TT: Bapat,Deshpande win titles

Devavrat Bapat,Sayali Deshpande,Chinmay Datar,Aslesha Bodas and Rohit Choudhary bagged titles in their respective categories of the Le Meridien Trophy Table Tennis Tournamentorganised by Deccan Gymkhana at their table tennis hall on Monday.

Bapat defeated Avinash Joshi in four sets 5-11,11-9,11-6,11-8 to win the veterans’ championship. Top seed Sayali Deshpande defeated second seed Tanvi Lapalikar in five long sets 10-12,12-10,11-9,11-7,11-6 to win the Youth girls singles final. The youth boys finals saw Chinmay Datar beat varun Shastri 11-3,11-7,11-8,12-10.

In the women’s singles final,top seed Aslesha Bodas defeated Sayali Deshpande 11-8,11-7,11-8,11-4. Rohit Choudhary bagged the men’s singles final after defeating Atul Bapat 11-5,11-7,11-5,11-7.

Nitin Jadhav,manager-human resources of Le Meridien was the chief guest. The prizes were given by Namdeo shelar,former national level wrestler,Smita Bodas (joint secretary,Table Tennis Federation of India) was present.

The best player of the tournament award was shared by Niharika Jathar and Varun Shastri.