sarthak and Ritika (Haryana) beat Chaitanya and
Mrunmayee ((Maha B) 14-12, 11-9, 11-9; Soumyajit Ghosh and Ankita Das (PSPB)
beat Vinod G and Priya (Tamil Nadu) 11-3, 8-11, 11-8, 11-6.
Friday, January 10, 2014
PSPB men retain title, women regain crown
The domination of their men’s team was never in doubt,
thanks to a solid line-up they boast of. However, there was a lingering feeling
about their women’s team consistency in spite of the quality they always
unveiled. It has often misfired and PSPB women had very badly lost to
Maharashtra A at Lucknow in 2009 and at Raipur to Delhi
last year, to cite a few recent examples.
In fact, there were a few occasions in today’s final giving
rise to a similar situation, particularly when national champion K. Shamini
took on the challenge of North Bengal ’s
Sagarika Mukherjee. The 16-year-old gave enough scare to spoil Shamini’s
reputation before the latter could overcome that phase with a fine forehand
winner in the decider of the second rubber.
Shamini was somewhat slow to start off and was pushed to the
corner by the young North Bengal paddler. The
PSPB player brought in variety and put on display an array of brilliant strokes
on both the flanks. Yet, while leading 2-1, Shamini was given a jolt when
Sagarika, blocking and serving well, restored parity after the fourth game. In
the decider, the lead kept changing hands quickly but Shamini held on to her
nerves to romp home.
Probably, the use of long pimple racquet by Sagariaka posed
certain problems and Shamini took time to adjust her game. “I couldn’t come to
terms with the slowness of the ball initially,” admitted Shamini after the
match.
What followed was a simple annihilation by Ankita Das who
disposed of Sukanya Bose, the weak link in North Bengal ’s
ranks, in straight games of 11-9, 11-8, 11-7 in less than 15 minutes. The
team’s ploy to rest Neha Aggarwal and instead pit Ankita, a North
Bengal player, against the ‘state’ team worked wonders for PSPB.
Earlier, Madhurika Patkar was also off colour in the first rubber against
Nandita Saha, but Madhurika managed to ward off the threat. Nandita, who
employed flat serves to bemuse Madhurika, managed to take two games off her
opponent.
In the men’s team final, Soumyadeep Roy took the first game
off Soumyajit Ghosh, giving some glimpses of his old self. But Ghosh, who just
returned from Sweden after
playing a string of league matches, arrested any further advance by Roy in a fine
close-to-the table display with powerful shots. The old legs of Roy couldn’t compete with
the younger and well-oiled Ghosh’s who won 3-1.
Achanta Sharath Kamal, who is here with a mission to “take
his rightful place,” accounted for Sourav Saha without any inhibition.
Absolutely looking fit, the top-ranked Indian, currently No. 50 in the world,
demolished Sourav Saha 11-8, 11-7, 11-2 in 12 minutes to put PSPB 2-0 up. Then
Anthony Amal Raj, after a fine rally at 11-10 in the third game, who returned
from Poland ,
beat Sougata Sarkar in straight games for a 3-0 sweep.
Sarkar, down 0-2, saved a match point at 9-10 but could not
capitalize on it as he erred at the net soon after to give service back to Amal
Raj who did not waste any time to send down a powerful forehand winner after
some fine rally from both. It was all over bar the shouting for the West Bengal camp as the PSPB players exchanged handshakes
and high-fives in celebration.
Results (Team event
finals):
Men: Petroleum Sports Promotion Board bt West Bengl 3-0
(Soumyajit Ghosh bt Soumyadeep Roy 16-14, 7-11, 11-7, 11-4, A. Sharath Kamal bt
Sourav Saha 11-8, 11-7, 11-2, A. Amal Raj bt Sougata Sarkar 11-9, 11-8, 12-10).
Women: Petroleum Sports Promotion Board bt North Bengal 3-0
(Madhurika Patkar bt Nandita Saha 6-11, 11-6, 12-10, 9-11, 11-5, K. Shamini bt
Sagarika Mukherjee 9-11, 11-5, 11-7, 10-12, 11-8, Ankita Das bt Sukanya Bose
11-9, 11-8, 11-7).
