Table Tennis Representational (IANS)
Shankab Barua did the star flip for Assam, profitable each his singles earlier than Agniv Bhaskar Gohain made it 3-2 for Assam over UP along with his win over Divyansh Srivastava
Unseeded Assam upset the applecart of Uttar Pradesh with a 3-2 win in a first-round match of Group H on the 84th Inter-State National Table Tennis Championships on Monday.
The eight-seeded UP workforce, a quarterfinalist in the final version in Meghalaya, did not reside as much as expectations.
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UP had three skilled gamers in their ranks, led by Abhishek Yadav, Divyansh Srivastava and Sarth Mishra, who may have carried out justice to their choice and made a shiny starting to the marketing campaign.
However, Shankab Barua did the star flip for Assam, profitable each his singles, particularly after trailing 1-2 in opposition to Divyansh and single-handedly plotting the downfall of UP.
It was a optimistic starting for Abhishek Yadav when he accounted for Agniv Bhaskar Gohain 11-8, 11-6, 11-8 in lower than 25 minutes. But Shankab Barua held his nerves after dropping the third recreation (11-13) to win the subsequent two and put Assam 2-0 up.
Promising teenager Priyanuj Bhattacharyya ought to have wrapped it up when he led 2-1 in the fourth recreation. But he misplaced two tie factors whereas Sarth Mishra transformed his third recreation level to scale back the margin.
With UP main 2-1, no person would have given a grain of an opportunity to Assam. But, surprisingly, Shankab turned the tables on the skilled Abhishek because the UP left-hander discovered himself on the receiving finish when the Assam lad beat him 12-10, 11-6, 11-9 to revive parity and take the problem to the decider.
Agniv performed sensibly and didn’t fall into the entice of Divyansh, who has grown in stature. But the Assam paddler, making most of some adverse factors, beat Divyans 11-9, 7-11, 11-9, 11-9 in what have been shut calls in all three video games he gained.
UP can nonetheless qualify from the group because the second workforce.
But different seeded groups went by means of the motions in their group matches, nearly making certain their pre-quarterfinal berths.
However, a transparent image of the second qualifier from every group will emerge after the third/fourth spherical matches on Tuesday.
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