Yashodham High School girls Paridhi Potnis and Shravani Loke not only won the Girls Under 16 Championship Team event, but also bagged the titles in their respective age groups- Under-16 and Under -14 respectively, in the MSSA Inter School Table tennis Championship, which concluded at Prabodhankar Thackeray Kreeda Sankul, Vile Parle today.
Girls U-16 team finals
In the Girls Under 16 team finals Paridhi and Shravani combined together very well when they scored a 2-0 fluent win over Poorna Prajna School. In their individual finals. Paridhi beat Arya Ghag from her own school in Girls Under 16 section, while Shravani beat Pearl Amalsadwala in a five games thriller to win the title of Girls Under 14 section.
Boys match
Yashodhan Girls Under 12 team however lost in the finals of their Under 12 team event to Swami Vivekanand 0-2 , to satisfy with Runners up prize. The other team results are as follows:
Boys Under 12 Team finals : TC & JCS beat Hiranandani School 2-0
Boys Under -16 Team Finals : JNS beat Aditya Birla 2-0.
There were two well contested matches in the individual events . In Boys’ Under 12 section, Vdant Agrawal in spite of leading 2-0, lost the next two games to Tavanth Niralje and had to recover and fight hard in the decider to win the game and match at 11-8. In another interesting match between two little girls in Under 10 section, saw Niva Chougule overcoming a tough fight from Aarya Redkar . Down 1-2 at one stage Niva won the fourth and fifth game to lift the title.
Niva Chougule Girls U-10 winner poses with PTKS Chief Mr. Arwind Prabhu
Results of all individual final matches in different Boys and Girls age groups :
Boys Under 10 Final : Vivaan Thakkar beat Arnav Wagh 11-4, 11-7, 12-10.
Boys Under 12 Final: Vedant Agrawal beat Tavanth Neralje 11-5,11-8, 5-11,7-11, 11-8.
Boys Under 14 Final : Chaitanya Ahuja beat Kshitij Chakne 11-2,11-8,11-5.
Boys Under 16 Final : Mainak Nistala beat Arnav Karnavar 12-10, 11-9, 6-11, 11-6.
Girls Under 10 Final : Niva Chaughule beat Aary redkar 6-11,11-8, 2-11, 11-7, 11-7.
Girls Under 12 Final : Urvi Churi beat Swara Salgaonkar 11-7, 11-4,11-8.
Girls Under 14 Final : Shravani Loke beat Pearl Amalsadwala 10-12, 10-12, 11-7, 11-7, 11-9.
Girls Under 16 Final : Paridhi Potnis beat Arya Ghag 11-4,15-13, 11-9.
Mr. Wiron Vaz welcoming the guets of honour before prize distribution function.
It was a very well organised tournament and the Mumbai School Sports Association ( MSSA) the organisers and their venue partners Prabodhankar Thackeray Kreeda Sankul( PTKS) combined very well by displaying good team work. From the organisers side Mr. Wiron Vaz ,Mr. Arthur Fernandes , and Mr. Sebastian were personally present , while from PTKS side Mr. Arwind Prabhu and his team comprising of Samir Bhate, Yogesh Desai, Nveen Varghese, Manish Deodhar, Rakesh Nigudkar and others offered all the support to make this tournament a grand success.
( L to R) MSSA Officials Mr. Arthur Fernandes, Mr. Wiron Vaz and Mr. Sebastian.
On the final day Mr. Prakash Tulpule Hon. Secretary of Maharashtra State Table Tennis Association was invited as guest of honour along with MSTTA committee member Mr. Suhas Dandekar. They too were all praise for the manner in which this tournament was conducted.