National table tennis championship: Seeded teams cruise into quarterfinals
The HinduThere isn’t a whiff of a doubt that the women’s team of Reserve Bank of India, the top seed, is the favourite despite PSPB being the defending champion. RBI proved it in ample measure with an imposing 3-0 victory over Kerala in the pre-quarterfinals of the Senior National inter-state table tennis championships in Jammu on Tuesday. Tamil Nadu defeated Telangana 3-0 to reach the women’s quarterfinals and set up a meeting with West Bengal. The results : Men: PSPB bt Uttarakhand 3-0; West Bengal bt Karnataka 3-1; Uttar Pradesh bt Gujarat 3-0; Delhi bt Punjab 3-0; Haryana bt TTFI 3-0; Telangana bt Manipur 3-0; Maharashtra bt Madhya Pradesh 3-0; RSPB bt Assam 3-0. Women: RBI bt Kerala 3-0; Haryana bt Chandigarh 3-0; Delhi bt Karnataka 3-1; Maharashtra bt Assam 3-1; West Bengal bt Gujarat 3-0; Tamil Nadu bt Telangana 3-0; Madhya Pradesh bt TTFI 1 3-1; PSPB bt Andhra Pradesh 3-0.