Tamil Nadu’s N. Deepika (dealing with) gained the third match towards Karnataka’s M.Anargya
| Photo Credit: Okay. Keerthivasan
The Tamil Nadu women’s group, final version’s bronze medallist, booked its place in the knock-out (spherical of 16) with a facile 3-0 victory over Karnataka of their third Group-VIII contest of the UTT-84th Senior National and inter-state table tennis championships right here on Monday. TN gained its two different matches towards Odisha (3-0), Daman and Diu (3-0).
V. Kowshika and S. Yashini gained their matches with 3-0 and 3-1 margins respectively. In the third match, N. Deepika got here again from being 0-2 right down to win the subsequent three (Sep 11, Sep 11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-9) towards M. Anargya and guarantee her group, ranked No.1 in the group, enter the pre-quarterfinals.
The Tamil Nadu males’s group staged a outstanding fightback to beat Assam 3-2 in a Group-VIII match. Down 1-2, Preyesh Suresh Raj, Tamil Nadu’s quantity No. 1 paddler, who had misplaced the first tie, held his nerve towards Sankab Baruah in the fourth rubber to make sure TN keep alive in the contest. In the fifth and deciding rubber, senior TN paddler Nitin Thiruvengadam closed the doorways on Assam with an 11-9, 8-11, 11-9, 15-13 win over Gohain Agniv Bhaskar.
Earlier, Assam produced an enormous upset with a 3-2 win over top-ranked Uttar Pradesh in a males’s Group-VIII tie.
The outcomes:
Men’s: Group I: PSPB bt Andhra Pradesh 3-0; Group II: Punjab bt Sikkim 3-0; RSPB bt Nagaland 3-0; Group III: TTFI 1 bt Ladakh 3-0; Delhi bt Kerala 3-0; Group IV: Haryana bt Meghalaya 3-0; Uttarakhand bt Chhattisgarh 3-1; Telangana bt Bihar 3-0; Karnataka bt J&Okay 3-1; Group VIII: TN bt Odisha 3-0; Assam bt UP 3-2. Round 2: UP bt Chandigarh 3-0.
Women’s:
Group-I: RBI bt TTFI 1 3-0, bt J&Okay 3-0; Group-II: PSPB bt UP 3-0, bt Punjab 3-0; Kerala bt UP 3-0, bt Punjab 3-1; Group-VIII: TN bt Odisha 3-0, bt Daman & Diu 3-0, bt Karnataka 3-0.
