Top hosts favourite lanky Swayam Ibrampurkar earned top spot from his group -19 to qualify in the Men’s singles main draw after a tense 3-way battle went on to make men’s singles quarterfinals of the MCF-TSTTA-4-Star District Ranking table tennis tournament, held at Borivali’s Mandpeshwar Civic Federation Sports Complex here today. In the pre-quarterfinals,Swayam faced tough time before he was through with a 11-5, 11-8, 8-11,6-11,11-9 victory over hard-hitting Arnav Karnavar.
Fancied Chinmaya Somaiya, who proved too good for Arnav Borkar and beat him 11-6, 11-3,11-5, while top seed Jash Modi, was equally ruthless to demolish lefthader Nishant Kulkarni, a former state champion , 11-6,11-8, 11-3 and surprise home product Vishesh Sarda, who upset Sharang Gaikar 11-9,11-6,11-5.
Other men’s singles results: Sharveya Samant bt Atharav Rane11-4, 11-6,11-4; Shivam Srivastav bt Harshal ya Shah bt 11-4, 11-6,11-4; Arnav Kshirsagar bt Santosh Kolapate 11-3, 11-6, 7-11,11-6; Bhavitavya Shah bt Mandar Chiplunkar 711, 11-6,12-10,11-8.
Boys U-15 (qualifiers): Gr I- Param Bhiwndkar 1; Ayan Ahar 2. Gr II- Vivaan Thakkar 1; Anmal Kampani 2; Gr. III: Vivek Rohera 1; Zin Shaikh 2; Gr. IV- Zihan Beddingwala 1; Aarav Vora 2; Gr V – Nivaan Sheth 1;SahilMohite 2; Gr VI – Satya Panshal 1; Arnav Dhube 2; Gr VII – DakshTalwar 1; Modsh Shahri 2.