Maharashtra ‘A’ women’s team entered the semi-finals of the Team Championship when they blanked out Tamil Nadu 3-0 in the 11Even Sports 78th Senior Nationals Table Tennis Championship and played at the Manesar Sports Club on Wednesday.
Pooja Sahasrabudhe
The Maharashtra team comprising of Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, Charvi Kawle and Shruti Amrute were in total control and comfortably defeated their opponents from the south. Chavi was stretched by Amrutha Pushpak and this was one match that could have gone either way. In the end Chavi used the opportunities well to convert some astonishing winners.
Charvi kawle
In the semifinals to be played on Thursday, PSPB will take on Maharashtra ‘A’ and AAI will meet West Bengal.
Earlier in the pre-quarter-final round, Maharashtra ‘A’ defeated Rajashtan 3-2 while Maharashtra ‘B’ were beaten 0-3 by PSPB.
Meanwhile, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) men entered the team semifinals when they tamed Rajasthan 3-0. They will now take on Gujarat who beat Tamil Nadu 3-1 in the first semi-final while it will be Haryana versus West Bengal in the second.
Results:
Women Quarterfinals: PSPB bt North Bengal 3-2 (Madhurika Patkar bt Takeme Sarkar 11-9, 9-11, 11-4, 11-5, Manika Batra lost to Sagarika Mukherjee 9-11, 5-11, 7-11, Reeth Rishya lost to Sukanya Bose 6-11, 12-10, 9-11, 5-11, Madhurika bt Sagarika 11-7, 11-6, 11-7, Manika bt Takeme 11-7, 11-9, 9-11, 11-9).
Maharashtra A bt Tamil Nadu 3-0 (Pooja Sahasrabuddhe bt Vidya Narasimhan 11-6, 11-6, 11-8, Charvi Kawle bt Amrutha Pushpak 11-12, 10-12, 11-9, 11-9, 11-7, Shruti Amrute bt Selenadeepthi Selvakumar 8-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-6).
AAI bt MP 3-2 (Archana Kamath bt Saswati Ghosh 12-10, 7-11, 11-7, 11-2, Frenaz Chipia lost to Anusha Kutumbale 8-11, 7-11, 10-12, Ayhika Mukherjee bt Himani Chaturvedi 11-8, 11-5, 11-4, Archana lost to Anusha 9-11, 7-11, 8-11, Frenaz bt Saswati 11-9, 11-8, 13-11).
West Bengal bt Karanataka 3-0 (Suthirtha Mukherjee bt Kushi Viswanath 11-7, 13-11, 11-1, Anindita Chakraborty bt Swetha Kumaravel 11-8, 11-5, 11-7, Moumita Datta bt Spoorthi Venkatesh 11-9, 8-11, 7-11, 13-10, 11-9).
PQF: PSPb bt Maharashtra B 3-0, North Bengal bt Assam 3-0, Maharashtra A bt Rajasthan 3-2, Tamil Nadu bt Gujarat 3-0, AAI bt Odisha 3-0, Madhya Pradesh bt Haryana 3-1, Karnataka bt Delhi 3-2, West Bengal bt Telangana 3-0.
Men Quarterfinals: PSPB bt Rajasthan 3-0 (Sanil Shetty bt Sudhanshu Grover 11-8, 11-7, 11-5, G.Sathiyan bt Pankan Kumar 11-9, 11-5, 11-8, Harmeet Desai bt Subham Ojab 9-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-7), Gujarat bt Tamil Nadu 3-1 (Jignesh Jaiswal lost to Abhishek Ravichandran 3-11, 11-5, 6-11, 3-11, Devesh Karia bt Subash Mani 13-11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-8, Harsh Sachanandani bt Leimapokpam 11-8, 11-3, 11-6, Devesh Karia bt Abhishek R 11-2, 11-9, 11-5), West Bengal bt Maharashtra A 3-1 (Arjun Ghosh lost to Ravindra Kotiyan 11-9, 10-12, 11-5, 14-16, 7-11, Anirban Nandi bt Siddhesh Pande 9-11, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8, Sougata Sarkar bt Sanish Ambekar 11-6, 11-4, 11-5, Arjun bt Siddhesh 11-5, 11-9, 11-9), Haryana bt AAI 3-2 (Soumyajit Ghosh bt Sushmit Sriram 11-6, 11-6, 11-6, Jubin Kumar lost to Sarthak Gandhi 7-11, 8-11, 8-11, Sourav Saha bt Anirban Ghosh 7-11, 11-5, 15-13, 7-11, 11-6, Soumyajit lost to Sarthak 11-9, 11-7, 12-14, 8-11, 10-12, Jubin bt Sushmit 11-8, 7-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-8).
PQF: PSPB bt UP 3-0, Rajasthan bt Delhi 3-0, Tamil Nadu bt Karnataka 3-2, Gujarat bt Chhattisgarh 3-1, Maharashtra A bt North Bengal 3-0, West Bengal bt Telangana 3-1, AAI bt Maharashtra B 3-0, Haryana bt Pondicherry 3-0.