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Good day for N.E. States

By Our Sports Reporter

Assam's Chinmoy Sarma plays a backhand in the BSNL junior National and inter-State table tennis championship in Chennai on Tuesday.

CHENNAI DEC. 24. North Eastern States are generally known to be good at boxing, weightlifting and football. But the growth of table tennis has not been in keeping with the strides of the other sports. Lack of club culture, paucity of sponsorships, and internal politics are some of the reasons why the sport has stagnated for so long.

However, in the BSNL junior National and inter-State table tennis championship, which commenced at the Nehru Indoor Stadium, here, on Tuesday, the N.E. States had a relatively good outing as Assam (boys and girls), Manipur (boys) reached the last sixteen.

From here, the journey will be very tough, no doubt. And they know it pretty well.

Tamil Nadu boys and girls (topped the group), Petroleum Sports Promotion Board Academy, Bengal girls and Maharashtra `A' boys teams also made it to the last sixteen.

The results (league):

Boys: Madhya Pradesh bt Jammu & Kashmir 3-1 (Amit Suvur lost to Nikhil Kesar 11-4, 4-11, 11-8, 11-13; Ankur Joshi bt Adithya Kanwal 11-5, 11-8, 5-11, 8-11, 11-7; Kushal Tare bt Ankur Sachdev 11-9, 8-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-4; Ankur Joshi bt Nikhil Kesar 11-8, 7-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-8).

Manipur bt Haryana 3-2 (N. Imocha bt Deepak Malik 11-9, 11-5, 11-7; N. Nitra lost to Vinay Yadev 8-11, 9-11, 7-11; S. Ranatap lost to Manoj Bhardwaj 11-7, 5-11, 3-11, 7-11; N. Imocha bt Vinay Yadev 11-7, 11-7, 6-11, 8-11, 11-9; N. Nitra bt Deepak Malik 11-13, 11-9, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5).

Punjab bt Pondicherry 3-1 (Rohit Mahajan bt D.T. Karthik 11-6, 12-10, 11-5; Gourav Sharma lost to P. Pradeep 7-11, 4-11, 10-12; Randeep Singh bt B. Ram Prasad 11-8, 12-10, 11-7; Rohit Mahajan bt P. Pradeep 11-9, 11-5, 11-8).

Bengal bt Sikkim 3-0 (Subhadip Das bt Avinash Lama 11-5, 11-3, 11-5; Snehasish Bhattacharya bt Jashi Lepcha 11-8, 11-5, 10-12, 11-5; Amarnath Das bt Bijay Subha 1-2, 11-0, 11-4).

Assam bt Uttaranchal 3-0 (Plaban Sonowal bt Ankur Saxena 11-4, 11-5, 8-11, 11-5; Gowri Shankar bt S. Kundan Gherim 11-2, 11-8, 7-11, 11-4; Paras Pratim Baruah bt Gaorav Choudry 11-4, 11-7, 11-4).

Karnataka bt Goa 3-0 (Uday Atreya bt Dhijit Velingker 11-8, 11-3, 11-6; Prateek bt Reagan Pinto 11-8, 11-9, 5-11, 11-8; C.P. Kartic bt Tito Diniz 11-6, 11-4, 11-9).

Rajasthan bt Jharkand 3-0 (Tarun bt Sitesh Pandey 11-6, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5; Sameer bt Bikramjit 11-7, 11-2, 11-8; Praveen bt Sumeet Kumar 11-6, 7-11, 11-8, 11-8).

Delhi bt Tripura 3-0 (Sunal Jain bt Chirantan Saha 11-8, 11-8, 11-3; Nishank Bajaj bt Sujar Deb 11-3, 11-1, 11-7; Aditya Baxi bt Onker Debbrma 11-2, 9-11, 11-3, 11-5).

Uttar Pradesh bt Orissa 3-0 (Harshit bt P. Bhaskar Rao 11-5, 11-6, 11-3; Mandeep bt Tohid Haque 7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 13-11; Anshul bt Amit Dasmahapatra 11-4, 11-4, 11-4).

Andhra Pradesh w/o Himachal Pradesh.

Karnataka bt Jharkand 3-0 (C.P. Karthik bt Sitesh Pandey 11-4, 12-10, 11-9; Uday Athreya bt Kanchan Dutta 11-4, 11-7, 11-6; Akhil Rangan bt Bikramjeet 11-6, 11-5, 11-4).

Bengal bt Uttaranchal 3-0 (Nilay Basak bt Kundan Gimere 11-9, 11-7, 11-1; Subhadip Das bt Ankur Saxena 11-2, 11-4, 11-9; Amarnath Das bt Arpit Singh 11-0, 11-3, 11-3).

PSPBA bt Madhya Pradesh 3-0 (Amalraj bt Ankur Joshi 11-7, 11-8, 12-10; Devesh Karia bt Amit Suveer 11-4, 11-9, 11-9; Arunava Ganguly bt Khushal Tare 11-2, 11-6, 11-1).

