Neha, Omkar enters semis in TT Championship

Vijayawada, Oct 6: The second seed Neha Aggarwal of Delhi and fourth seed Omkar Toglekar of Maharashtra advanced into the semi-finals in the girls and boys singles of the national ranking Table Tennis Championship here this evening.

Neha, who lost the first set to unseeded Niveditha A V of Tamil Nadu won the next straight four sets 9-11, 11-2, 11-4, 11-3, 11-3 in the quarter-final match.

In the other quarter-final in boy's section, Omkar Toglekar (Mah) crushed fifth seed Soumyajit Sarkar of RSPB 7-11, 11-9, 7-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-9.

In the sub-junior boys and girls singles quarterfinal matches, first seed Sathiyan G (TN) stunned Anubhav Bagari of the same state 11-4, 6-11, 11-4, 8-11, 11-5, 11-4 and clinched a place in the semi.

First seed Ankita Das of North Bengal also barged into the semifinal by defeating eighth seed Divya Rajaram (TN) 11-5, 11-6, 11-4, 11-3 in girl's section.

Following were the results of those moved into semis: Young girls singles (quarter finals): Soumi Mondal (RSPB) bt Shamini K (PSPB) 7-11, 11-9, 12-14, 11-8, 12-10, 14-16, 11-7.

Divya Deshpande (Mah) bt Aparna M (TN) 11-8, 11-5, 11-2, 11-7 Prajakta Tipale (RSPB) bt Pallavi Kundu (RSPB) 11-9, 7-11, 11-3, 10-12, 11-5, 11-6.

Young boys singles (quarter finals): Zubin Kumar (PSPPBA) bt Uday S Athreya (Kar) 11-7, 11-4, 11-6, 11-9 Sanil Shetty (Mah) bt Rajath Kamal A (TN) 11-7, 11-4, 6-11, 11-9, 11-6 Abhishek R (IB) bt Arunav Ganguly (PSPB) 7-11, 1-11, 11-4, 11-7, 8-11, 11-5, 11-5.

Sub-junior boys singles (quarter finals) Sanmay Paranjape (Mah) bt Arnab Adhikari (NB) 8-11, 11-1, 11-7, 12-10, 9-11, 11-5. Harmeet Desai (Guj) bt Avik Das (NB) 11-6, 11-8, 8-11, 7-11, 11-6, 12-10.

Sourav Saha (PSPBA) bt Rajib Sarkar (NB) 11-4, 11-6, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6 Sub-junior girls singles (quarter finals): Medha Moitra (NB) bt Camelia Sil (WB) 4-11, 11-3, 15-13, 11-8, 2-11, 11-5. Vidya N (TN) bt Mallika Bhandarkar (Mah) 11-8, 11-9, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9.

Sneha V (TN) bt Charvi Kawle (Mah) 11-7, 8-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-8.

In the junior girls singles matches, 15th seed Sneha V (TN) beat tenth seed Jaita Pushilal (WB) 8-11, 11-7, 14-12, 6-11, 11-3 and moved into pre-quarters. In the other matches Madhuri R (Kar) defeated Jaita Pushilal of (WB) 8-11, 11-7, 14-12, 6-11, 11-3, while second seed Prajakta Tipale (RSPB) pipped Pooja Sharma (MP) by walkover and moved into pre-quarter finals.

Following are those who moved into pre-quarter finals: Mrunmayee Mhatre (Mah) bt Moushami Sanyal (NB) 11-1, 11-7, 11-9.

Shreya Ghosh (WB) bt Vidya N (TN) 11-7, 11-6, 12-10.

Sukhada Kilkarni (Mah) bt Niraja Trivedi (Guj) w/o Gargi Nag (WB) bt Aarushi Asawa (Raj) 11-7, 1-7, 12-10.

Swetha Kumaravel (TN) bt Namita Khedkar (Mah) 11-6, 11-8, 7-11, 7-11, 11-4. Ankita Das (NB) bt Suruthi G (Pon) 11-5, 11-4, 11-6.

Divya Deshpande (Mah) bt Samayeta Mondal (WB) 11-5, 11-2, 11-5.

Adheena K Lathif (Ker) bt Soumi Mondal (RSPB) w/o.

