CHENNAI, Jan 9: Champions and star-spangled Petroleum Sports Control Board (PSCB) and Railways annexed the men’s and women’s team championship titles in the Indian Oil-Servo 60th Senior National table tennis championship here this evening.
While PSCB men drubbed Bengal 3-0 and retained the title for the fifth year in a row and seventh overall, Indian Railways snuffed out a belated challenge from holders Bengal before dethroning them by an identical margin to regain the title after a gap of one year.
RESULTS
Men’s final: Punjab State Electricity Board bt Bengal 3-0 (Chetan Baboor bt Ranabir Das 21-14, 21-12; S Raman bt Subhajit Saha 21-11, 21-12; Arjun Datta bt Subhas Chowdhury 21-19, 21-17).
For positions three and four: Railways bt Tamil Nadu 3-1 (Nupur Santra bt B Rajesh 21-16, 21-19; BS Thakur lost to Srivats Chakravarthy 18-21, 19-21; Shibaji Dutta bt Deepak Kumar 14-21, 21-12, 21-18; BS Thakur bt R Rajesh 17-21, 21-17, 21-13).
For positions 5 and 6: Punjab bt Uttar Pradesh3-0 (Vaneet Chopra bt Parag Agarwal 21-19, 21-10; Vikas Mahajan bt Rahul Prakash 21-13, 21-11; Vikas Sharma bt Zabarjeet Singh 22-20, 17-21, 21-14).
For positions 7 and 8: Gujarat bt Delhi 3-2 (Alok Jain lost to Harsh Chopra 19-21, 21-19, 13-21; Chirag Channa bt Sandeep Sahrma 21-13, 19-21, 21-15; Jignesh Jaiswal bt Gangandeep Singh 25-23, 21-18; Chirag Channa lost to Harsh Chopra 13-21, 14-21; Alok Jain bt Sandeep Sharma 19-21, 21-12, 21-18).
For positions 9-12: Karnataka bt Maharashtra A 3-1 (Bona Thomas John lost to B Gandeep 15-21, 18-21; CR Anand bt Nachiket C 24-22, 12-21, 21-13; Ravi Kumar bt Kunal Solanki 21-17, 21-13; Bona Thomas John bt Nahiket c 22-20, 9-21, 21-16). Assam bt Maharashtra B 3-2 (Mukul Boro bt R Chowdhry 21-14, 9-21, 21-17; Anupam Kanwar bt S Mehra 23-21, 21-9; Soneswar Deka lost to U Mulay 18-21, 19-21; Anupam Kanwar lost to R Chowdhary 16-21, 19-21; Mukul Boro bt S Mehra 21-10, 15-21, 21-14).
For positions 13-16: Kerala bt Rajasthan 3-1 (R Rajesh btLokendra Singh 23-21, 21-9; V Srinivasan bt Abhay Gupta 22-20, 21-5; MH Sreekumar lost to Amit Thanvi 10-21, 22-20, 17-21; R Rajesh bt Abhay Gupta 21-4, 21-12). Andhra Pradesh bt Chandigarh 3-2 (D Ajay Kumar bt Anoop KC 22-20, 17-21, 21-15; P Nagendra Reddy bt Amod Dixit 21-10, 21-12; Deepesh Singh lost to Tarun Akku 13-21, 22-20, 14-21; D Ajay Kumar lost to Amod Dixit 12-21, 21-11, 19-21; P Nagendra Reddy bt Anoop KC 21-14, 21-10).
WOMEN
Team Events (final): Railways bt Bengal 3-0 (Anindita Chakraborty bt Mouma Das 22-20, 19-21, 21-18; Montu Ghosh bt Poulomi Ghatak 10-21, 22-20, 21-12; Kasturi Chakraborty bt Sushmita Roy 21-12, 17-21, 22-20).
For position 3 and 4: PSCB bt Tamil Nadu 3-0 (B Bhuvaneswari bt NR Indu 21-16, 21-16; MS Mythili bt N Arul Selvi 21-17, 12-21, 21-11; Kanchan Basak bt T Pradeepa 23-21, 12-21, 21-15).
For position 5 and 6: Maharashtra A bt Delhi 3-1 (Shalmali Mhatre lost to Ekta Bhambri 12-21, 12-21; Mallika Parekh bt Nandini Kulkarni 21-18, 21-7; ChandniAshar bt Ishani Barua 21-14, 21-16; Mallika Parekh bt Ekta Bhambri 21-15, 21-7).
For positions 7 and 8: Assam bt Madhya Pradesh 3-1 (M Bordoloi lost to Tejaswini Joshi 21-15, 23-25, 16-21; J Borthakur bt Varsha Tare 21-12, 18-21, 21-4; P Borah bt Gargi Kekre 21-12, 21-18; M Bordoloi bt Varsha Tare 23-21, 21-18).
For position 9 and 10: Maharashtra B bt Karnataka 3-2 (Sonia Deshpande lost to Archana Viswanath 17-21, 13-21; Mamta Prabhu bt Keerthi Kesavan 21-18, 17-21, 21-15; Leena Medheker lost to Anjana Rao 7-21, 21-17, 9-21; Mamta Prabhu bt Archana Viswanath 21-13, 12-21, 22-20; Sonia Deshpande bt Keerthi Kesavan 20-22, 21-18, 23-21).
For position 11 and 12: Uttar Pradesh bt Chandigarh 3-1 (Parvathi Bankhwal lost to Barkha KC 16-21, 19-21; Mum Mun Mukherjee bt Shika Sharma 21-11, 21-18; Ranjeet Kaur bt Shallu Kappor 21-16, 21-18; Parvathi Bankhwal bt Shika Sharma 21-10, 21-10).
For position 13 and 14: Punjab bt Andhra Pradesh 3-0 (Meenu Dhawan bt Prashanti 23-21, 21-19;Shikha Ghai bt Anupa Ruth 21-17, 21-16; Rajni Gupa bt Thanuja 21-17, 19-21, 21-16).
For positions 15 and 16: Kerala bt Rajasthan 3-2 (MS Bindu bt Amita Modi 21-7, 21-11; S Athira lost to Rani Chandrima 19-21, 7-21; A Leena bt Puja Rawat 21-12, 21-12; MS Bindu lost to Rani Chandrima 11-21, 17-21; S Athira bt Amita Modi 21-10, 21-11).