Date:29/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/29/stories/2008082956871800.htm

Sport - Table Tennis

Pranshu, Esha win titles

NEW DELHI: Pranshu Gupta and Esha Monga posted easy victories to win the boys and girls singles titles in the second Jiwan Mal Nahata memorial table tennis tournament at the Community Centre, Panchkuian Road, on Thursday.

Utkarsh Gupta (sub-junior boys), Manika Batra (sub-junior girls), Chirag Kapoor (kids-boys), Aanchal Malhotra (kids-girls) and Amisha Dhall (kids under-8) were the other winners of the day.

The results:

Final: Boys: Pranshu Gupta bt Utkarsh Gupta 12-10, 11-8, 11-4, 11-8. Girls: Esha Monga bt Sanya Sehgal 11-9, 11-7, 11-8, 14-12.

Sub-junior boys: Utkarsh Gupta bt Dev Khandelwal 11-5, 8-11, 11-8, 15-13. Sub-junior girls: Manika Batra bt Jagriti Vermani 11-9, 11-6, 11-8.

Kids (boys): Final): Chirag Kapoor bt Karan Shamra 8-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-3, 11-8. Kids (girls): Aanchal Malhotra bt Shrishti Gupta 5-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-8, 11-8. Tity tots (under-8): Amisha Dhall bt Aditya Gupta 11-8, 11-3, 11-7.

Semifinals: Men: Anshul Garg bt Ajai Wadhwa 3-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-7, 7-11, 11-3; Pranshu Gupta bt Sameer Sahni 12-10, 13-11, 11-3, 11-9. Women: Nikita Rautela bt Sanya Sehgal 11-9, 11-8, 12-14, 10-12, 8-11, 12-10, 11-4; Esha Monga bt Vidhushi Vats 11-9, 6-11, 11-13, 15-13, 11-5, 11-9.