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PSPB quells Chhattisgarh

By Nandakumar Marar

Vinay Baiswade of Chhattisgarh in action against Subhajit Shah of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board in the men's team event in the National table tennis championship at Balewadi near Pune on Thursday. — Photo: Vivek Bendre

PUNE JAN. 9. Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) bounced back from Subhajit Saha's loss to Vinay Baiswade to win 3-1 against Chhattisgarh in the 64th senior National table tennis Championships at Balewadi near here on Thursday.

The results: team championships (round robin): Women: Group A: Karnataka bt Chhatisgarh 3-0 (B.M. Ashwini bt Anju Prajapati 11-2, 11-7, 11-9; Yashaswini bt Shweta Srivastav 11-4, 11-8, 6-11, 11-6; Samika Desai bt Rachita Sowale 11-6, 11-6, 11-8). Group B: Andhra bt Rajasthan 3-2 (Anupa Rath bt Neha Gupta 11-4, 9-11, 11-3, 11-4; Srilaxmi lost to Indu 11-5, 8-11, 7-11, 11-9, 1-11; Naganalini bt Hemlata Rawal 13-11, 11-3, 11-5; Anupa Rath lost to Indu 4-11, 4-11, 11-9, 16-14, 10-12; Srilaxmi bt Neha Gupta 13-11, 11-8, 11-5). RSPB bt AP 3-0 (Vishakha Vijay bt A. Rath 11-5, 11-5, 11-7; Anandita Chakravarty 11-7, 11-6, 11-2; Mamta Prabhu bt Srilaxmi 11-6, 11-7, 12-10). Group C: Kerala bt Orissa 3-0 (Bindu M.S. bt Lipsa Nayak 11-5, 11-3, 11-8; V. Laxmi bt Smita Choudary 11-4, 9-11, 11-9, 11-5; Arpana bt Chimayee Nayak 11-6, 9-11, 11-4, 11-6). Group D: Chandigarh bt Uttar Pradesh 3-0 (Barkha K.S. bt Shalini Sharma 12-10, 11-6, 11-5; Shikha Sharma bt Hema Kohli 11-9, 9-11, 16-14, 9-11, 11-9; Gurvinder Kaur bt Vineeta Singh 7-11, 3-11, 11-8, 11-8, 12-10). Group E: Gujarat bt Pondicherry 3-0 (Manisha Rana bt J. Suman Magi 11-6, 11-3, 11-8; Himani Bhatt bt G. Jayasundan 11-9, 11-7, 11-7; Vrusha Solanki bt Kapa Shreeti 8-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-6). Group F: Maharashtra A bt Himachal Pradesh 3-0 (Madhuri Patkar bt Minakshi 11-8, 11-6, 11-4; Shalmalee Mhatre bt Himalini 11-2, 11-3, 11-5; Deepali Jhaveri bt Sheetal 11-3, 11-2, 11-4). Uttaranchal bt Bihar 3-1 (Shabali Banu lost to Chulbul Das 9-11, 8-11, 7-11; Parvati Bankhwal bt Vijay Neha 11-4, 11-6, 11-9); Swati Sharma bt Mausumi Ghosh 11-8, 11-9, 11-9; Parvati Bankhwal bt Chulbul Das 11-7, 11-9, 11-0). Group G: Bengal bt Jharkhand 3-0 (Sinjini Mitra bt Ankita Roy 11-5, 11-4, 11-7; Kasturi Chakraborty bt Manjiri Mukherjee 11-2, 11-0, 11-0; Anushree Saha bt Akansha 11-2, 11-6, 11-2). Haryana bt MP 3-1 (Suman bt Shikha Mahadik 11-9, 11-6, 7-11, 8-11, 11-7; Monica bt Ruby Kaur 12-10, 11-8, 11-9; Shweta Jain lost to Neha Suveer 7-11, 4-11, 12-10, 7-11; Monica bt Shikha Mahadik 11-9, 11-6, 7-11, 8-11, 11-7). Group H: Punjab bt Goa 3-0 (Kanchan Basak bt S. Karishma 11-5, 11-3, 11-5; Anu bt S. Mamta 11-8, 11-5, 11-5; Shikha bt S. Divya 11-6, 11-1, 11-5). Delhi bt J & K 3-0 (Neha Agarwal bt Chandpreet Kaur 11-2, 11-3, 11-7; Ekta Bhambri bt Amrita Singh 11-3, 11-4, 11-6; R. Shikha bt Bhouna Arora 8-11, 11-8, 11-4, 11-7).

