top seeded Anannya Basak played her heart out to subdue bespectacled Vidhi Shah, her Mumbai suburbs teammate , 11-5, 9-11, 11-6,11-5, 10-12, 9-11, 11-4 to storm into the youth girls singles final of the of the YMCA-5th Maharashtra State ranking table Tennis tournament, held at Goregaon Sports Club, here today. Anannya thus made her coached Eric Fernandes proud by winning her second ranking title of the season, ,having earlier won at Nashik. She was also finalist in the Thane ranking youth singles also.
Ananya Basak
While another Mumbai Suburbs boy Ashwin Subranian continued to display fine form, as after upsetting top seed Yugandhn Zenda in the quarterfinals, he overpowered Jignesh Rahatwal 7-11, 11-4, 11-8, 12-10,12-10 to make the title round, where he takes on Mandar Hardikar, also from Mumbai Suburbs. Mandar packed off Thane’ Deepit Patil 12-10, 15-13, 11-6,11-7.
Thane’s Shreya Deshpande put up a good fight against top seed Senhora D’souza in the semi finals of Women’s singles. In a seven games thriller, Shreya was unlucky to lose the decider over extra points.
Thane’s Sanish Ambekar, seeded third , having won the men’s singles title earlier, is set to take on seasoned Omkar Torgalkar in the men’s singles title round.
Results:
Youth boys singles: (Semifinals): Ashwin Subramanian (MSD) bt; (4)-Jignesh Rahatwal (MSD) 7-11, 11-4, 11-8, 12-10,12-10; , Mandar Hardikar (MSD) bt; Deepit Patil (Thn) 12-10, 15-13, 11-6,11-7.
(Quarterfinals): Ashwin Subramanian (MSD) bt (1) Yugandh Zende (THN) 11-7, 11-7, 11-9, 8-11, 6-11, 13-11; (4)-Jignesh Rahatwal (MSD) bt (5)-Tejas Kamble (THN) 11-9, 12-10, 9-11, 11-5,11-8; Mandar Hardikar (MSD) bt Dev Shroff (MSD) 11-9,11-7,7-11, 11-7, 16-14; Deepit Patil (Thn) bt Vipul Nandkar (Thn) 11-8, 11-5, 7-11, 11-4, 11-6.
Youth girls singles: (Semifinals): (1)- Anannya Basak (MSD) Bt Vidhi Shah (MSD) 11-5, 9-11, 11-6,11-5, 10-12, 9-11, 11-4; Manushree Patil (MSD) bt (3)- Aditi Sinha (MSD) 11-9. 11-2, 11-7, 11-7.
Women’s singles : (Semifinals): (1)- Senhora D’souza (MCD) bt Shreya Deshpande (THN) 7-11,11-7, 5-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-1, 12-10; (6)- Manushree Patil (MSD) bt(2)- Manasi Chiplunkar (MCD) 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5.
(Quarterfinals): (1)- Senhora D’souza (MCD) bt Mrunmayee Mhatre(MSD) 11-8, 11-8, 11-2, 11-7; Shreya Deshpande (THN) bt Vidhi Shah (MSD) 11-9, 11-1,10-12, 18-16, 11-3; (6)- Manushree Patil (MSD) bt (3)- Esha Joshi (PNA) 11-9,11-4, 11-0, 11-7; (2)- Manasi Chiplunkar (MCD) bt (7)- Anannya Basak (MSD) 11-9, 11-7, 7-11, 11-13, 11-8, 8-11, 11-8.
Men’s singles: (Semifinals): (8)-Omkar Torgalkar (MSD) bt Deepit Patil (THN) 9-11, 11-6,11-9, 11-5, 11-4; (3)-Sanish Ambekar (THN) bt Chinmaya Somaiya (MSD) 11-7, 8-11, 12-14, 7-11, 11-7,13-11, 11-5.
(Quarterfinals): (8)-Omkar Torgalkar (MSD) bt (1)- Yugandh Zende (THN) 11-4, 11-8, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6; Deepit Patil (THN) bt Ravindra Kotian (MSD) 11-5, 11-9, 13-11, 11-7; Chinmaya Somaiya (MSD) bt (7)- Tanmay Rane (MCD) 4-11, 11-8,11-5, 11-8,11-4; (3)-Sanish Ambekar (THN) w/o Tejas Kamble (THN).