Top men seeds enter quarters
Fifth seed G Sathiyan had to bright out his best against Haryana’s Sarthak Gandhi to enter the men’s singles quarterfinals in the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Kotla Vijaybhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here on Saturday.
Hyderabad: Fifth seed G Sathiyan had to bright out his best against Haryana’s Sarthak Gandhi to enter the men’s singles quarterfinals in the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Kotla Vijaybhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here on Saturday.
The PSPB paddler won 4-2 but sixth and seven-seeded Devesh Karia of Gujarat and Rajasthan’s Sudhanshu Grover, respectively, made their exit in the pre-quarterfinals. Haryana’s Jubin Kumar accounted for Grover with a 4-1 verdict while PSPB’s Subhajit Saha thumped Karia 4-0.
Making a mockery of the seeding, both unseeded Reeth Rishya and Krittwika Sinha Roy sent No 3 and 4 seeds K Shamini (PSPB) and Divya Deshpande (Mah) packing in the pre-quarters.
Sixth seed Pooja Sahasrabuddhe struggled to overcome West Bengal’s Ayhika Mukherjee 4-2 and No 7 Madhurika Patkar and No 2 Mouma Das both had easy quarterfinal passages beating Delhi’s Neha Agarwal and RBI’s Shweta Parte, respectively, with 4-1 margins.
Results (All pre-quarterfinal): Men: A Sharath Kamal bt Lalrin Puia (Miz) 4-1, Sanil Shetty bt Sourav Saha (PSPB) 4-1, G Sathiyan bt Sarthak Gandhi (Har) 4-2, Harmeet Desai bt R Abhishek (TN) 4-1, Soumyajit Ghosh bt Arjun Ghosh (WB) 4-1, Subhajit Saha bt Devesh Karia (Guj) 4-0, Jubin Kumar (Har) bt Sudhanshu Grover (Raj) 4-1, Anothony Amalraj bt Subash Mani (IAAD) 4-0; Women: Manika Batra bt Senhora D’souza (Mah) 4-3, Mousumi Paul bt Nikhat Banu (Telg) 4-3, Ankita Das bt Pallabi Kundu (RBI) 4-3, Krittwika Sinha Roy bt Divya Deshpande (Mah) 4-0, Reeth Risha bt K Shamini (PSPB) 4-0, Pooja Sahasrabudhe bt Ayhika Mukherjee (WB) 4-2), Madhurika Patkar bt Neha Agarwal (Del) 4-1, Mouma Das bt Shweta Parte (RBI) 4-1.
