Favourites Maanav Shah and Hiya Mehta proved their mettle as they played with aplomb to outwit their rivals to sail into their respective finals in the junior boys and sub-junior girls singles of the Poinsur Gymkhana’s Promotional table tennis tournament, held under their annual ‘Uttar Mumbai Krida Mahotsav-2017’, at their complex at Kandivali here today.
Hard-hitting Maanav just steamrolled past his rivals, both in the quarterfinals and the semifinals without dropping a game, while Hiya likewise thrashed her rivals with disdain to go through to the title round. Maanav takes on Shubham Samant, who beat Maruti Kasture 11-6,11-7, 11-4in the junior boys singles.Hiya faces Arya Ghag in the junior section and Vidhi P.Shah in the sub-junior singles.
Results:
Jr boys singles (Semifinals): Maanav Shah bt Mayuresh Shinde 11-8, 11-6, 12-10; Shubham Samant bt Maruti Kasture 11-6,11-7, 11-4. (Quarterfinals): Maanav Shah bt Krish Mehta 11-4, 11-3, 11-1; Maruti Kasture bt Sagar Kasture 5-11,11-5, 8-11,11-9, 11-7; Mayuresh Shinde bt Sanskar Basak 11-3,11-13, 11-8, 5-11,11-9; Shubham Sawant bt Harshvardhan Datye 11-8, 11-5, 11-3.
Jr girls singles (Semifinals): Hiya Mehta bt Anagha Walawalkar 11-6, 11-6,11-9; Arya Ghag bt. Divya Keni 11-7, 8-11,9-11,11-7,11-8. (Quarterfinals):Ria Talsania bt Aarya Batwalkar 11-4, 11-7, 11-6; Hiya Mehta bt Koyna Chavan 11-5, 11-7, 11-5; Anagha Walawalkar bt Akshata Shinde 11-6, 11-5, 11-1; Aarya Ghag bt Divya Keni 11-7, 5-11,9-11,11-7, 11-9.
Sub-jr boys singles(Quarterfinals) : Maanav Shah bt Sahaj Singh 12-10, 11-6, 11-6; Soham Mate bt Aryan Dave 11-6, 18-16, 3-11, 13-11; 11-9,11-6; Sagar Kasture bt Mayuresh Shinde 7-11, 11-9,11-6,12-10; Shubham Sawant bt Arnav Borkar 11-4, 14-12, 11-2.
Sub-jr girls singles (Semifinals): Hiya Mehta bt Divya Keni 11-8, 11-8, 11-8;Vidhi P. Shah bt Arya Ghag 5-11, 11-7, 11-5,11-9.
Cadet boys singles (Semifinals) : Arnav Borkar bt Krishna Balaji 11-4, 11-6, 11-23; Kshitij Chikane bt VineetDeepak 11-5, 5-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-3.
Cadet girls singles (Semifinals):Swara Sarfare bt Prachi Desai 11-8, 11-9, 8-11,11-13,11-7;Bhoomi Pitale bt Aarushi Raut 13-11, 15-17,11-6,10-12,11-5;
Midget boys singles (Semifinals): Tavanth Nerlaje bt Dhairya ved 11-13, 11-6,11-6, 3-11, 11-6; Pradyumna Shenoy bt Sutirth Chakraborty 11-8, 11-4, 12-10.