Railway women win Fed Cup title

It was not not the brilliance and overall dominance of the Chennai team that gifted them the title but the erratic smashes of the KSEB players combined with luck helped it to annex the title.

The match between the archrivals did not rise to the standard of a final.

The teams scored points through errors than their skills. Except the captains of both sides, Salomi Ramu and Aju Jacob, all other players committed errors. K Geetha Raju, M Sunitha (setter) and Mini Elizabeth fetched points for Railways while PR Sindhu and Gisha George excelled for the losers.

Railways began the day in whirlwind fashion and earned a two-point lead and maintained it till they won the set. The KSEB players failed to coordinate and even wasted simple smashes enabling Railway team finish the set in 17 minutes (25-18). However, the KSEB women snatched the second set with the same score and in the same time. But virtually it was the Railways’ error, which ultimately helped KSEB to win the set. Railways faults fetched KSEB ten points (25-18).

The third and fourth sets were rather easily won by the Railways at 25-18 and 25-15.

In both the third and fourth sets Railways maintained a healthy lead, at 12-6 and 15-7 respectively, which was a task for the electricity women to level. The Railways won the sets in 70 minutes scoring 25-18 and 25-15 respectively.