Sanya Sehgal (Dli) bt Anumita Tarafdar (NB) 11-9, l1-5, 4-11, 11-6 Pooja Sahasrabuddhe (Mah) bt Sneha D V (TN) 10-12, 11-6, 11-6, 10-12, 11-7.

Agomani Mitra (WB) bt Nikhat Banu (AP) 11-7, 2-11, 12-10, 11-6.

Priti Mokashi (Mah) bt Tonanya Dutta (NB) w/o.

In the women singles matches, fifth seed Swarna J of Tamil Nadu beat Anandita Chakraborty of RSPB, 11-3,7-11,11-9,11-7,7-11,11-8 and moved into the pre-quarter finals. Neha aggarwal (12th seed) of delhi defeated Deepali Javeri Namjoshi of Maharashtra, 11-2,5-11,8-11,4-11,11-7,11-6,11-9 and Janhavi Deshpande of Maharashtra stunned fifteenth seed sumana bose of rspb 8-11, 11-7,11-8,11-9,11-8 to clinch a place in the pre-quarter finals.

Following were the results of pre-quarters: Vishaka Vijay (pspb) bt Sanya Sehgal (Delhi) 11-8,11-4,11-3,11-6 Poulomi Ghatak (PSPB) bt Sathyabama N (TN) 11-8,9-11,11-6,8-11,11-4,11-7, Pradeepa T (PSPB) bt Sukhada Kulkarni (Mah) 11-8,14-12,11-6,11-7.

Mahurik Patkar (Mah) bt Gargi Nag (WB) 11-7,11-5,11-3,11-8 Soumi Mondal (RSPB) bt Nandita Saha (PSPB) 7-11,11-8,11-6,6-11,7-11,11-5,11-6 Montu Ghosh (PSPB) bt Pooja Sahasrabuddhe (Mah) 11-7,15-13,11-5,11-3 Mousami Paul (PSPB) bt Divya Deshpande (Mah) 11-8,9-11,11-6,11-7,5-11,11-5 Sushmita Roy (PSPB) bt Indu N R (PSPB) 10-12,11-6,11-5,11-5,9-11,11-8 Sangeetha S (TN) bt Pallavi Kundu (RSPB) 11-9,11-9,11-8,7-11,11-4 Kasturi Chakraborty (PSPB) bt Aslesha Bodas (Mah) 11-6,11-9,11-7,11-9 Shamini K (PSPB) bt Prajakta Tipale (RSPB) 5-11,11-7,11-7,11-3,11-6 Mouma Das (PSPB) bt Aparna M (TN) 11-7,11-6,12-10,11-3 Sayanthika Kundu (RSPB) bt Shalmili Mhatre (Mah) 11-9,11-7,11-5,5-11,7-11,9-11,11-8 Mamta Prabhu (RSPB) bt Vishaka Vijay (PSPB) 9-11,11-8,9-11,15-13,7-11,11-9,12-10.

In the second round of junior boys singles matches played here this evening, first seed G Sathiyan of Tamil Nadu after losing first set won the next two and lost the fourth again and won the fifth with score 9-11,14-12,12-10,11-13 11-7 in an exiciting finish and moved into the pre-quarters. Sixteenth seed shiladitya nag of West Bengal trounced Anjelo Porathur of Kerala in straight sets 11-4,11-8,13-11 while eighth seed Shubham Sarma of Andhra pradesh defeated Adish Rana of Maharashtra in similar fashion 11-9,11-1,12-10 to move into the pre-quarter finals.

Following players had moved to pre-quarters: Somraj Roy (NB) bt Dipanjan Choudhury (wb) 9-11,9-11,11-4,11-8,11-9 Sourav Saha (PSPBA) bt Ch SSV Ramana (AP) 11-3,11-5,11-5 Karthik P (TN) bt Akhil Athresh (Kar) 11-7,11-9,10-12,2-11,11-6 Prasanna S (TN) bt Souvik Kar (WB) 11-13,11-8,4-11,15-13,11-6 Soumyajit Ghosh (NB) bt Rahul Kumar (Bihar) w/o Mohit Verma (PSPBA) bt Shreyan Das (Orissa) 11-8,11-9,11-6 Prabakaran E (TN) bt Raj Mondal (NB) 8-11,11-9,11-7,11-9 Sushovan Das (WB) bt Sambhav Jain (PSPBA) 11-9,5-11,11-6,9-11,11-8 Martand Biniwale (Mah) bt Vishalkumar Reddy (AP) 7-11,11-2,6-11,11-4,11-6 Venkataramanan (TN) bt Utkarsh Gupta (Raj) 11-4,11-9,11-4 Hharmeet Desai (Guj) bt A R Navaneeth (Kar) 14-12,11-6,11-7 Nitin V (PSPBA) bt Muthukrishnan (TN) 11-8,7-11,11-6,11-7 Shlok Kamdar (Mah) bt Sougata Sarkar (WB) 11-8,11-7,11-8.

