Fifteen-year-old Suhana Saini scripted three astonishing comeback victories to win her maiden girls title before Payas Jain expectedly took the boys title in style as curtains came down on the UTT National ranking table tennis championship on Friday. For the boys’ title, top seed Payas Jain showed his growing class in the age-group competitions with a 11-4, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9 …
Extending her dominance in the domestic circuit, Maharashtra paddler Diya Chitale clinched her second successive youth girls singles title at the UTT 82nd Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships. Earlier in the semi-finals, Diya defeated Uttar Pradesh’s Radhapriya Goel 11-8, 11-8, 11-4, 11-9 comfortably while Yashaswini entered the final with a 7-11, 11-3, 11-6, 11-8, 11-4 win against Anannya …
Diya’s 4-3 triumph was full of a character-assessment lesson for any youngster watching the match, as the Maharashtra paddler, down 2-3 and 3-5 in the sixth game, first built up confidence and then the points to outsmart Karnataka’s Yashaswini Ghorphade. Indore: Defending champion Diya Chitale retained the youth girls title with a hard-fought win while Swastika Ghosh came-from behind to …
In what turned out to be a major organisational and logistical success, the Haryana Table Tennis Association became the first to stage its state championship in a bio-secure environment at the Delhi Public School complex here. The five-day championship attracted nearly 400 players from all over the state and went off without any glitches after the event followed the protocols …
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