PSCB, Railways, Bengal, Tamil Nadu qualify for semis

In the women’s section, PSCB will play Tamil Nadu while Bengal will take on Railways in the two semifinals. PSCB, Bengal, Rajasthan and Maharahstra-B had topped their respective groups in the men’s category while the two teams occupying the second and third spots in each group had to play pre-quarter-finals to fill up the four other quarter-final slots.

The four teams to have topped the groups in the women’s section were PSCB, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Railways. In the men’s quarter-final ties, PSCB outplayed Uttar Pradesh 3-0 while Bengal beat Delhi 3-1.

In two other matches, Railways fought hard to overcome Rajasthan 3-2 and Tamil Nadu outclassed Maharashtra-B 3-0. PSCB with a daunting line-up, outplayed Maharashtra-a 3-1in the women’s section while Tamil Nadu defeated Maharashtra-B 3-2.

Results (men’s):

QF: PSCB beat UP 3-0 (S Raman bt Rahul Prakash 21-6, 21-16,Subhajit Saha bt K D Sarkar 21-13, 21-10, Arjun Dutta bt Z Singh 21-12, 21-16); Bengal beat Delhi 3-1 (Anirban Nandi bt Harsh Chopra21-15, 21-18, Saurav Chakraborty lost to H P Kala 10-21, 19-21, Amit Das bt Rajiv Ghai 21-14, 18-21, 21-17, Anirban Nandi bt H P Kala 21-17, 21-12); Tamil Nadu beat Maharashtra-B 3-0 (R Rajesh bt Swapnil Namjoshi 21-14, 21-8, A Sharath Kamal bt Nishant Kulkarni 23-21, 21-15, K S Chakraborty bt Upendra Muley 21-14, 21-14); Railways beat Rajasthan 3-2 (Sivaji Dutta bt Anal Kashyap21-16, 17-21, 21-17, Ranabir Das lost to Soumyadeep Roy 21-9, 15-21, 15-21, B S Thakur lost to Prasenjit Dutta 19-21, 15-21, Sivaji Dutta bt Soumyadeep Roy 22-20, 21-17, Ranabir Das bt Anal Kashyap 21-10, 22-20.