A TTFI Press release
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Neha Agarwal in Patna
Cups for 75th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships unveiled
Neha Agarwal in action
Dominant PSPB through to finals, North Bengal women stun West Bengal
In the semifinals PSPB men defeated Gujarat 3-0, their women
accounted for Airports Authority of India in the identical margin, North Bengal
women blanked West Bengal 3-0 and West Bengal defeated
Haryana 3-0. West Bengal men had last reached the finals at Kolkata in 2010 and
for North Bengal women it is their fourth
entry in final.
PSPB men, with a star cast, were never under any threat as
Soumyajit Ghosh, Achanta Sharath Kamal and Harmeet Desai went about their
routine in a clinical way against Gujarat to
sound out a clear warning to their final opponent. But the West
Bengal team, with Soumyadeep Roy in the best form of his life, was
also up to the task to outclass Haryana, whose Jubin Kumar and Sourav
Chakraborty, failed to find their quarterfinal rhythm. Earlier, the Haryana duo
had surpassed all expectations to beat Tamil Nadu 3-1 in the last eight.
K Shamini began the semifinal proceedings for PSPB and took
less than 25 minutes to dispose of Ayhika Mukherjee, though the former gained
through several negative points. However, Madhurika Patkar played true to her
expectation and Krittiwika Sinha Roy was finding it difficult to counter her
opponent. There was a semblance of fight between Neha Aggarwal and Nikhat Banu,
who managed to take a game off the PSPB girl, before being subdued.
But the second semifinal turned out to be a totally
one-sided with six-time national champion and experienced Poulomi Ghatak and
Mouma Das losing tamely to their North Bengal
opponents Sukanya Bose and Sagarika Mukherjee, currently No. 1 player in the
junior section. After Nandita huffed and puffed her way to win the first
singles against a determined Suthirtha—she leveled score after being 0-2
down—Mouma played a sub-par game to lose to 16-year-old Sagarika.
Poulomi, perhaps conserving her energy for the individual
events, would rather like to forget her match against Sukanya Bose. Down 0-1,
Poulomi looked like coming back as she led 10-4 in the second game only to lose
her way from there. Though she did win a game, Poulomi was definitely at the
receiving end. In fact, only Suthirtha, appearing in her first senior
nationals, showed real tenacity in the entire West Bengal
setup.
In the pre-quarters finals, only two matches in the men’s
team event—Mizoram vs Gujarat and Maharashtra B vs North Bengal—went down to
the wire while the match between Maharashtra B and Gujarat
in the women’s affair went beyond expectations with the latter ending as the
loser. Gujarat , despite leading 2-0,
surrendered to the guile of Maharashtra B girls.
Results: Team events:
Men: Semifinals: PSPB bt Gujarat 3-0 (Soumyajit Ghosh
bt Jignesh Jaiswal 11-3, 11-8, 11-2, A Sharath Kamal bt Devesh Karia 10-12,
11-6, 11-3, 11-7, Harmeet Desai bt Hardik Bhatt 11-4, 11-5, 11-8), West Bengal
bt Haryana 3-0 (Sourav Saha bt Sourav Chakraborty 11-9, 11-7, 11-9, Soumyadeep
Roy bt Jubin Kumar 10-12, 11-3, 11-5, 11-7, Sougata Sarkar bt Sarthak Gandhi
11-7, 11-7, 5-11, 11-6); Quarterfinals: PSPB bt Maharashtra B 3-0 (Harmeet
Desai bt Ravindra Kotiyan 11-8, 11-4, 13-11, A Amal Raj bt Chaitanya Udhare
11-6, 11-4, 11-4, Sanil Shetty bt Paresh Murekar 11-6, 11-4, 11-7), Gujarat bt
Maharashtra A 3-1 (Devesh Karia bt Omkar Torgalkar 11-6, 9-11, 11-3, 11-7,
Jignesh Jaiswal lost to Aman Balgu 9-11, 11-4, 11-9, 6-11, 8-11, Hardik Bhatt
bt Nishaad Shah 8-11, 13-11, 11-8, 11-7, Devesh Karia bt Aman Balgu 8-11, 11-5,
11-3, 12-10), Haryana bt Tamil Nadu 3-1 (Sourav Chakraborty bt Sushmit Sriram
8-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 11-6, Sarthak Gandhi lost to Nitin Thiruvenkadam 11-8,
14-16, 12-10, 8-11, 8-11, Jubin Kumar bt Vinoth G 11-5, 11-6, 10-12, 11-4,
Sourav Chakraborty bt Nitin Thiruvenkadam 8-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-5), West
Bengal bt RSPB 3-2 (Sourav Saha bt Souvik Kar 11-8, 9-11, 3-11, 11-9, 11-9,
Soumyadeep Roy bt Anirban Nandi 10-12, 9-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-8, Sougata Sakar
lost to E Prabhakaran 4-11, 10-12, 6-11, Sourav Saha los to Anirban Nandi 11-8,
6-11, 11-13, 7-11, Soumyadeep Roy bt Souvik Kar 11-8, 11-4, 9-11, 8-11, 11-8).
