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This is an archive article published on July 22, 1998

Seeds have it easy

MUMBAI, July 21: Most of the seeded players in the junior boys singles, girls singles and women singles made their way up without breakin...

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MUMBAI, July 21: Most of the seeded players in the junior boys singles, girls singles and women singles made their way up without breaking sweat in Matunga Gymkhana Major State Ranking Table Tennis tournament here today.

The top four seeds in the junior boys section, Aditya Mahagaonkar of Mumbai, Swapnil Namjoshi of Thane, Mitish Puranik and Eric Fernandes (both from Mumbai) entered the fifth round with straight-games wins. Top seed in the women’s and junior girls section, Mallika Parekh of Mumbai led the seeded players’ march into the third round in both events.

She first crushed unseeded Anushri Kulkarni of Thane 21-8, 21-5 and then drubbed unseeded Swapna Sridhar of Thane 21-10-21-3 in the women’s singles second round.

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Bespectacled Aditya mesmerised unseeded Rajesh Kadam 21-17, 21-15 while Swapnil Namjoshi sidelined another unseeded player Omkar Mhaskar of Thane 21-11, 21-19 to move into the fifth round. Eric Fernandes too had an easy time beating unseeded Amol Ganapate of Thane 21-16, 21-13 whileMitesh got the better of unseeded Anand Parihar (Mumbai) 21-12, 21-17.

RESULTS

Boys singles (4th round): Aditya Mahagaonkar bt Rajesh Kadam 21-17, 21-15; Mitesh Puranik bt Anand Parihar 21-12, 21-17; Swapnil Namjoshi bt Omkar Mhaskar 21-11, 21-19; Karan Kapur bt Sayed Amir 21-11, 21-14; Alok Phadnis bt Mayur Dussija 21-10, 21-12; Eric Fernandes bt Amol Ganapate 21-16, 21-13; Ankur Mahajan bt Anand Dandawate 21-5, 21-3; Harmeet Chawla bt Sushant Kulkarni 22-20, 21-14; Ojas More bt Anand Nagarkatti 21-17, 21-17; Amol Pandit bt Jayant Walwatkar 21-17, 17-21, 21-12; Dhruv Lakhane bt Gunjan Wagle 21-13, 21-14; Shashank Juvekar bt Kunal Dere 21-11, 21-7; Mihir Walawalkar 21-16, 17-21, 21-19; Vasjit Mestha bt Akshay Nadkarni 21-16, 21-18; Aditya Tawde bt Manas Mutha 21-19, 14-21, 21-13; Ashutosh Dhaganvar bt Manas Karmarkar 21-17, 16-21, 21-10.

Women’s singles (2nd round): Mallika Parekh bt Swapna Sridhar 21-10, 21-3; Manasi Bhagwat bt Shivali Nayak 21-15, 21-17; Leena Medhekar bt Rikita Dalal 21-16,21-18; Deepali Zaveri bt Radhika Shah 21-11, 21-10; Rujuta Rege bt Reshma Bhosale 21-13, 21-19; Chandani Ashar bt Aniya Chitale 21-12, 21-15; Varada Bal bt Mangala Saraf 22-20, 19-21, 21-18; Mamata Prabhu bt Aashni Shah 21-4, 21-12; Shalmali Mhatre bt Arti Prabhune 21-11, 21-12; Janhavi Deshpande bt Simone Patel 21-6, 21-13.

Junior girls singles (2nd round): Mallika Parekh bt Anushri Kulkarni 21-8, 21-5; Manasi Bhagwat bt Rujuta Rege 11-21, 21-17, 21-17; Varda Bal bt Sukhade Jatka 21-15, 21-23, 21-7; Madhurika Patkar bt Trupti Aire 21-13, 21-17.

Sriram, Mallika top-seeded

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S Sriram and Mallika Parekh have been given the pride of place in the men’s and women’s singles in the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament from July 22.

The seedings (Men): 1 S Sriram, 2 Nachiket Chawathe, 3 Gandeep Bhavandkar, 4 Kunal Solanki, 5 Rohit Choudhary, 6 Mahendra Chiplunkar, 7 Nilesh Pandirkar, 8 Nishant Kulkarni, 9 Sanjay Nemlekar, 10 Upendra Muley. Boys: 1 Aditya Mahagaokar, 2 SwapnilNamjoshi, 3 Mitesh Puranik, 4 Eric Fernandes, 5 Shashank Juvekar, 6 Karan Kapoor, 7 Alok Phadnis, 8 Ankur Mahajan. Sub-juniors: 1 Kalpesh Mohite, 2 Ankur Mahajan, 3 Alok Phadnis, 4 Omkar Tanksale, 5 Anand Nagarkatti, 6 Rohan Waghmare, 7 Sushant Kulkarni, 8 Aditya Tawade. Cadets: 1 Shishir Juvekar, 2 Sanket Utagi, 3 Amod Tilak, 4 Alok Shah, 5 Adwait Vaidya, 6 Rohan Chinchwadkar, 7 Chinmay Bal, 8 Vivian Parekh.

Women: 1 Mallika Parekh, 2 Janhavi Deshpande, 3 Radhika Ghatnekar, 4 Shruti Kanade, 5 Shalmali Mhatre, 6 Mamta Prabhu, 7 Leena Medhekar, 8 Shraddha Shastri. Girls: 1 Mallika Parekh, 2 Shalmali Inamdar, 3 Janhavi Deshpande, 4 Mamata Prabhu, 5 Neha Sidhaye, 6 Deepali Zaveri, 7 A Joshi, 8 Aditi Jaganathan. Sub-junior: 1 Manasi Bhagwat, 2 Aditi Jaganathan, 3 Ashwini Mokashi, 4 Madhurika Patkar. Cadets: 1 Madhurika Patkar, 2 Shweta Joshi, 3 Jhuili Inamdar, 4 Bela Mehta.

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