Date:18/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/18/stories/2007121856101700.htm

Sport - Table Tennis

Maharashtra ‘A’ advances

Special Correspondent

INDORE: Reigning champion Maharashtra ‘A’ and West Bengal advanced to the junior girls’ semifinals of the National youth and junior table tennis championships at the Abhay Prashal indoor stadium here on Monday.

The results: Boys: Juniors (pre-quarterfinals): PSPBA bt Orissa 3-0 (Sourav Saha bt Tousif Hoque 11-6, 11-9, 11-7; V. Nitin bt Md. Azhar 5-11, 11-5, 11-9, 13-11; Mohit Verma bt Shreyan Das 11-6, 11-7, 11-7).

Gujarat bt MP 3-0 (Harmeet Desai bt Rishab Chaturvedi 11-7, 11-4, 11-3; Jenil Shah bt Satyajeet Ghosh 11-4, 11-6, 11-3; Jalay Mehta bt Vaibhav Dahibhate 11-4, 11-6, 11-5).

Maharashtra ‘A’ bt UP 3-1 (Noel Pinto bt Prerit Sharma 11-4, 11-8, 11-4; Aakash Damle lost to Manish Yadav 6-11, 8-11, 12-14; Viresh Rana bt Harshit Jaiswal 11-7, 15-13, 11-4; Noel Pinto bt Manish Yadav 11-9, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7).

Delhi bt AP 3-0 (Pranshu Gupta bt Harsh A. Shaw 11-5, 11-5, 11-6; Sarthak Gandhi bt P. Vignay Reddy 5-11, 11-8, 11-9, 7-11, 12-10; Kartik Kukreja bt CHSSV Ramana 11-6, 11-5, 11-9).

Tamil Nadu bt Chhattisgarh 3-0 (G. Sathiyan bt K. Saiprashanth 11-5, 11-7, 11-6; E. Prabhakaran bt Aditya Kulkarni 11-4, 11-5, 11-4; R. Venkitaramanan bt Soumitra Tiwary 11-0, 11-5, 11-4).

Karnataka bt Maharashtra ‘B’ 3-2 (A.R. Navneeth bt Amish Karamchandani 11-5, 11-3, 11-7; Akhil V. Athresh lost to Sanmay Paranjape 9-11, 7-11, 10-12; Puneeth P. lost to Devdutt Phadnis 7-11, 6-11, 8-11; A.R. Navneeth bt Sanmay Paranjape 14-12, 11-9, 7-11, 11-3; Akhil bt Amish 11-8, 14-12, 11-6).

North Bengal bt Assam 3-0 (Raj Mondal bt Saidul Alam Ahmed 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 11-5; Soumyajit Ghosh bt Radhesyam Sahu 11-8, 11-7, 12-10; Arnab Adhikari bt Hrishikesh Gogoi 11-8, 11-7, 6-11, 11-9).

West Bengal bt Bihar 3-0 (Souvik Kar bt Lekh Raj 11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 11-8; Susovan Das bt Zunaid Ur Rahman 10-12, 6-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-3; Suman Basak bt Kumar Prateek 11-4, 11-7, 12-10).

Girls: Juniors (quarterfinals): West Bengal bt Delhi 3-0 (K. Sinha Roy bt Sanya Sehgal 11-9, 6-11, 11-9, 11-8; Shreya Ghosh bt Monika Batra 11-4, 11-5, 11-8; Jaita Pushilal bt Esha Mongia 11-7, 11-5, 11-2).

Maharashtra ‘A’ bt AP 3-0 (Pooja S. bt K. Harshita 11-8, 11-5, 12-14, 11-9; Mallika bt Nikhat Banu 11-9, 11-9, 11-1, 6-11, 4-11, 11-6; J. Shruti bt K. Bhavana 14-12, 11-6, 11-5).

Pre-quarterfinals: Maharashtra ‘A’ bt UP 3-0 (Shruti Talnikar bt Pooja Kohli 13-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-3; Pooja Sahasrabudhe bt Priyanka Shukla 11-6, 11-9, 11-6; Mallika Bhandarkar bt Tripti Pandey 11-8, 11-4, 11-7).

AP bt Gujarat 3-1 (Nikhat Banu bt Neha Saxena 11-4, 11-9, 7-11, 11-13, 11-6; K. Harshita lost to Nargis Malubhai 7-11, 8-11, 4-11; K. Bhavana bt Palak Naik 9-11, 15-13,11-9, 11-6; Nikhat Banu beat Nargis Malubhai 11-3, 11-8, 10-12, 15-13).

West Bengal bt Rajasthan 3-0.

Delhi bt M.P. 3-1. (Sanya Sehgal bt Payodhi Pattan 11-5, 11-5, 11-3; Esha Monga lost to Pooja Sharma 11-8, 6-11, 8-11, 11-5, 9-11, Manika Batra bt Varsha Hawaldar 11-3, 11-4, 11-3; Sanya Sehgal bt Pooja Sharma 11-6, 11-5, 11-7); Tamil Nadu bt Chandigarh 3-0 (K.K. Narmada bt Meghna 10-12, 4-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-5; Sumana R. Krishnan bt Kalyani 11-3, 11-2, 11-3; N. Vidhya bt Garima 9-11, 11-9, 11-8, 8-11, 17-15).

Maharashtra ‘B’ bt Kerala 3-0 (Vedika Garg bt Aparna Sanil 11-6, 11-7, 11-7; Radhika Patkar bt Shikha Jacob 11-4, 11-6, 11-8; Ashlesha Bodas bt Aryasree S.L. 11-4, 11-4, 11-2).

North Bengal bt Orissa 3-0.

Karnataka bt Assam 3-1 (Poojitha N. lost to Kakoli Lahkar 11-4, 7-11, 5-11, 5-11; Madhuri R. bt Murchana Gohain 11-9, 11-3, 11-5; Nisarga N.P. bt Premee Bora 8-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-8; Kakoli Lahkar lost to Madhuri R. 8-11, 11-4, 11-6, 6-11, 13-11).