78th Junior and Youth National TT
Maharashtra’s young paddlers continued their dominant showing, with four teams romping into the Team Championship in quarter-finals of the 11Even Sports 78th Junior and Youth National TT Championships at the SAMA Indoor Complex, in Vadodara on Saturday.
The Maharashtra A Junior Boys and Girls team s scored 3-1 and 3-0 wins over North Bengal respectively, while the Maharashtra A Youth Boys and Maharashtra B Youth Girls made the grade with 3-0 and 3-1 wins over TN and UP respectively.
Also making the Youth Girls quarter-finals was Maharashtra A, who routed Gujarat 3-0.
Shaurya Pednekar was the star performer for Maharashtra B’s win over North Bengal in the Junior Boys winning his singles encounter and then combing with Aniruddha to win the doubles. Aniruddha, who had lost the first singles, then wrapped up the tie with a 3-1 win over S Malakar.
Results:
Junior Boys: Maharashtra A bt North Bengal 3-1 Aniruddha Marathe lost to Jayabrata Bhattacharjeee 2-3 (11-8, 11-8, 9-11, 7-11, 11-13); Shaurya Pednekar bt Subhajit Malakar 3-0 (11-1, 11-3, 11-6); Shaurya Pednekar/Aniruddha Marathe bt J Bhattacharjee/S Malakar 3-1 (11-6, 11-13, 11-5, 11-9); Aniruddha Marathe bt S Malakar 3-0 (11-9, 12-10, 11—9)
Junior Girls: Maharashtra A bt North Bengal 3-0 (Shruti Amrute bt Puja Paul (11-4, 11-2, 7-11, 11-8); Manushree Patil br Nikita Sarkar 3-1 (11-3, 11-9, 5-11, 11-6); A=S Amrute/M Patil by P Paul/Priyanka 3-1 (11-8, 11-7, 7-111, 14-12);
Youth Boys: Maharashtra A bt TN 3-0 (Siddhesh Pande bt Ananth Devrajan 3-2 (10-12, 7-11, 11-5, 14-12, 11-5); Ravindra Kotiyan bt Nikhil Suresh 3-2 (7-11, 11-3, 11-6, 9-11, 11-8); Sanish Ambekar bt S Sivaramakrishnan 3-0 (11-2, 11-7, 11-4)
Youth Girls: Maharashtra B bt UP 3-1 Manasi Chiiplunkar lost to Suhana Narjinary 1-3 (9-11, 11-13, 11-7, 9-11); Ashlesha Trehan bt Tanu Gupta 3-1 (13-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-6); Shreya Deshpande bt Kavya Gupta 3-0 (11-4, 11-6, 12-10); Ashlesha Trehan bt Suhana narjinary 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-9)
Youth Girls: Maharashtra A bt Gujarat 3-0 Srushti Haleangadi bt MSanskruti Malpani 3-0 (11-6, 11-8, 11-7); Manushree Patil bt Hely Shah 3-1 (11-3, 11-8, 8-11, 11-8); Shruti Amrute bt Simin Antodaria 3-0 (12-10, 11-2, 11-3);