Date:06/10/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100605471800.htm

Sport - Table Tennis

Top seeds advance

Sports Reporter

VIJAYAWADA: Top seeds easily entered the pre-quarterfinals in the youth boys' singles in the National ranking table tennis championships at the DRRM Indoor Stadium here on Thursday.

Fourth seed N. Sneha of Tamil Nadu bounced back to defeat Delhi's Manika Batra 10-12, 11-6, 12-10, 7-11, 11-7 in the first round of the sub-junior girls' section.

The results: Youth boys (2nd round): Zubin Kumar (PSPBA) bt T. Haque (Ors) 11-7, 16-14, 11-8; R.S. Raja (TN) bt P. Gupta (Dli) 11-4, 11-6, 11-8; Uday Athreya (Kar) bt J. Sarkar (WB) 11-8, 1-12, 11-7, 11-3; Sayan Paul Ray (RSPB) bt V. Reddy (AP) 11-9, 11-13, 11-6, 11-9; Soumyajit Sarkar (RSPB) bt H. Desai (Guj) 5-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-7; Aman Balgu (Raj) bt Anjelo Porathur (Ker) 11-6, 11-6, 11-5; Omkar Toglekar (Mah) bt Gaurav Khanna (UP) 12-10, 11-9, 11-4; Rajath Kamal (TN) bt V. Singh (Pun) 11-7, 11-3, 13-11; Diptarko Biswas (NB) bt Kishan Raj (Bih) 11-7, 12-10, 11-6, Devesh Karia (PSPBA) bt Krishna Kiriti (AP) 11-7, 14-12, 11-5; Sanil Shetty (Mah) bt Varun Anand (Dli) 16-14, 11-6, 14-12; Abhishek (IB) bt Sarath Joy (Ker) 11-1, 11-5, 11-8; Sachin (Raj) bt Subhadip Das (WB) 5-11, 15-13, 8-11, 11-1, 11-5; Arnav Ganguly (PSPB) w/o Aryan Krishna (Jhk); Soumyajit Ghosh (NB) bt Arpit Bhopalkar (MP) 11-7, 11-7, 11-8; Shubham Sharma (AP) bt Neeloy Basak (Mhr) 7-11, 14-12, 12-10, 11-9.

Sub-junior: first round: Boys (important results): Pranat Sachin (Ori) bt Rohit Kumar (Bih) 8-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-6, 11-7; Anubhav Bagari (TN) bt Ayan Basak (NB) 11-4, 11-3, 6-11, 11-7; Vivek Vardhan (AP) bt Sourav Paul (WB) 11-4, 13-15, 11-4, 12-10; Shreyas Chander (TN) bt Souvik Choudary (WB) 11-5, 16-14, 11-9. Girls: Ankita Das (NB) bt Vinodini (Pon) 11-6, 11-7, 11-7; Divya Rajaram (TN) bt Alisha Alfonso (Goa) 11-9, 11-9, 11-5; N. Vidya (TN) Shikha Jacob (Ker) 11-6, 11-8, 11-8; V. Sneha (TN) Manika Batra (Dli) 10-12, 11-6, 12-10, 7-11, 11-7; Charvi Kawle (Mah) w/o Niraja Trivedi (Guj); Camelia Sil (WB) bt N. Poojitha (Kar) 11-6, 11-9, 4-11, 11-7; Medha Moitra (NB) bt Krithika (TN) 17-15, 7-11, 12-14, 12-10, 14-12.