Facile win for PSCB

Holders Petroleum Sports Control Board PSCB opened their campaign with a resounding 3-0 win over Chandigarh while hosts Haryana also demolished Tripura 3-0 in the 64th sub-junior national and inter-state table tennis championship here today.

In the girls section, Haryana and Bengal trounced their respective rivals Goa and Pondichery by identical 3-0 margins. The opening day of the championship witnessed mostly one-sided matches with fancied teams chalking out easy victories over the opponents.

Results: Sub-junior boys: Group D: Tamil Nadu bt Bihar 3-0, Rajasthan bt Himachal 3-1. Group E: Maharastra 8216;A8217; bt Pondicherry 3-0, Manipur bt J-K 3-0. Group F: Delhi bt Jharkhand 3-0, MP bt Meghalaya 3-1. Group G: Gujarat bt Kerala 3-0, Punjab bt Maharastra B 3-1. Group B: Punjab bt Manipur 3-2. Group G: Maharastra B bt Himachal 3-0, Chattisgarh bt Uttaranchal 3-1. Group H: Karnataka bt Rajasthan 3-0, Chandigarh bt Jharkhand 3-0. Group A: Pondicherry bt Kerala 3-0. Group B: Orissa bt J-K 3-1. Group C: Andhra bt MP 3-1. Group D: Gujarat bt Tripura 3-0. Group F: Haryana bt Goa 3-0.