Indians dominate opening day of Indian junior open TT tourney

Panaji, Sep 12 (UNI) Indians dominated the opening day of the Indian Junior Open Table Tennis, an ITTF World Junior Circuit event, which commenced here at Teleigao Community Center today.

This event will conclude on September 15.

The day, however, will be remembered for the walk-overs against Pakistani players in the first league matches as the contingent reached here only this afternoon.

The tourney was early inaugurated by Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat.

Results: Cadet girls' singles event first stage: Group 1: Medha Moitra (Ind) bt Saniya Sehgal (Ind) (3-0) 11-8, 11-8, 11-4; Group 2: Li isa Belle-Siyun (Sin) wo Muzammil Jawed (Pak); Group 3: Ankita Das (Ind) bt Sawettabut Suthasinee (Tha) (3-2) 14-12, 8-11, 11-5, 1-11, 11-7; Group 4: Mallika Bhandarkar (Ind) bt Esha Monga (Ind) (3-1) 9-11, 12-10, 11-8, 11-5; Look Sylvia (Sin) wo Khurshed Maliha (Pak); Cadet boys' singles event first stage: Group 1: Soumyajit Ghosh (Ind) bt Sonam Adikari (Bhu) [3-0] 11-1, 11-3, 11-9; Group 2: Sourav Saha (Ind) wo Muhammad Abdullah (Pak) group 3: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (Ind) bt Dorji Namgay (Bhu) (3-0) 11-4, 11-7, 11-6; Pang Xue Jie (Sin) bt Prangthong Udomrak (Tha) (3-1) 11-9, 6-11, 11-6, 11-8; Group 4: Lim Jie Yan (Sin) wo Rameez Muhammad (Pak); Harmeet Desai (Ind) bt Sanmay Paranjpe (Ind) (3-1) 11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 11-8; Group 5: Nitin Vasanth Philips (Ind) bt Abhishek Yadav (Ind) (3-0) 11-4, 11-7, 11-7; Kumar Raj (Bhu) wo Hanif Muhammad Zeeshan Arshad (Pak) Junior girls' singles event first stage: Group 1: Wakamiya Misako (Jpn) bt Heng Wei Chen(Sin) (3-0) 11-3, 15-13, 11-3; Group 2: Fuji Yuko (Jpn) bt Look Sylvia (Sin) (3-0) 11-8, 11-4, 11-8; Group 3: Neha Aggarwal (Ind) wo Hanif Mubeen (Pak) Group 4: Sim Kai Xin Zena (Sin) wo Ayesha Khan (Pak); Pooja Sahasrabuddhe (Ind) bt Shrestha Elisha (Nep) [3-0] 11-1, 11-4, 11-3; Group 5: Tanaka Ayano (Jpn) bt Shrestha Nabita (Nep) (3-0) 11-6, 11-9, 11-6; Junior boys' singles event first stage: Group 1: Miuchi Kentaro (Jpn) wo Awais Hassan Syed (Pak); Udomsilp Chanakan (Tha) bt Anud Joshi (Nep) (3-0) 11-7, 11-5, 11-1; Group 2: Ueda Jin (Jpn) wo Rahim Abdul (Pak) Group 3: Assar Omar (Egy) bt Sing Elish (Nep) (3-0) 11-6, 11-4, 11-8; Shubham Sharma (Ind) wo Raza Shahzaib (Pak) Group 4: Soumyajit Ghosh (Ind) wo Raza Faheem (Pak) Group 5: Sanil Shetty (Ind) bt Prangthong Udomrak (Tha) (3-0) 11-6, 11-7, 11-1.

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