Mumbai’s Omkar Torgalkar and Shweta Parte have won the 1st Maharashtra State Ranking Table tennis tournament of the season at Symbiosis Sports centre, Pune in the Men’s and Women’s section respectively. The tournament was held under the auspices of Maharashtra State Table Tennis Association.
Omkar Torgalkar
Omkar who has still kept himself physically fit used all his experience to defeat his younger opponent Yugandh Zende from Thane in four straight games to prove his supremacy, while lifting the men’s crown; while the Reserve Bank Officer and 4th seeded Shweta Parte defeated 2nd seed Mumbai player & Dena Bank Officer Mamata Prabhu 4-1 to lift the Women’s singles crown.
Shweta Parte
Earlier Shweta had defeated top seed Mallika Bhandarkar ( Nagpur) to reach the finals. This is certainly a very good performance from Shweta to begin this new season . Only few days ago Shweta had won the 1st division Inter Club Title for her team MLWB-KKB along with her partners Senhora D’souza and Mamata Prabhu.
Though Yugandh Zende lost in the Men’s finals, he bagged the Youth Boys Singles ( U-21) crown with ease, after defeating Tejas kamble in the finals. The Youth Girls singles title was won by Snehal Patil, who had to fight hard to score 4-3 narrow win over Samruddhi Kulkarni.