Seeds take a beating

MUMBAI, September 2: Three seeded players crashed out in the cadet boys quarter-final of the Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tourn...

MUMBAI, September 2: Three seeded players crashed out in the cadet boys quarter-final of the Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at the Mavli Mandal Hall today.

Fourth seed Aniket Koparekar of Pune failed to overcome NGP’s Rohit Borvankar. After losing the first game 16-21, Koparekar stretched his unseeded opponent to the limits but went down 27-29 in a marathon second game.

Adwait Vaidya of Pune and Ashish Joshi (Thane) were the other seeds to topple. Vaidya seeded fifth lost to MSD’s Chinmay Bal while Sahil Nandanwar upset eighth-seeded Joshi.

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Top seed Omkar Torgalkar also looked like featuring on the casualty list when he lost the first set 13-21 to Nikhli Bhandari. But Torgalkar came back strongly to take the next two games 21-14, 21-16.

The 11-year-old Torgalkar faced little problem in the third round of the boys sub jr group when he beat Shivam Nayak 21-19, 21-18.

RESULTS

Boys Sub Jr (3rd Rd):

1-Ankur Mahajan (MSD) bt Arshad Kokardekar (Nag) 21-7, 21-7; D Mohanty(Nashik) bt Vipul Vaidya (Thane) 19-21, 21-13, 21-14; Omkar Torgalkar (MSD) bt Shivam Nayak (MSD) 21-19, 21-18; 6-Sushant Kulkarni (MSD) bt Amod Tilak 21-13, 21-13; 8-Omkar Tanksale (Thane) bt Ashish Gupta (MSD) 21-17, 19-21, 21-16; 4-Sahil Kukreja bt Nikhil Bokare (Nag) 21-14, 21-16; Rohan Waghmare (Thane) bt Aman Balgu (MSD) 21-15, 21-18; Sohail Kothari (MSD) bt Sanket Utagi (Thane) 21-6, 21-11; Nikhil Bhandari (Thane) bt Pinak Kulkarni (MSD) 21-16, 11-21, 21-19; Alok Phadnis (Thane) bt Aniket Koparekar (Pune) 16-21, 21-12, 21-16; 5-Devamit Datta (Thane) bt Devarat Kajwadkar (Thane) 21-6, 21-8

Cadet (PQF):

1-Omkar Torgalkar (MSD) bt Nikhil Bhandari (Thane) 13-21, 21-14, 21-16; Chinmay Bal (MSD) bt 5-Adwait Vaidya (Pune) 21-14, 21-11; 7-Alok Shah (MSD) bt Chaitanya Udhare (Thane) 21-18, 21-12; Shishir Juvekar (MSD) bt Vivasan Parekh (MSD) 21-11, 21-8; Sanket Utagi (Thane) bt Arnav Dey (Thane) 21-15, 17-21, 21-18; Rohan Chinchwadkar (Thane) bt Ravi Shah (Dhule) 21-13, 21-17; Rohit Borvankar (NGP) bt4-Aniket Koparekar (Pune) 21-16, 29-27; Sahil Nandanwar (Thane) bt 8-Ashish Joshi (Thane) 21-16, 21-10

Girls Cadet (PQF):

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1-Madhurika Patkar (Thane) bt Aparna Kulkarni (Nasik) 21-10, 21-19; Sneha Keshav (MSD) bt Saili Katkar (Thane) 21-13, 21-12; 4-Dharitri Dalvi (Thane) bt Gayatri Mohite (Satara) 21-11, 21-15; Ruta Deshmukh (Thane) bt Shweta Sathe (Thane) 21-7, 21-16; Priya Gabada (Dhule) bt Priyanka Tamhankar (Pune) 21-14, 21-19.

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