Amalraj champion again, Manika wears maiden crown
Hyderabad, January 10: Anthony Amalraj emerged the men’s singles winner for the second but his opponent and a second-time finalist, G. Sathiyan, was not as lucky and he went down 2-3 in the final of the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Kotla Vijay Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here today.
Just 40 minutes before that, PSPB’s Manika Batra created history winning her maiden women’s title, beating
Pressure pulls national champ Mouma down, Ankita too bows out
Hyderabad, January 9: The pressure of selection for the Olympic qualifiers was writ large on the faces of even the most experienced as second-seeded Mouma Das and No. 5 Ankita Das crashed out in the women’s singles quarterfinals to join those fell by the wayside in earlier rounds of the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Kotla Vijay Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here today.
Top-seeded Manika Batra beat West
Top men seeds sprout, but women wither early
Hyderabad, January 9: Fifth seed G. Sathiyan had to bright out his best against Haryana’s Sarthak Gandhi to enter the men’s singles quarterfinals in the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Kotla Vijay Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here today.
The PSPB paddler won 4-2 but sixth and seven-seeded Devesh Karia of Gujarat and Rajasthan’s Sudhanshu Grover, respectively, made their exit in the pre-quart
Chartbuster Sharath in hallow company
Hyderabad, January 8: Achanta Sharath Kamal has been provided the top-seed men’s singles slot for the first time in two years since 2013. Just a year before, at the Raipur nationals, he was seeded No. 6 after he chose to skip national ranking tournaments the previous year. But he was restored to his position at Patna and in the next edition at Pudhucherry Sharath had given a skip to the nationals last year.<
PSPB sweep titles; silver lining for Jubin's Haryana and West Bengal
Hyderabad, January 7: Winning is a habit and, thanks to the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board’s firepower, it has got stuck with their men since their first win at Jammu in 1997. PSPB’s men yet again lifted the Barna Ballack Cup, for the 18th occasion beating Haryana 3-1 in the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Kotla Vijay Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium here today.
PSPB women did an encore be