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Friday, February 21, 2014

Harmeet plays the finals of the World Tour Qatar Open Table Tennis Tournament

Harmeet plays the finals of the prestigious Qatar Open at 5:15 PM IST. Please cheer him up!

After beating second Cheng Feng of Singapore in a close encounter in the very first round, Harmeet is functioning like the second seed winning against strong opponents in straight sets! (Angles Enzo and Hugo Calderano). He now faces the daunting task of trying to beat Tristan Flore of France, who is another player in form.

One of the positive aspects of India's rise in World TT is Sharath, Sanil, Soumyajit, Amalraj's performances and also Harmeet and Soumyajit working as a team. Even after losing to Calderano, Soumyajit provided tips to Harmeet, who promptly beat the Brazilian opponent.

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Harmeet Upsets second seed Cheng Feng at the Qatar Open

He just won't stop! Harmeet's next big victim is Cheng Feng (U 21 section) at the Qatar Open Table Tennis tournament in which the Men's top seed is Ma Long.

Harmeet beat the 2nd seed Cheng in the very first round 6-11, 11-5, 11-9, 3-11, 11-5.
Both Harmeet and Soumyajit will play in the Quarter finals.

Photo courtesy Prasad Naik

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Relaxing Table Tennis

Great setting for some relaxed Table Tennis.

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Manika wins two times at the North Zone Table Tennis Championships

Manika Batra is the highest ranked player from India on the World Women's ranking list.
Although she was not seeded at the very top in the Women's event at the North Zone National Ranking Table Tennis Tournament, she won it and also added the Youth girls title to her kitty.

Women's final:
Manika Batra bt Ankita Das (4-3) 11-4, 9-11, 7-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8)

Youth girls final:
Manika Batra bt Suthirtha Mukherjee 4-1 (13-11, 11-9, -11, 11-7, 11-8)

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Madhurikaa Patkar and Amalraj win East Zone National Ranking titles

Madhurikaa Patkar and A Amalraj won the Women's and Men's titles at the East Zone National Ranking Table Tennis tournament at Siliguri. Sutirtha Mukherjee and Abhishek Yadav and won the Youth titles while, Ayhika and Lalrin Puia won the junior titles.

Scores courtesy TTFI. Photos courtesy ITTF.

Men: Final: A Amal Raj (PSPB) bt Soumyajit Ghosh (PSPB) 4-2 (15-13, 11-7, 5-11, 7-11, 11-8,11-8).

Women: Final: Madhurika Patkar bt Mouma Das 4-0 (11-7, 11-2, 11-4, 11-7).

Junior Boys: Final: Lalrin Puia (PSPBA) bt Abhishek Yadav (PSPBA) 4-2

Junior Girls: Final: Ayhika Mukherjee (AAI) bt Sagarika Mukherjee (NB) 4-2

Youth Boys: Final: AbhishekYadav (PSPB) bt Sourav Saha (PSPB) 4-2

Youth Girls: Final: Suthirtha Mukherjee (WB) bt Reeth Tennison (PSPB) 4-2

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)

Monday, October 28, 2013

Xu Xin wins the World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Belgium

Top seed Xu Xin won the World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Verviers, Belgium. In the finals, he beat veteran Vladimir Samsonov 11-6, 12-14, 11-8, 11-9,11-7.

In the semi finals, Xu Xin beat a fighting Ovtcharov 4-3, while Samsonov beat Timo Boll, who is trying to come back from injuries.

Ovtcharov beat Timo Boll to bag the third place.

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