Table Tennis Special
J.P. Olympia, Andheri teams bagged 4 gold medals and two bronze medals, while PTKS, Vile Parle teams bagged 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze medals on the final day of the TSTTA Annual Inter Club Table Tennis league matches, played at Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul( PTKS), Vile Parle last weekend .
J.P. Olympia Men’s teams proved their dominance in the 2nd ,3rd and 4th division matches, while PTKS Women proved their supremacy, winning the Women’s 2nd division title defeating MCF Club in their crucial deciding match. Their other Women’s team bagged a Silver after losing the crucial finals to VPTTA. PTKS Men’s team represented by Arnav Karnavar, Sharveya Samant and Drruv Shah however bagged another Gold in the Men’s 1st Division league.
Trophies presented to all the Winners
PTKS Women’s team in the 2nd division comprising of rising juniors like Niva Chougule, Aayana Beddingwala along with Amruta Phadke especially put up a very good show. In the same division, MCF’s Pranjal Shinde remained unbeaten, winning all her matches in this league. Her ability to counter attack her opponent with sure finish was simply superb. Pranjal received good support in crucial doubles matches from her partner Siddhi Kolekar.
Similarly, Shweta Parte and Ananya Chande displayed their good form winning all crucial matches for their team VPTTA. Shweta’s match against young Sana D’souza was one of the best matches played on the final day. Down 0-2, Shweta using her long experience, fought gallantly to take the next three games. Her team partner Ananya Chande also did well to offer good support by winning her matches.
PTKS Girls Winners of 2nd Division
A staggering 77 teams with 300 + players participated from 22 clubs and TT academies located in Mumbai Suburbs. The league matches on home and away basis were played for 20 days during this month. All the deciding matches and finals for men and women were played for last 4 days. What is important is that the participation of youngsters in the age group of 10 to 14 was more in number. Yet, some veteran players also put up a good show, while playing for their respective teams. Prominent among them was Bindesh Chitalia, who won most of the crucial matches for his MCF Club team. No wonder his team bagged Silver in 3rd division.
Under the supervision of Hon. Secretary of TSTTA Mr. Sameer Bhate and his team, good arrangements were made at the venue for smooth conduct of this annual club league. TSTTA managing committee also received good support from PTKS organisers headed by Sachin D’Souza, and backed by Naveen Verghese, Rakesh Nigudkar, Sumedh Patekar, Sahil Kute, Shravani Dhapre, Manish Deodhar, Raaquib and others. Speaking about the grand success of this Inter Club League, TSTTA Hon. Secretary thanked all the participating clubs, players and his dedicated organising team members.
Results of all Finals :
Ist Division ( Men): Winners – PTKS ‘A’ ( Arnav Karnavar, Sharveya Samant, & Dhruv Shah); R-up : V.P.T.T.A.- ‘A’: ( Arnav Borkar, Parth Magar, Atharva Gupte & Harsh Maniar ) .
Ist Division ( Women) : Winners: V.P.T.T.A. ‘A’ ( Shweta Parte Ananya Chande); R-Up : P.T.K.S. ‘A’ ( Risha Mirchandani,Sana D’Souza, Urvi Churi).
IInd Division : ( Men) : Winners : J.P. Olympia –‘C’( Mohit Vaishnav, Akash Sahoo, Ryan Hooda, Prakash Singh); R-Up : Santacruz Gymkhana ‘B’ (Prateek Tulsiani, Ahan Gosar, Ekansh Madani, Shlok Jhaveri).
IInd Division ( Women) : Winners: P.T.K.S. ‘B’ ( Niva Chaugule, Aayana Beddingwala, Amruta Phadke); R-Up: M.C.F. Borivali ( Pranjal Shinde, Siddhi Kolekar & Rajeshwari Mehtre).
Division III A ( Men): Winners : J.P. Olympia ‘E’ ( Arwind,Priyankush Bose, Shankar Ganesh, Shivraj Patil); R-Up : Guru TT Centre ( Moksh Shahri, Jagjeet Gill, Ritesh Poojari, D. Rodrigues, Aroop Das).
Division III B ( Men) : J.P. Olympia ‘D’ : (Aayan Athar, Pranay Jain, S. Patil, Akarshan Yadav, Purnavo Dey); R-Up : M.C.F Borivali ‘D’( Bindesh Chitalia, Prafulla Wagh, Mahesh Shetye, Amit Phadke , Ujwal Shah).
Division IV A (Men) : Winners : K.R.C. ‘B’ Kandivali (Kalpesh Parmar, Yatarth Vora, Nikunj Shah,Girish Acharya , Krishav Panchal); R-Up: Star Academy ‘B’ (Piyush Ahire, Vijay Yadav, Adinath Gaikwad).
Division IV B( Men) : J.P. Olympia ‘G’ ( Geet Shah, Ashis Das, Sanjay Guha, Nishan); R-Up: Star Academy ‘C’ (Nirav Urankar, Kiran Parmar, Omkar Makena).