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 NGP8217;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 MSD8217;s Chinmay Bal while Sahil Nandanwar upset eighth-seeded Joshi.

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 MohantyNashik 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.