Date:14/09/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/09/14/stories/2007091461612000.htm

Sport - Table Tennis

Mallika wins

PANAJI: India’s Mallika Bhandarkar claimed the cadet girls’ title with a 9-11, 12-10, 11-7, 4-11, 11-5 win over compatriot Ankita Das in the final of the ITTF-Indian Junior open table tennis championship here on Thursday.

Other results (Indians unless otherwise mentioned): Junior boys: Final: Miuchi Kentaro (Jpn) bt Ueda Jin (Jpn) 11-8, 11-8, 11-9, 10-12, 13-11; Semifinals: Miuchi Kentaro bt Sanil Shetty 11-9, 11-6, 6-11, 11-3, 11-4; Ueda Jin bt Soumyajit Ghosh 11-8, 11-6, 11-6, 9-11, 11-2. Quarterfinals: Miuchi Kentaro (Jpn) bt El Sobky Mohamed Tarek (Egy) 8-11, 11-6, 11-8, 12-10, 11-7; Sanil Shetty bt Assar Omar (Egy) 7-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-9, 11-5, 8-11, 11-7; Soumyajit Ghosh bt Alamiyan Noshad (IRI) 11-8, 11-5, 3-11, 12-10, 11-6; Ueda Jin (Jpn) bt Shubham Sharma 11-6, 16-18, 11-5, 11-8, 7-11, 11-6. Cadet boys (semifinals): G. Sathiyan bt Soumyajit Ghosh 9-11, 11-7, 3-11, 11-8, 11-8; Harmeet Desai bt Pang Xue Jie (Sin) 11-9, 11-9, 14-12.

Junior girls: Final: Misako Wakamiya (Jpn) bt Neha Aggarwal 11-7, 7-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5. Semifinals: Wakamiya Misako (Jpn) bt Sim Kai Zin Zena(Sin) 11-3, 11-3, 11-5, 11-3; Neha Aggarwal bt Fuji Yuko (Jpn) 11-9, 11-3, 11-9, 11-5. Cadet girls (semifinals): Ankita Das bt Look Sylvia (Sin) 7-11, 9-11, 15-13, 11-4, 11-6; Mallika Bhandarkar bt Saniya Sehgal 4-11, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9, 11-6.