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Last Updated: April 20, 2023, 19:58 IST
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Achanta Sharath Kamal (Twitter and PTI)
Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran face off in the boys’s singles last on the PSPB Inter Unit Table Tennis Tournament
India’s high two paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran will face one another in the boys’s singles summit conflict of the PSPB Inter Unit Table Tennis Tournament.
Veteran Sharath (IOCL) rallied from a recreation down to win his semifinal match in opposition to gifted teen Ankur Bhattachajee 6-11 11-9 11-9 11-7 11-8 in the perfect of seven video games format being adopted.
In the opposite semifinal, reigning nationwide champion Sathiyan (ONGC) discovered his kind to beat teammate Saurabh Saha comfortably 4-0 (11-8, 11-8, 11-6, 11-8).
The girls’s semifinals noticed youth taking over expertise.
Talented junior Yashaswani Ghorpade (OIL) beat Divya Deshpande (ONGC) 4-2 (11-4, 11-8, 3-11, 3-11, 11-6, 11-9) in an intense encounter.
In the opposite semifinal, T Reeth Rishya (IOCL) took on teammate and junior Jennifer Verghees in a match which went the total distance to win 4-3.
It was a see-saw battle with Jennifer profitable the primary recreation comfortably 11-5. She then received the second recreation as effectively. Reeth took the third in an in depth recreation however misplaced the subsequent one and it regarded like Jennifer would win.
Reeth drew on her expertise and with large grit received the final three video games and the match 4-3 (5-11, 10-12, 11-9, 6-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-4).
In the veterans’ last, Pankaj Gupta (ONGC) will tackle LV Thakre in the ultimate after they each received their semifinal matches comfortably by equivalent margins of 3-1.
Pankaj beat Soneshwar Deka (OIL) 11-2, 13-11, 11-13, 11-4 in the primary semifinal and LV Thakre defeated Jayanta Dey (IOCL) 5-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-5 in the opposite last-four match.
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