Favourite Vedika Jaiswal had to fight hard to overcome stiff resistence from Harinee Shah in the Quarter finals of Girls U-11 Singles at the 4 Star All Mumbai District Ranking Table Tennis tournament organised by Khar Gymkhana and played under the auspices of TSTTA and MCDTTA.
Vedika who won the first game easily, had difficulty to counter the attack of left hander Harinee in the second game and lost that game 7-11. In the third game Vedika bounced back to take 2-1 lead. But, in the fourth game harinee took every opportunity to attack first and posed a challenge for Vedika, who managed to take this game and match at 13-11. Vedika is coached by Eric Fernandes, while Harinee is trained by Ojas Ghadi.
In the other three quarter finals of Girls U-11 Singles, Ritanya Deolekar looked very confident while beating Heer Bhatt in three straight games. Palakh Jhawar and Anaysha Dwivedi also recorded easy victories over their opponents Radhya Vora and Vini Kulkarni respectively, to enter semi finals of this event.
In another interesting match in the Girls U-19 Quarter finals Shravani Loke put up a good show while overcoming Urvi Churi in a five games battle. In Boys U-19 Quarter finals Parth Magar beat Sanskar Basak 3-2 in a thrilling match. In two ther interesting matches in Girls U-19 Singles, Bhoomi Pitale beat Anshita Tamhankar 3-1, while Sana D’Souza beat Arpita Borhade 3-1, Winning the fourth ganme on 13-11.
Main draw matches of Men’s Singles and Veterans( Men’s) Singles 39+ will be played after 5.30 pm today evening.
The Results in detail :
Girls U/11 [Main Draw]
Quarter Finals
Rittanya Samir Deolekar Bt. Heer Mihir Bhatt ( 11-4, 11-5, 11-6 )
Anaysha Rahul Dwivedi Bt. Vini Gaurav Kulkarni ( 11-7, 11-4, 11-1 )
Palakh Sunilkumar Jhawar Bt. Radhya Nishant Vora ( 11-3, 11-3, 11-1 )
Vedika Jaiswal Bt. Harinee Parag Shah ( 11-3, 7-11, 11-3, 13-11 )
Girls U/19 [Main Draw]
Quarter Finals
Shravani Kalpesh Loke Bt. Urvi Siddharth Churi ( 6-11, 13-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6 )
Sampada Ganadeep Bhiwandkar Bt. Sana Sachin Dsouza ( 6-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-6 )
Hardee Chetan Patel Bt. Bhoomi Shantaram Pitale ( 11-3, 7-11, 11-3, 11-6 )
Boys U/19 [Main Draw]
Quarter Finals
Sagar Babu Kasture Bt. Yuvraj Pradeep Yadav ( 9-11, 11-2, 11-7, 11-9 )
Ayush Girish Sonawane Bt. Kathit Mihir Shah ( 11-3, 11-8, 11-8 )
Parth Magar Bt. Sanskar Basak ( 11-8, 11-9, 4-11, 9-11, 11-8 )
Vineet Deepak Bt. Ansh Manoj Karnavar ( 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 )
Girls U/17 [Main Draw]
Quarter Finals
Urvi Siddharth Churi Bt. Ishika Sumit Punjabi ( 11-1, 11-5, 11-4 )
Hardee Chetan Patel Bt. Vaishnavi Jaiswal ( 11-7, 11-6, 11-3 )
Sana Sachin Dsouza Bt. Arpita Borhade ( 8-11, 11-6, 11-8, 13-11 )
Bhoomi Shantaram Pitale Bt. Anshita Tamhankar ( 8-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-6 )
VETERAN WOMEN 39+ [Main Draw]
Quarter Finals
Ujwala Milind Marathe Bt. Reena Vikram Bhagat ( 11-9, 11-5, 4-11, 11-9 )
Preeti Pardeshi Bt. Manisha Rajendra Pradhan ( 11-8, 11-6, 11-9 ).