Men: Group A: Goa bt Kerala 3-1 (Noel Noronha bt Balaji C.J. 11-5, 11-4, 8-11, 4-11, 11-9; N. Ravindran bt Manoj Verghese 11-2, 11-7, 7-11, 11-7; Edwin Cardozo lost to Adarsh P. 9-11, 6-11, 14-16; N. Ravindran bt Balaji 11-6, 11-1, 13-11). Group B: Chhatisgarh bt Orissa 3-1 (Vijay Beswade lost to Pankaj Satpathy 5-11, 5-11, 3-11; Vinay Beswade bt K.V.P. Ramrao 11-6, 11 - 4, 11-3; A. Santosh bt D. Mohanty 11-8, 5-11,11-2, 11-8; Vinay Beswade bt P. Satpathy 11-7, 11-7, 4-11, 11-6). PSPB bt Chhatisgarh 3-1 (Vinay Baiswade bt Subhajit Saha 11-4, 10-12, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6; Shibaji Dutta bt A. Santosh 11-3, 11-6, 11-8; Soumyadeep Roy bt Vijay Baiswade 11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 11-4; Shibaji Dutta bt Vinay Baiswade 11-7, 4-11, 5-11, 13-11, 9-11). Group C: Assam bt Bihar 3-0 (Kishalay Basak bt Rahul Das 11-9, 13-11, 11-9; Mukul Borah bt Sanjeev Shankar 11-5, 11-6, 11-9; Pankaj Chutia bt Manoj Kumar 11-5, 11-3, 11-5). Group D: Tamil Nadu bt Himachal Pradesh 3-0 (K. Srivatsa bt Akhilesh Saini 11-5, 11-3, 11-5; R. Rajesh bt Somnath 11-9, 11-4, 8-11, 11-6; N. Senthil bt Jaswant Gangta 9-11, 11-7, 11-8, 12-10). Maharashtra B bt Chandigarh 3-0 (Ashutosh D. bt Dhiraj Arora 11-8, 12-10, 11-8; Nachiket Joshi bt Vikas Sharma 7-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-9; Upendra Mulay bt Harish K.R. 11-7, 11-4, 11-9). Group E: Gujarat bt Jharkhand 3-0 (Yash Jignesh bt Sanjay Kumar 9-11, 11-4, 11-5, 11-8; Parthiv Mehta bt Soumen Karmarkar 11-5, 11-8, 10-12, 11-6; Malay Thakkar bt Niraj Kumar 12-10, 11-2, 11-9). Maharashtra A bt Manipur 3-0 (Rohit Choudhary bt Rajesh Singh 11-9, 11-3, 11-6; Bhushan Thakur bt Imoomcha Singh 8-11, 11-1, 11-4, 11-3; Swapnil Namjoshi bt N. Nitra Singh 3-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-6). Group F: Delhi bt Haryana 3-0 (Himashu Kala bt Ganesh Ahuja 11-8, 13-11, 11-5; Rajeev Ghai bt Sunil Ahuja 13-11, 11-8, 11-7; Nitin Mahajan bt Jainender Jain 11-7, 11-8, 11-9). Karnataka bt Madhya Pradesh (Uday S. Athreja bt Samar Ahmad 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, 10-12,12-10; G. Ravi Shankar bt Nilesh Vaid 2-11, 6-11, 12-10, 11-7, 11-5; K. Telang lost to Akhay Jain 8-11, 7-11, 11-5, 11-3, 7-11; Uday S Athreja lost to Nilesh Vaid 11-9, 10-12, 3-11, 5-11; G Ravishankar bt Samar Ahmad 11-4, 11-4, 11-8). Group G: Rajasthan bt Tripura 3-0 (Amit Thanvi bt Sandeep Saha 11-5, 11-5, 11-8; Anal Kashyap bt Abhijit Shil 11-3, 11-1, 11-6; Rahul Sahani bt Chitaranjan Saha 11-9, 14-16, 11-6, 11-8). AP bt Pondichary 3-0 (Jayanth Chandra bt S. Balasubramaniam 11-5, 11-3, 11-3; G. Jitendra bt S. Selwa Muthukumar 8-11, 12-10, 12-10, 11-4; Somnath Ghosh bt S Ayyappam 11-3, 11-6, 11-5). Group F: Punjab bt Jammu and Kashmir 3-0 (Dipak Thukral bt Rajiv Raja 11-2, 11-2, 11-6; Vikas Mahajan bt Ajay Sharma 11-9, 12-10 ,11-5; Ramakant bt Manidar Singh 11-5, 13-11, 11-6). Group H: UP bt Uttaranchal 3-0 (Zabarjeet Singh bt A.M. Tiwari 11-7, 11-9, 11-6; Parag Agarwal bt Pawan Negi 11-6, 11-7, 11-7; Prashant Mishra bt S.K. Majumdar 11-7, 11-9, 11-7).

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