In the men singles matches in main draw, following were those who moved into the second round by defeating their opponents in the first round. Results: Jitendra G (RSPB) bt James Joseph (Mah) 11-3,11-1,11-7,11-6 Sivananda Seshadri (TN) bt Jayadip Das (WB) 11-6,11-7,11-8,17-15 Rajesh R (LIC) bt Arpit Bhopalkar (MP) 13-11,11-5,13-11,11-9 Bhushan Singh Thakur (Mah) bt Janak Raj (Punjab) 8-11,11-4,11-9,11-5,11-4 Jayanta Sarkar (WB) bt Amit Das (RSPB) 8-11,13-11,8-11,11-8,13-11,11-6 Ranbir Das (PSPB) bt Srivatsa K (IA AD) 11-7,11-2,11-9,8-11,12-10 Shubham Sarma (AP) bt Ramesh Babu R (IB) 11-7,11-9,11-9,13-11 Zubin Kumar (PSPBA) bt Adarsh P (Ker) 11-9,11-6,11-3,12-10 Omkar Toglekr (Mah) bt Chiranjib Choudhury (WB) 11-7,11-6,11-5,12-10 Devesh Karia (PSPBA) bt Lekh Raj (Bihar) w/o Subhadip Das (WB) bt Prabakaran E (TN) 11-6,11-8,11-5,7-11,11-9 Pathik Mehta (Guj) bt Ayyappan S (Puducherry) 11-5,11-1,11-2,11-6 Rajath Kamal A (TN) bt Indeebar Chattarjee (OFSCB) w/o Uday s Athreya (Kar) bt Somnath Ghosh (AP) 8-11,11-7,11-7,11-6,11-8 Birupakhya Saha (NB) bt Shlok Kamdar (Mah) 15-13,9-11,9-11,9-11,11-7,11-7,11-6

Amal Raj A (RSPB) bt Shreyan Das (Orissa) 11-8,11-9,11-3,11-6 Sourabh Chakraborty (RSPB) bt Vasu V (IB) 11-7,11-8,11-7,11-8 Raja R S (TN) bt Nbeeloy Basak (Mah) 11-5,11-3,8-11,11-6,11-7 Sanil Shetty (Mah) bt Debashish Ghosh (NB) 11-4,11-2,13-11,11-8 Jignesh Jaiswal (Guj) bt Deepesh Singh (AP) 11-8,7-11,11-8,11-4,11-7 Shibaji Dutta (PSPB) bt Samson Selvakumar (TN) 8-11,9-11,8-11,11-9,11-7,11-8,12-10 Somraj Roy (NB) bt Vinod G (RSPB) w/o Arup Basak (PSPB) bt Amarnath Das (NB) 11-3,11-4,13-11,11-5 Arunav Ganguly (PSPB) bt Subham Kundu (WB) 11-7,7-11,11-7,4-11,9-11,11-4,11-8 Anal Kashyap (PSPB) bt Sumit Kundu (WB) 11-3,11-5,12-10,13-15,11-9 Anirban Tarafdar (Kar) bt Eric Fernandes (Mah) w/o Soumyajit Sarkar (RSPB) bt Sambhav Jain (PSPBA) 11-7,11-9,11-7,11-7 Abhishek R (IB) bt Himansh P Kala (Delhi) 6-11,11-6,11-8,11-6,11-4 Arundhar (AP) bt Subhajit Saha Jr (OFSCB) w/o Raman S (PSPB) bt Subash M (TN) 10-12,7-11,11-4,11-4,11-4,11-9 Anirban Nandi (RSPB) bt Aman Balgu (Raj) 11-5,11-8,11-8,4-11,11-9 Subham Chowdhry (PSPB) bt Prithviraj Bose (RSPB) 11-7,13-15,15-13,8-11,10-12,14-12,11-2.

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