Joshi,Shibe win in table tennis tourney

Nishant Joshi and Shounak Shibe registered easy wins against their respective opponents in the Pune District Ranking TT tournament organised by the Sharda Sports Center and held at their courts on Monday.

Nishant Joshi had no trouble in defeating opponent Advay Deshpande 3-1 in the opening round of the tournament. He beat him 13-11,11-9,8-11,11-5. Shounak Shibe went down in the very first game 4-11,but came back strongly to win the remaining games 11-5,11-9 and 11-6.

Results:
Cadet boys (I round)

Nishant Joshi beat Advay Deshpande13-11,11-9,8-11,11-5; (3-1)

Shounak Shibe beat Tejas Dhavade 4-11,11-5,11-9,11-6; (3-1)

Deepak Kataria beat Chirag Dalvi 14-12,14-12,7-11,11-7; (3-1)

Siddharth Raut beat Nihar Raut 13-11,1-11,11-4,11-8; (3-1)

Gaurav Lohpatre beat Dhruv Bhave 11-6,11-4,14-12; (3-0)

Atharv Bhat beat Parth Phanse 11-5,11-2,11-8; (3-0) Rohan Khivsara beat Soham Shinde 11-9,11-0,11-8; (3-0).