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Jash, Pritha, Gloria excel with ease
MUMBAI: Jash Modi won the cadet boys’ crown with an emphatic 11-9, 11-7, 11-7 win over Havish Asrani in the Bombay YMCA 4th Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis
MUMBAI: Jash Modi won the cadet boys’ crown with an emphatic 11-9, 11-7, 11-7 win over Havish Asrani in the Bombay YMCA 4th Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament, at the University Pavilion. Pritha Vartikar also showed similar urgency in her 11-9, 11-9, 11-8 victory over Sampada Bhiwandkar in the cadet girls’ final.
Gloria George too grabbed the midget girls’ title with a straight win over Devyani Kulkarni although slackening towards the end for a 11-4, 11-7, 12-10 outcome.
FINAL RESULTS
Boys’ - sub-juniors: Dev Shroff bt Karan Kukreja 11-3, 11-5, 11-4, 11-5; Midgets: Akshat Jain bt Gaurav Panchangam 12-10, 11-9, 3-11, 11-8; Cadets: J Modi bt Havish Asrani 11-9, 11-7, 11-7. Girls’ - sub-juniors: Aditi Sinha bt Vidhi Shah 8-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-6, 11-4; Midgets: G George bt Devyani Kulkarni 11-4, 11-7, 12-10; Cadets: P Vartikar bt Sampada Bhiwandkar 11-9, 11-9, 11-8.
HABIB ADVANCES
Rafath Habib scored wins against Jatinder Dawer, Sahil Nayar and Vilas Upsham to make progress from the preliminary, Group U contests in the Otters Club All India 9-Ball Pool Tournament, on Sunday.
Nayar too advanced following his 7-2 win over Upsham in the concluding double elimination round tie.
Advancing from Group T were Hritik Jain and Adit Raja.
RESULTS
Group T: H Jain bt A Raja 7-6; Jain bt J Shroff 7-1; Raja bt D Bhandari 7-5; Jain bt A Chandran 7-0; Shroff bt M Mayekar 7-5; Raja bt S Chabria 7-3; Bhandari bt C Chabria 7-3; Group U: R Habib bt V Upsham 7-2; Habib bt S Nayar 7-2; Upsham bt J Chaudhary 7-4; Habib bt J Dawer 7-0; Nayar bt V Gehani 7-3; Chaudhary w/o K Shetty.
CARNELIES NETS BRACE
Carnelies Rodrigues struck a brace of goals and Aryan Bhalerao netted one in St Paul, Dadar’s 3-0 win over St John the Evangelist, Andheri in the Mumbai Schools Sports Association’s boys under-16, Fourth Division football tournament play-off at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel.
RESULTS
Boys under-16, Fourth Division playoffs: Ryan, Kandivali 4 (Aniket Singh, Sarth Gamare, Rohan Pillai, Romit Shah) bt St Thomas, Goregaon 0; Rustomjee, Dahisar 2 (Smeet Shah, Om Ved) bt JJ Academy, Mulund 0; St Arnold, Andheri 1 (Sunil Shah) bt Holy Name, Colaba 1 (Mitesh Baria) via tie-breaker shoot-out 4-3; St Paul, Dadar 3 (Carnelies Rodrigues 2, Aryan Bhalerao) bt St John the Evangelist, Andheri 0.
