4th Day Results of the Maharashtra State Ranking Tournament at Thane

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 Here are the results of the Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament held at Thane 2-6 August 2011.

Results of Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at Thane

Rutuja Khopkar and Coach Mahendra Chiplunkar

Sub Junior Boys

Semi-Final

 

Siddhesh Pande(THN) [Seed - 1] Bt Siddhesh Kubal(THN) 11/5,11/7,11/8,11/6

Kalpak Bansod(NGP) [Seed - 2] Bt Anay Dave(MSD) [Seed - 6] 5/11,5/11,6/11,11/8,11/8,11/7,17/15

Final

Kalpak Bansod(NGP) [Seed - 2] Bt Siddhesh Pande(THN) [Seed - 1] 6/11,12/10,13/11,7/11,4/11,11/8,11/8

Sub Junior Girls Singles

Semi-Final

Simran Haria(MSD) [Seed - 11] Bt Ashlesha Trehan(MSD) [Seed - 2]  12/10,6/11,11/5,11/5,3/11,11/7

Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 5] Bt Shruti Amrute(THN) [Seed - 1] 13/11,5/11,9/11,13/11,11/9,9/11,11/9

Final

Simran Haria(MSD) [Seed - 11] Bt Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 5] 9/11,11/6,7/11,11/5,11/5,7/11,11/6

Cadet Boys Singles

Semi-Final

Shaurya Pednekar(MSD) [Seed - 1] Bt Sanat Bokil(PNA) [Seed - 5] 11/8,11/8,11/8

Ashwin S(MSD) [Seed - 6] Bt Kavish Nagpal(MSD) [Seed - 2] 11/9,11/5,11/4

Final

Shaurya Pednekar(MSD) [Seed - 1] Bt Ashwin S(MSD) [Seed - 6]

7/11,11/7,11/6,11/3

Cadet Girls Singles

Semi-Final

Snehal Patil(THN) [Seed - 3] Bt Kadambari Bhandarkar(NGP) [Seed - 7] 10/12,11/1,12/10,11/8

Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 4] Bt Payal Bohra(MSD) [Seed - 1] 11/7,11/7,11/7

Final

Srushti Haleangadi(MSD) [Seed - 4] Bt Snehal Patil(THN) [Seed - 3]

11/6,11/7,11/3

Junior Girls Quarter finals

Jagruti Murbadkar(THN) [Seed - 4] Bt Shruti Amrute(THN) [Seed - 12] 11/7,12/10,11/7,11/7

Senhora Dsouza(MCD) [Seed - 1] Bt Noopur Walve(THN) [Seed - 9] 11/6,4/11,11/8,10/12,11/6,11/7

Urvi Walve(THN) Bt Devika Bhide(PNA) [Seed - 3] 4/11,11/7,3/11,11/8,15/13,5/11,11/6

Rutuja Khopkar(THN) [Seed - 2] Bt Sanika Muley(ABD) [Seed - 7] 11/7,11/9,9/11,11/13,11/6,2/11,11/5

Timo Boll vs Ma Lin. Timo wins!

Watch the titans in action as Timo beats Ma Lin in the World Cup 2005.

Naina goes Global with her amazing exploits

India's most talented Table Tennis Player, Naina is in Hong Kong for an international tournament. Ealier, she was in China for advanced training. She will go back to China to continue her training stint. Naina is also now on the ITTF Hopes team, having received training from Schlager earlier.

The training school at which Naina is receiving training and technical education boasts of a highly regarded coach, Zhang, who has nutured several Olympic Gold medallists. Zhang has forty years of experience in Table Tennis training. We hope that Naina picks up the tricks to bag medals at Olympics in the future!

By the way, here are the ITTF Hopes teams:

Boys: Wong Ho Hin (Hong Kong), Youssef Abdel-Aziz (Egypt), Filip Radovic (Montenegro), Kunal Chodri (United States), Kanak Jha (United States)

Girls: Vaness Leung Tsz Ching (Hong Kong), Ng Yuen Wai (Hong Kong), Monapsorn Saritapirak (Thailand), Adriana Diaz (Puerto Rico), Angela Zhan (Australia), and Naina (India)

Sharath leads the Indian Challenge at Chile Pro Tour

India is fielding 18 of it's best players at the Chile Pro Tour Table Tennis Tournament at Santiago on Aug 10-14.

