Naina, Manav Thakkar bag East Zone National Table Tennis titles

Naina and Manav Thakkar won the Sub Junior girls and boys titles at the National Table Tennis tournament at Siliguri.
Tanishi Kirtani and Udit Bhattacharya won the Cadet titles.

Results:
Sub-Junior Boys: Final: Manav Thakkar (PSPBA) bt Ronit Bhanja (WB) 4-1 (6-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-7, 11-6)

Sub-Junior Girls: Final: Naina (AP) bt Moumita Dutta (WB) 4-3 (11-8, 10-12, 11-8, 9-11, 6-11, 11-9, 12-10)

Cadet Boys: Final: Udit Bhattacharya (WB) bt Rohan Ghosh (WB) 4-0 ( 11-8, 11-6, 11-7,11-7)

Cadet Girls: Final: Tanishi Kirtani (Goa) bt Neha Kumari (NB) 4-3 (11-3, 11-7, 7-11, 8-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-7)

Gold medals galore for the Indian Cadet Table Tennis Team at El Salvador

This is certainly Indian Table Tennis history being re-written! The very young cadet team swept most titles at El Salvador beating more senior International ranked players, including in the much higher age group of Under 18, even though they are Under 15! Three cheers !!!

We are losing count of the Gold medals , just listing some achievements of the many winners and runners up.
Anirban Ghosh (Gold U 18 boys, rare record for India from a Cadet boy, team gold, Gold Cadet Boys)
Birdie Boro (Silver U 18 close final against Anirban, Gold Cadet team, Silver Cadet doubles)
Arjun Ghosh (Cadet boys doubles Gold, Team medal)
Sreeja Akula (Gold U 18 girls, rare record for India from a Cadet girl)
Moumita Dutta (Gold Cadet girls, Gold Cadet girls doubles)
Sagarika Mukherjee (Cadet girls, junior girls medals)

(Photo courtesy Aishwarya Pathak)

Birdie Boro and Anirban Ghosh win Cadet Team title at El Salvador

The Indian Cadet Table Tennis team again dominated the team events at 2013 El Salvador Junior & Cadet Open - ITTF Junior Circuit. In both the Boys and Girls sections, two Indian teams played out the finals!

Birdie Boro and Anirban Ghosh played in the Cadet Boys finals winning team against Lalrin Puia and Arjun Ghosh while Sagarika Mukherjee and Calange Ravichandran Harsha Vardhini beat Moumita Dutta and Aishwarya Pathak.

(Please note that photo is only indicative, is the old Cadet team)

Indian Junior and Cadet players to participate in the Guatemala Junior and Cadet Open

India's official entries for the Guatemala Junior & Cadet Open - ITTF Junior Circuit has several budding talents including Anirban

Ghosh, Birdie Boro and Sutirtha Mukherjee.

The tournament runs from Aug 7 to 10.

Full list of Indian Junior and Cadet players.
BORO Birdie
PUIA Lalrin
GHOSH Anirban
GHOSH Arjun
MUKHERJEE Sagarika
CALANGE RAVICHANDRAN Harsha Vardhini
AKULA Sreeja
DUTTA Moumita
PATHAK Aishwarya

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