AHMEDABAD: Hosts Gujarat and Maharashtra once again led the chart of qualifiers in Sub-Juniors in the National Ranking (West Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the
Veer Savarkar Municipal Corporation Stadium
in Rajkot on Monday. As many as seven players from Maharashta made the cut - Rajesh Patil Deepit,
Karan Kukreja
, Hrishikesh Malhtora, Shivam Das, Aryan Panse, Sahil Joshi and Manav Mehta going through. From Gujarat, it was Abhilash Raval, Pratham Madlani,
Ayaz Murad
, Vidit Desai, Deep Bhandari, Chitrax Bhatt and
Dhairya Parmar
who made it to Stage 2 of the qualifiers.
There were quite a few second round matches in the sub-junior boys which went the full distance. For instance, the match between Karan Kukreja of Maharashtra struggled to beat
Harshil Kothari
of Gujarat 11-8, 6-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-3, Gujarat's Ayaz Murad defeated PSBA's Khelendrajit 9-11, 15-13, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6. Manav Mehta, too, had to bring out his best in this round against Rahul Malik of Haryana to win 11-7, 11-5, 7-11, 9-11, 11-7.
In the first round earlier, Karantaka's Aakash Jagadish had to really play well the decider, which he won on extended points, to beat Darshil Jariwala of Guajrat. The Karnataka lad won 5-11, 11-7, 4-11, 11-9, 12-10. But another Karnataka boy Rathin
Suresh Kumar failed to survive against Vidit Desai of Guajrat who won 11-4, 11-7, 5-11, 10-12, 11-6.
In sub-junior girls, Charmi Patel from Guajrat beat Shiropa Routh of North Bengal 11-4, 10-12, 11-9, 9-11, 11-6 in a see-saw first round battle and the experienced
Manjunath Anargya
of Karnataka struggled before subduing her Maharashtra rival
Samruddi Kulkarni
11-7, 10-12, 11-8, 6-11, 11-6.
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