Sharath is seeded third in the Men's event. In addition to this, India has four other seeded players in the top 16, which is unprecedented in a Pro Tour event. India even boasts of 3 seeds in the Women's event.
Sharath is partnering Soumyadeep Roy at this event in the doubles and they are the second seeds.

India's brighest chances are also the youngest with Soumyajit Ghosh and Harmeet Desai as the top two seeds in the Boys U-21 event. Manika Batra is the lone seed in the Girls U-21 section. 

1     ACHANTA Sharath Kamal
2     SAHA Subhajit 
3     RAVICHANDRAN Abishek 
4     GHOSH Soumyajit
5     ROY Soumyadeep  
6     CHAKRABORTY Sourav 
7     DESAI Harmeet 
8     GNANASEKARAN Sathiyan 
9     SHETTY Sanil  
10     SAHA Sourav 
11     KUMARESAN Shamini 
12     PATKAR Madhurika  
13     GHATAK Poulomi 
14     BATRA Manika 
15     PRABHU Mamata 
16     DAS Ankita  
17     SAHASRABUDHE Pooja
18     DESHPANDE Divya  

Valeri Kim wins the 2011 Techflash title

(PSBJ photo/Marcus Donner)

Valeri Kim beat Tatyana Schastlivay of Akvelon to win theTechflash Table Tennis Championship.

The tournament was held at the Showbox SoDo. Kim is a developer at Microsoft. It was his third title. A total of over 80 players participated in the tourney.


Yiyong Fan of the Washington Table Tennis Center in Bellevue and the No. 5 in all of the USA gave a lightning display.

Nagpur State Ranking Final Day Results

Here are the results of the final day at the Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at Nagpur.

Wang Hao - Lost and injured, but still a Big hearted Hero

Wang Hao was injured on his left foot before his club Bayi's match against Bazhou in the Chinese Super League. So far, Wang Hao had spearheaded the challenge against much feared opponents, ably helped by teenager Yan An.

Wang Hao first lost to Cui Qinglei and then decided to play the reverse rubber even though he was injured. And his reason for doing this? "“The audience has come all the way here to watch and that is the reason why I need to play.” Now, this is the spirit that will make Table Tennis popular. Wang Hao sensed that the crowd has arrived to watch him and Xu Xin (both super stars in China) play. Wang did not stand a chance against the fit and agile Xu Xin and duly lost. But he won many hearts.

Immediately after the match, he flew to Beijing to consult doctors. Wang Tao, a former World Championship finalist and the coach of the team, was a worried man. He was hoping that the super hero will be back in action in the Main rounds since Bayi has already qualified mainly due to Wang Hao's earlier exploits.

We salute the Hero, down but definitely not out!

Sanmay repeats double with authority

Sanmay Paranjape won the Youth and Men's titles at Nagpur. This time he won both the finals 4-0.

Vedika Garg won the Women's title, while Sruja Bhat grabbed the Youth girls crown. Pune dominated the tournament by winning the Junior Boys and Girls crown when Chinmay Datar and Devika Bhide won.

Details and results to follow.

The Gritty Jan Ove Waldner! Read this.

Excerpt from an amazing article:

Summer 1980:
Jan-Ove Waldner visits China for the first time. The boy, who already has the reputation of a prodigy, plays in front of 12,000 enthusiastic spectators at the Shanghai Open. He experiences hard training for the first time in his life. The caretaker, of the hall in which he is practising, challenges him to a match and wins easily. Jan-Ove plays against many Chinese teenagers and loses many matches. Nevertheless, he learns from every encounter. He stores techniques, tactics and countless details in his brain. Deep in his subconscious mind burns the passion of this small boy: I'll show them! I'll beat the lot of them!".

Read the fascinating rise and rise of the Table Tennis legend Jan Ove Waldner at the following URL: http://www.tabletennis-sportsm​adison.com/en/action-contingut​s.continguts+subcat-731/The+Ja​n-Ove+Waldner+story.htm

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