Defending champion Sreeja Akula of RBI claimed a second successive girls’s singles crown after beating Sutirtha Mukherjee of West Bengal 4-2 within the 84th UTT Inter-State Senior National Table Tennis Championships right here on Monday.
G. Sathiyan too claimed his second males’s singles nationwide title, defeating Harmeet Desai in straight video games on the Gymnasium Hall of Jammu University. He received the primary crown in 2021, beating previous foe Sharath Kamal within the Panchkula Nationals.
Both Sreeja and Sathiyan had been richer by Rs. 2.75 lakh every following their victories.
Sreeja was scratchy within the ultimate. Whenever in hassle, she discovered a solution to extricate herself from depth to do the surprising. In different phrases, Sutirtha let her opponent off the hook as she couldn’t profit from one of the best conditions within the ultimate.
Sutirtha was in tremendous kind and had her forehand going properly, executing some unbelievable cross-court photographs, however Sreeja by no means relented from her attacking posture nor went right into a shell.
Though Sutirtha received the primary sport, she ought to have additionally taken not less than two of the following three video games as she held two sport factors in every. But Sreeja’s boldness and passive play helped her to finally report a Sep 11, 14-12, 11-7, 13-11, 6-11, 12-10 win over the West Bengal participant, a former nationwide champion.
Sathiyan, alternatively, was in his zone within the ultimate, exemplifying it with a fast-paced sport in opposition to Harmeet.
The former’s superiority on the day was seen as he stroked his manner with thundering forehands. His backhand, too, cooperated with him with out brooking any challenges from Harmeet.
Except for the primary sport that turned too shut for his consolation, Sathiyan dominated the present and inched his manner up with the win in each sport.
So pissed off was Harmeet that he misplaced steam and the need to push Sathiyan additional, dropping the fourth sport tamely. In the tip, the scoreline learn 11-9, 11-7, 11-8, 11-5 in favour of Sathiyan.
In males’s doubles, Jeet Chandra and Ankur Bhattacharjee of West Bengal defeated Mohammed Ali and Vansh Singhal of Telangana in straight video games to raise the trophy.
Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale mixed properly to beat the pair from Maharashtra, Swastika Ghosh and Shruti Amrute, 3-1 for the gold medal within the girls’s doubles ultimate.
In the blended doubles ultimate, Manav Thakkar and Archana Kamath defeated Ankur Bhattacharjee and Moumita Datta from West Bengal 3-0.
In the sooner spherical, the West Bengal pair had accounted for the top-seeded Sathiyan and Manika Batra 3-0.
Results:
Men’s singles:
Final: G. Sathiyan (PPB) bt Harmeet Desai (PSPB) 11-9, 11-7, 11-8, 11-5.
Semi-finals: G. Sathiyan bt Manav Thakkar (PSPB) 13-11, 11-7, Sep 11, 11-1, Sep 11, 11-5; Harmeet Desaia bt Manush Shah (RBI) 11-6, 3-11, 5-11, 11-8, 11-5, Sep 11, 11-6.
Men’s doubles:
Final: Jeet Chandra/Ankur Bhattacharjee (WB) bt Mohammed Ali/Vansh Singhal (Telg) 11-6, 11-7, 11-6.
Semi-finals: Jeet Chandra/Ankur Bhattacharjee bt Akash Pal/Ravindra Kotiyan (RSPB) Sep 11, 11-4, 11-4, 11-7; Mohammed Ali/Vansh Singhal bt Aniket Choudhury/Soumyadeep Sarkar (WB) 11-7, 11-7, 8-11, 11-2.
Women’s singles:
Final: Sreeja Akula (RBI) bt Sutirtha Mukherjee (WB) Sep 11, 14-12, 11-7, 13-11, 6-11, 12-10.
Semi-finals: Sutirtha Mukherjee bt Ayhika Mukherjee (RBI) 12-10, 11-7, 11-5, 12-10; Sreeja Akula bt Archana Kamath (PSPB) 11-9, 11-3, 11-6, Sep 11, 5-11, 11-7.
Women’s doubles:
Final: Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale (RBI) bt Swastika Ghosh/Shruti Amrute (Mah) 11-7, 11-7, 8-11, 14-12.
Semi-finals: Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale bt Prapti Sen/Poymantee Baisya (WB) 11-6, 11-5, 2-11, 11-5; Swastika Ghosh/Shruti Amrute bt Radhapriya Goel/Nithyashree Mani (AAI) 11-4, 11-2, 3-11, 15-13.
Mixed doubles:
Final: Manav Thakkar/Archana Kamath (PSPB) bt Ankur Bhattacharjee/Moumita Datta (WB) 11-5, 14-12, 11-3.
Semi-finals: Ankur Bhattacahrjee/Moumita Datta bt G. Sathiyan/Manika Batra (PSPB) 11-6, 11-0, 11-0; Manav Thakkar/Archana Kamath bt Manush Shah/Sreja Akula (RBI) 11-9, 12-10, 10-12, 11-5.
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