Raman survives Jaiswal scare

PONDICHERRY, OCT 12: Top seed S Raman (PSCB) survived a scare before prevailing over Jignesh Jaiswal of Gujarat 21-14 13-21 21-11 15-21 2...

PONDICHERRY, OCT 12: Top seed S Raman (PSCB) survived a scare before prevailing over Jignesh Jaiswal of Gujarat 21-14 13-21 21-11 15-21 21-12 to enter the men’s pre-quarter final in the National Insurance All-India ranking table tennis championship tonight.

In another exciting five-setter Nachiket Chawate of Maharastra outplayed Bona Thomas John of Tamil Nadu 21-19 16-21 21-17 16-21 21-19 while Prithiviraj Bose of West Bengal defeated Anirban Nandi 14-21 21-17 21-17 21-18.

Two former National champions meeting in a first round of the women’s singles is not an in-thing. Ambika Radhika, out of the game for sometime, met her match at the hands of Mantu Ghosh. Radhika was not short of support but the lay-off made that difference.

Results (2nd round)

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Men singles: S Raman (PSCB) bt Jignesh Jaiswal (Guj) 21-14 13-21 21-11 15-21 21-12; Deepak Thukral (Pnj) bt Prasanjit Sarkar (Rly) 21-18 21-13 21-14; Prithviraj Bose (WB) bt Anirban Nandi (WB) 14-21 21-17 21-17 21-18; Nachiket Chawate (Mah) bt BonaThomas John (Rly) 21-19 16-21 21-17 16-21 21-19; Ranbir Das (WB) bt Soumyadeep Roy (PSCB) 22-20 16-21 21-19 14-21 21-11.

Junior boys: (PQF): Anirban Nandi (WB) bt Irupakshya Saha 21-14 21-12 21-14; Anal Kashyap (PSCB) bt Nilay Besak (WB) 21-16 21-14 21-12; Sourav Chakraborthy (WB) Rajat Kamal (TN) 21-11 21-18 21-13; Amit Das (WB) bt Sukanta Das (PSCB) 21-16 18-21 21-17 21-18; Jayantha Chandra (WB) bt V Abhinay (TN) 18-21 21-18 21-18 21-16; Tanmoy Dutta (WB) bt Arunav Ganguly (PSCB) 21-17 21-17 21-19.