There is little question that the top-seeded Reserve Bank of India (RBI) girls’s desk tennis staff is the favorite regardless of PSPB being the defending champion.
RBI proved it in ample measure with an imposing 3-0 victory over Kerala in the pre-quarterfinals of the senior National inter-State desk tennis championships right here on Tuesday. RBI will tackle Haryana in the last-eight conflict. In reality, none of the seeded teams in women and men had any issues as they cruised into the quarterfinals.
For RBI, Ayhika Mukherjee, Sreeja Akula, and Diya Chitale demolished their opponents. First, Ayhika routed an up-and-coming Seraha Jabcob 11-3, 11-5, 11-4 earlier than the reigning National champion Sreeja overcame Pranati P Nair 10-12, 11-5, 11-6, 11-7. Diya Chitale up Renuka Aswani 11-6, 11-6, 11-3.
Tamil Nadu defeated Telangana 3-0 to succeed in the girls’s quarterfinals and arrange a gathering with West Bengal.
After being 2-0 up, with V. Kowshika and S. Yashini profitable their matches, N. Deepika gave her staff fairly a couple of jitters earlier than beating Harshita Thonda Lakshmi 13-11, 11-9, 11th of September, 11th of September, 12-10 in the third rubber.
The awarding of the prime seed standing to RBI raised a couple of eyebrows, at least initially. Table Tennis Federation of India, nevertheless, acknowledged that because it couldn’t maintain the all-Institutional championships after 2019 attributable to COVID-19, it has determined to provide you with a contemporary set of tips whereby the home rankings of the better of the three gamers might be taken into consideration to determine the seedings of the staff.
The outcomes (pre-quarterfinals):
Men: PSPB bt Uttarakhand 3-0; West Bengal bt Karnataka 3-1; Uttar Pradesh bt Gujarat 3-0; Delhi bt Punjab 3-0; Haryana bt TTFI 3-0; Telangana bt Manipur 3-0; Maharashtra bt Madhya Pradesh 3-0; RSPB bt Assam 3-0.
Women: RBI bt Kerala 3-0; Haryana bt Chandigarh 3-0; Delhi bt Karnataka 3-1; Maharashtra bt Assam 3-1; West Bengal bt Gujarat 3-0; Tamil Nadu bt Telangana 3-0; Madhya Pradesh bt TTFI 1 3-1; PSPB bt Andhra Pradesh 3-0.
