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)

Chinmay bags a triple crown.. again!

Photo from DNA - Jignesh Mistrey

Lightning kid Chinmay Datar again bagged a triple crown at the Le Meridien Pune District Ranking tournament at Deccan Gymkhana, Pune conducted under the aegis of PDTTA. The tournament concluded this weekend.

Chinmay beat Aniket Gulwani, Neel Joshi and Shubhankar Ranade in the Men's, Youth, and Junior groups.

Incidentally, Chinmay Datar had bagged 16 titles last year including 3 triple crowns last year. He also participated in two National junior tournaments and upset an International Junior player.