Mahrashtra `A' bt Manipur 3-0 (Aniket Bhopalkar bt Imomcha Singh 11-4, 6-11, 11-5, 11-2; Omkar Togalkar bt N. Nitra Singh 11-9, 11-5, 11-7; Sanil Shetty bt Rajivkanta 11-5, 11-8, 11-2.

Delhi bt Chattisgarh 3-0 (Ashish Duklan bt Anshum Roy 11-8, 11-5, 6-11, 11-3; Nishank Bajaj bt Vikram Gupta 9-11, 11-3, 11-7, 11-9; Aditya Puri bt Amul Badjatya 2-11, 11-3, 11-7, 11-3).

U.P. bt Bihar 3-0 (Ansul Garb bt Sumir Chakravarthy 11-8, 4-11, 11-5, 11-8; Harshid Chand bt Siddhartha Vijay 11-7, 11-5, 11-6; Mandip Singh bt Francis 11-6, 11-8, 11-6).

Tamil Nadu bt Pondicherry 3-0 (Rajath Kamal bt P. Pradeep 11-6, 11-3, 11-6; R. Abishek bt D.T. Karthick 11-5, 11-8, 11-6; M. Subash bt M. Raghuraman 11-2, 11-7, 11-6).

Kerala bt Chandigarh 3-1 (V. Vidhun bt Aditya Puri 11-5, 9-11, 6-11, 11-5, 11-7; S. Sreeraj bt Sajai Kaushal 5-11, 11-9, 10-12, 11-6, 12-10; Vishujith lost to Nitish Rana 6-11, 11-8, 8-11, 9-11; S. Sreeraj bt Aditya 11-1, 11-9, 11-8).

Girls: Kerala bt Tripura 3-0 (Meenu Raj bt Nabanitha Das 11-7, 11-3, 11-5; Aparna D. Nair bt Sangitha Das 11-3, 11-4, 11-5; Anjana Gopal bt Tandree Das 11-3, 11-2, 11-2).

Gujarat bt Rajasthan 3-0 (Sapna Sharma bt Shilpi Purohid 11-6, 11-9, 12-10; Himani Bhat bt Indu Ujjawal 11-9, 9-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-8; Aanchal Malhotra bt Deepika Nagori 9-11, 7-11, 11-5, 11-8).

Maharashtra `B' bt Sikkim 3-0 (Prajokta Tipale bt Jeena Subba 11-2, 11-5, 11-5; Julie Inamdar bt Jharna Pradhan 11-5, 11-5, 11-3; Nupur Gaidhani bt Wangmu Bhutia 11-2, 11-6, 11-3).

Uttar Pradesh bt Chandigarh 3-2 (Silva Verma bt Arshdeep Kaur 11-9, 11-5, 12-10; Shabini Sharma bt Raman Preet Kaur 11-5, 11-7, 11-8; Ruchi Tiwari lost to Mohima 12-14, 7-11, 9-11; Shabini Sharma lost to Arshdeep Kaur 8-11, 9-11, 11-8, 8-11; Sila Verma bt Raman Preet Kaur 11-2, 11-9,11-6).

Chattisgarh bt Jharkand 3-0 (Nivedita bt Sona Nishad 11-6, 11-4, 11-4; Rachita bt Supriya Singh 11-4, 11-4, 11-6; Bharti bt Neha Singh 11-3, 11-7, 11-7).

Pondicherry bt Orissa 3-1 (S. Susan Magi bt Chinmaya Naik 11-8, 6-11, 11-6, 11-2; Kapa Shreethi bt Amrita P. Pathi 9-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-8; G. Shruthi lost to Rabana Yunus 7-11, 9-11, 8-11; Kapa Shreethi bt Chinmaya Naik 8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 4-11, 11-9).

Andhra Pradesh bt Bihar 3-0 (K. Samhitha bt Shaika Parveen 14-12, 11-8, 11-5; N. Bhanusree bt Rinki Ghosh 12-14, 11-7, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7; A. Bhavya bt Chumki Mandal 11-6, 11-6, 11-8).

Assam w/o Himachal Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh bt Jammu & Kashmir 3-0 (Naida Pasha bt Chand Preet 11-8, 9-11, 11-3, 11-9; Pankheenij bt Shagun 11-8, 11-8, 11-3; Swati Joix bt Savera 11-8, 11-6, 11-3).

Haryana bt Goa 3-0 (Monika bt Unaine D'Souza 11-8, 11-2, 11-3; Richa bt Lorrena Pinto 11-4, 9-11, 11-4, 11-2; Sidmi bt Mughdha Mahambrey 11-1, 11-6, 11-4).

Uttaranchal bt Punjab 3-2 (Swati Sharma bt Manisha Sharma 11-8, 11-7, 9-11, 11-9; Vinita Bhatt lost to Anjali Dhawan 11-5, 7-11, 6-11, 7-11; Bhawana lost to Ravneet Kaur 7-11, 11-7, 9-11, 1-11; Swati Sharma bt Anjali Dhawan 12-10, 11-5, 11-8; Vinita Bhatt bt Manisha Sharma 14-12, 11-7, 6-11, 11-9).

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