
January 12: Tamil Nadu8217;s T Pradeepa caused an upset ousting fifth seeded Montu Ghosh Railways in a pre-quarterfinal match of the women8217;s individual open event of the 60th Senior National table tennis championship this morning.
Unseeded Pradeepa went into the lead straight away taking the first game while ghosh, a semi-finalist in the jammu nationals last year, came back to clinch the second. Despite surrendering meekly in the fourth, Pradeepa kept her nerves and took the decider without much difficulty.
She will now meet junior national champion and fourth seeded Poulumi Ghatak in the quarter-finals. Besides the two, defending champion Kasturi Chakraborty Rly, top seeded NR Indu TN and second seeded Mouma Das too had an easy time.
Third seeded Anindita Chakraborty Rly overcame a stiff challenge from V Bhuvaneshwari PSCB before winning 20-22, 19-21, 21-14, 24-22, 21-19.
In the men8217;s section, which saw four seeded players crashing out in the second round yesterday, the first eight seeds ledby defending champion Chetan Baboor moved into the quarter-finals without much ado.
G Deepak Kumar of Tamil Nadu, who scalped former national champion and 11th seeded Sriram PSCB, was halted by sixth seeded Deepak Thukral Pun.