Shillong Apr 25 PTI Star paddler A Sharath Kamal secured his 10th national title with a thrilling 4-3 win over G Sathiyan in the mens singles summit clash at the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships here on Monday The 39-year-old dropped his racquet and ran around the arena to celebrate his triumph after Sathiyans return went out giving him the last point for a 7-11 12-10 9-11 7-11 12-10 11-9 11-6 win Tenth is always special and I will cherish this moment as I did with my first title said Sharath Asked if the milestone can be surmounted Sharath said Records are meant to be broken but might take some time as happened with me when I surpassed Kamlesh Mehtas eight-time national record In the womens singles final Sreeja Akula wore down Mouma Das 4-1 to win her maiden national crown becoming the first woman from Telangana to achieve the feat Sreeja who won her first national ranking title in 2019 during the North Zone championships at Sonipat and followed it up with another crown at Thane has come a long way Last year Sreeja lost out on the national title to eventual winner Manika Batra at Panchkula A dream come true occasion for me and the week-long camp at Chennai with Sharath Manav Thakkar and others has yielded the desired results said Sreeja the WTT Doha doubles bronze medal winner Earlier in the mens singles semifinals second seed Sathiyan took less than 25 minutes to beat left-handed Sanil Shetty 4-0 in a one-sided encounter But it was not all that easy for top-seed Sharath Kamal against another left-hander Manush Shah in an earlier match The Gujarat paddler opened well and troubled Sharath a lot Manush kept his chances alive in the match after he levelled the score 2-2 But then Sharath struggling in the fifth won on the seventh game point Leading 3-2 Sharath found the going good and wrapped up the match soon after Sreeja on the other hand had to toil against teammate Ayhika Mukherjee in the first womens singles semifinals In the evenly poised match the Hyderabad woman won the sixth game when Ayhika deuced Mouma had entered the final with a 4-1 verdict against PSPBs Reeth Risyha Haryana and RSPB benefit Haryana RBI and the Railways shared the gold medals on offer in doubles events In the all-Haryana mens doubles final Sourav Saha and Wesely Do Rosario defeated teammates Soumyajit Ghosh and Jubin Kumar 3-2 In the womens doubles Sreeja and Ayhika combined well to outsmart RSPBs Takeme Sarkar and Prapti Sen to win the title 3-2 and in the mixed event final Akash Pal and Prati Sen beat Haryanas Soumyajit Ghosh and Suhana Saini 3-1 Results Mens Singles Final A Sharath Kamal PSPB bt G Sathiyan PSPB 7-11 12-10 9-11 7-11 12-10 11-9 11-6 Semifinals Sharath Kamal PSPB bt Manush Shah Guj 9-11 11-5 12-10 7-11 18-16 11-8 G Sathiyan PSPB bt Sanil Shetty PSPB 11-6 11-4 11-7 11-5Womens Singles Final Sreeja Akula RBI bt Mouma Das PSPB 11-8 11-13 12-10 11-8 11-6 Semifinals Akula Sreeja RBI Ayhika Mukherjee RBI 12-10 8-11 11-8 11-9 3-11 12-10 Mouma Das PSPB bt Reeth Rishya PSPB 11-9 11-7 5-11 11-5 12-10Mens Doubles Final Sourav SahaWesley Do Rosaria Har bt Soumyajit GhoshJubin Kumar Har 11-5 4-11 11-9 7-11 11-8Womens Doubles Final Sreeja AkulaAyhika Mukherjee RBI bt Takeme SarkarPrapti Sen RSPB 3-11 11-9 11-5 12-10Mixed Doubles Final Akash PalPrapti Sen RSPB bt Soumyajit GhoshSuhana Saini Har 9-11 11-7 11-9 11-7 PTI ATK PDS PDS
Shillong Apr 21 PTI The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board PSPB teams both men and women asserted their supremacy yet again lifting the trophies in the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships here on Thursday For PSPB men it was their 25th title But their womens team regained the title -- winning it for the 16th time -- after missing at Hyderabad Both PSPB men and women defeated Maharashtra 3-0 in the finals Yet it was not easy for the PSPB men particularly after captain A Sharath preferred to bench himself to give a chance to Manav Thakkar in the final Maharashtras Deepit R Patil Siddhesh Pandey and young Jass Modi had the firepower to stretch their opponents Deepit played brilliantly in the first game taking two games off Sathiyan The latters experience saved the day as he staved off the threat to put PSPB 1-0 up Harmeet also dropped a game before shutting out an in-form Siddhesh Pandey But Jash Modi got his act together to put Manav under pressure straight away Manav lost the opener on extended points before hitting a nice rhythm Still when the teenager stretched him again in the fourth it became a little dicey for Manavs reputation Results Team Men Final PSPB bt Maharashtra A 3-0 G Sathiyan bt Deepit R Patil 11-0 10-12 9-11 11-5 11-8 Harmeet Desai bt Siddhesh Pande 11-3 11-3 2-11 11-7 Manav Thakkar bt Jash Modi 10-12 11-1 11-4 12-10 Women Finals PSPB bt Maharashtra A 3-0 Archana Kamath bt Diya Chitale 11-2 11-7 11-5 Manika Batra bt Swastika Ghosh 11-4 11-7 15-13 Reeth Rishya bt Anannya Basak 11-6 5-11 11-8 11-7 PTI BS PDS PDS
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): India's women's doubles pair in table tennis, Archana Girish Kamath and Manika Batra entered the Top 10 of WD category in the updated rankings posted by the International Table Tennis Federation.
Houston [USA], November 28 (ANI): The mixed doubles pair of Manika Batra and G Sathiyan suffered a defeat in the quarterfinals of the ongoing World Table Tennis Championships.
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): India paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran stated that he has improved a lot since his Tokyo Olympics defeat and would continue this form for World Championship.
Lausanne [Switzerland], August 24 (ANI): Star Indian paddler duo of Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra are at world number 20 (as a pair) in the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) mixed doubles rankings.
New Delhi [India], August 20 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Thakur praised the Indian paddler duo of Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran after they bagged the mixed doubles title at the WTT Contender Budapest table tennis event on Friday.
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