Indians finish with 4 gold medals on last day

Indore, September 11: Manav Thakkar, Varuni Jaiswal and Ishhita Gupta helped India wrest the initiative and win three singles gold medals, apart from the Junior Boys doubles gold, to lift the sagging morale of the hosts in ITTF 2016 India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships at the Abhay Prashal which concluded here today.

India won four gold medals to Taipei’s five, including four in team events, to be second in the med

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Gritty Indians keep gold hopes alive

Indore, September 10: Top-seeded Anirban Ghosh defeated compatriot Siddhesh Pande 4-3 to enter the Junior Boys singles semifinal of the ITTF 2016 India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships at the Abhay Prashal here today.

Third-seeded Manav Thakkar followed him suit with a 4-1 rout of Taipei’s Huang Yan-Chang but Jeet Chandra, despite a valiant effort, bowed out in the quarterfinal to another Taipei boy Tai Ming-Wei 3-4

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After team gold sweep, Taipei gunning for singles booty

Indore, September 9: Of the four from Chinese Taipei, all but one topped their group to enter the quarterfinals of the Cadet Girls singles event in ITTF 2016 India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships at the Abhay Prashal here today. Their fourth girl Huang Yu-Jie did, however, qualify only to finish second in group 1 behind India’s Ishita Gupta.

This would mean, once again, the Indians could be at the receiving end from

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Golden sweep by Taipei teams

Indore, September 8:  Chinese Taipei made a clean sweep of team gold medals dominating the show and making light of all Indian squads in the ITTF 2016 India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships at the Abhay Prashal here today.

Except for Junior Girls, where they won both the gold and silver medals, India managed to win the other three team silver medals in Junior Boys, Cadet Boys and Cadet Girls categories. Fortunately fo

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India, Taipei Boys teams qualify for Stage 2

Indore, September 7: The Junior Boys team of India A posted two wins in Group 3 against Iran and India D to enter Stage 2 of the ITTF 2016 India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships at the Abhay Prashal here today.

The top-seeded team beat Iran 3-0 and then accounted for India D 3-2 in a tough battle to emerge on top of the group. The other team from the group to qualify could be either Iran or India D, who have a win each aga

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