Women: Semifinals: PSPB bt AAI 3-0 (K. Shamini bt
Ayhika Mukherjee 13-11, 11-5, 11-3, Madhurika Patkar bt Krittwika Sinha Roy
12-10, 11-5, 11-7, Neha Aggarwal bt Nikhat Bhanu 11-2, 7-11, 119, 12-10), North
Bengal bt West Bengal 3-0 (Nandita Saha bt Suthirtha Mukherjee 11-5, 11-7,
7-11, 6-11, 11-9, Sagarika Mukherjee bt Mouma Das 13-11, 11-7, 12-10, Sukanya
Bose bt Poulami Ghatak 11-9, 12-10, 8-11, 11-5); Quarterfinals: North
Bengal bt Delhi 3-1 (Nandita Saha lost to Manika Batra 6-11, 8-11, 9-11, 13-11,
5-11, Sagarika Mukherjee bt Sanya Sehgal 11-9, 6-11, 6-11, 11-8, 14-16, Sukanya
Bose bt Esha Monga 11-7, 11-5, 11-4, Sagarika Mukherjee bt Manika Batra 11-7,
11-3, 6-11, 11-6), West Bengal bt Tamil Nadu 3-0 (Poulami Ghatak bt Amrutha
Pushpak 6-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-4, Mouma Das bt N. Vidya 1-15, 12-10, 12-10,
Mousmi Pal bt Narasimha Priya 11-6, 8-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-9), AAI bt Maharashtra
A 3-1 (Krittwika Sinha Roy bt Mallika Bhandarar 11-9, 11-3, 11-8, Nikhat Bhanu
lost to Divya Deshpande 11-7, 8-11, 8-11, 4-11, Ayhika Mukherjee bt Senhora
D’Souza 11-7, 11-2, 11-8, Krittwika Sinha Roy bt Divya Deshpande 12-10, 11-5,
4-11, 11-9), PSPB bt Maharashtra B 3-0 (K. Shamini bt Charvi Kawle 11-7, 11-6,
11-2, Madhurika Patkar bt Piti Mokashi 11-4, 11-3, 11-5, Neha Aggarwal bt
Rutuja Khopkar 11-2, 11-8, 12-10).
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Bihar men enter pre-quarterfinals of Senior National TT
Bihar men advanced into the pre-quarterfinals of the 75th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Patliputra Sports Complex hall here on January 7, 2014. Bihar lost their first match against Petroleum Sports Promotion Board 0-3 but later in the day Bihar beat Himachal Pradesh 3-0 and made it to the last 16 stage. However, Bihar women crashed out of the team event losing their matches in the league stage.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui
Delhi girls drawn to meet Kerala in pre-quarterfinals
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Though team title holders Delhi , as expected, topped Group A, they have
been drawn to meet a tough Kerala in the pre-quarterfinals. Similarly, the
second finished Chandigarh
team has a most arduous job scaling the peak against PSPB, the No. 2 seeded
team here. The Airport Authority of India, who topped group F will meet
Rajasthan, who finished behind Tamil Nadu in group D.
However, the matches between Assam ,
who beat Punjab to make the cut, and North Bengal
will be interesting despite the latter’s stature. Tamil Nadu will run into
Odisha while Maharashtra A are slated to take
on Andhra Pradesh in the pre-quarterfinals. Gujarat, who are taking on
Maharashtra B, should sail into the quarters without a hiccup, particularly
after the way Gujarat girls had played their
group matches
.
Though Gujarat took the top perch in group E, there was a
tough battle between Assam
and Punjab to decide the second spot from the
group. Assam defeated Punjab 3-2 to romp home with Mahasweta Batsallya
shouldering the team’s burden. She won both her singles to see her team
through.
As for the men’s team matches, a clear picture in half a
dozen groups will emerge only after the set of fourth round matches. However,
there is hardly any doubt about the qualifications of top teams.
Teams like PSPB, West Bengal, Gujarat, RSPB and North Bengal , to name a few, are virtually through to the
second stage matches even as they await their opponents from other groups.
There was, however, a surprise in the form of Mizoram, comprising PSPB Academy
Results: (Group A-H):
Men’s team (Stage 1-Round 1): PSPB bt Bihar 3-0, West Bengal
bt Tripura 3-0, Punjab bt Pondicherry 3-0, Haryana bt Meghalaya 3-0, Maharashtra
B bt Chandigarh 3-0, Gujarat bt Delhi 3-1, Odisha bt J and K 3-0, North Bengal
bt Kerala 3-0, Chhatisgarh bt Jharkhand 3-0, Rajasthan bt Assam 3-0, RSPB bt
Manipur 3-1, Maharashtra A bt Uttarakhand 3-0, Tamil Nadu bt Nagaland 3-0,
Mizoram bt Andhra Pradesh 3-1; Round 2: PSPB w/o Goa, Bihar bt Himachal
Pradesh 3-0, West Bengal bt Punjab 3-0, Tripura bt Pondicherry 3-1, Chandigarh
bt Meghalaya 3-0, Haryana bt Maharashtra B 3-1, Gujarat bt Odisha 3-1, Delhi bt
J and K 3-0, North Bengal bt Chhattisgarh 3-1, Kerala bt Jharkhand 3-0,
Rajasthan w/o Sikkim, Assam bt Karnataka 3-0, RSPB bt Madhya Pradesh 3-0,
Maharashtra A bt Manipur 3-0, Andhra Pradesh bt Nagaland 3-0,Tamil Nadu bt
Uttar Pradesh 3-0.
Women’s team (Stage 1-Round 1): Delhi bt Bihar 3-0, PSPB bt
Jharkhand 3-0, Maharashtra A bt Tripura 3-0, Odisha bt Himachal Pradesh 3-0,
Chhattisgarh bt Meghalaya 3-1, Gujarat bt Punjab 3-0, Assam bt Uttar Pradesh
3-0, West Bengal bt Pondicherry 3-0, AAI bt Uttarakhand 3-0, Kerala bt Madhya
Pradesh 3-2, North Bengal bt Goa 3-0, Maharashtra B bt Karnataka 3-1; Round
2: Delhi bt Chandigarh 3-0, PSPB bt Haryana 3-0, Maharashtra A bt Himachal
Pradesh 3-0, Odisha bt Tripura 3-0, Tamil Nadu bt Chhatisgarh 3-0, Rajasthan bt
Meghalaya 3-2, Gujarat bt Assam 3-0, Punjab bt Uttar Pradesh 3-0, West Bengal
bt Andhra Pradesh 3-0, Pondicherry w/o Sikkim, North Bengal bt Maharashtra 3-0,
Kerala bt Uttarakhand 3-0, Karnataka bt Goa 3-0; Round 3: Chandigarh bt
Bihar 3-0, Haryana bt Jharkhand 3-0, Maharashtra A bt Odisha 3-0, Himachal Pradeshs
bt Tripura 3-1, Tamil Nadu bt Meghalaya 3-0, Rajasthan bt Chhatisgarh 3-1, West
Bengal w/o Sikkim, Gujarat bt Uttar Pradesh 3-0, Assam bt Punjab 3-2, Tamil
Nadu bt Rajasthan 30, AAI bt Madhya Pradesh 3-1, Maharashtra B bt Goa 3-0,
Madhya Pradesh bt Uttarakhand 3-1, North Bengal bt Karnataka 3-0.
TTFI release
Photos: Aftab Alam Siddiqui
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