Gujarat top, PSPB flop in TT Nationals

Manush Shah clinched a double title to make it a profitable outing for Gujarat even as Petroleum Sports Academy boys drew a blank in the 77th Cadet and Sub-Junior National Table Tennis Championships at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here today.
Shortly after pairing with Soham Pandya to win the doubles, top-seeded Manush defeated his partner 4-0 to clinch his maiden Sub-Junior singles title to reign supreme in the section where they had earlier won the team trophy.
In the doubles, the Gujarat duo beat PSPBA's Jeho and Alberto Lrruata 3-1.
Top seed Manushree Patil of Maharashtra won the sub-junior girls crown beating North Bengal's Nikita Sarkar 4-3.

Delhi's Ishita Gupta and Amiesha Dhall clinched the sub-junior doubles to shatter Manushtree's quest for a second title as she along with her partner Swastika Ghosh who lost 1-3.
Tamil Nadu's Vishwa Deenadayalan kept his top billing intact and beat Delhi's Payas Jain to win his first cadet boys singles gold.

What Payas could not do Lakshita Narang did for Delhi, blanking qualifier Ambika Gupta from Uttar Pradesh for a 4-0 verdict and gold on her first appearance.
It was a pathetic outing for the PSPB Academy boys as they returned empty handed in the individual category with their only medal, a silver, coming in the team category.

Results
Sub-Junior Boys: Final: Manush Shah (Guj) bt Soham Pandya 11-9, 11-6, 11-6, 11-5; Semifinals: Manush Shah bt Jayabrata Bhattacharjee (NB) 11-4, 11-3, 11-7, 11-3, Soham Pandya bt Shakreja Gourang (Del) 11-5, 11-5, 12-10, 11-4; Quarterfinals: Manush Shah bt H. Jeho (PSPBA) 4-0, Jayabrata Bhattacharjee bt Hardik Khurana (Del) 4-0, Shakreja Gourang bt Shubahdeep (WB) 4-2, Soham Pandya bt Anukram Jain (PSPBA) 4-3.
Doubles: Final: Manush Shah/Soham Pandya (Guj) bt H. Jeho/Alberto Lrruata (PSPBA) 11-6, 12-10, 9-11, 14-12.
Sub-Junior Girls: Final: Manushree Patil (Mah) bt Nikita Sarkar (NB) 11-5, 9-11, 11-7, 8-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-7; Semifinals: Nikita Sarkar bt Swastika Ghosh (Mah) 12-10, 11-9, 9-11, 11-3, 11-7, Manushree Patil bt Ishita Gupta (Del) 9-11, 11-9, 12-10, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7, 12-10; Quarterfinals: Nikita Sarkar bt Prapti Sen (WB) 4-1, Swastika Ghosh bt Vanshika Bhargava 4-1, Ishita Gupta bt Diya Chitale (Mah) 4-3, Manushree Patil bt Ameisha Dhall (Del) 4-2.

Doubles: Final: Ishita Gupta/Amiesha Dhall (Del) bt Manushree Patil/Swastika Ghosh (Mah) 12-10, 10-12, 11-9, 11-6.
Cadet Boys: Final: Vishwa Deenadayalan (TN) bt Payas Jain (Del) 14-16, 10-12, 13-11, 11-4, 13-11, 7-11, 11-5; Semifinals: Payas Jain bt Divyansh Srivastava (UP) 11-3, 11-9, 13-11, 11-4, Vishwa Deenadayalan bt Varun Ganesh (TN) 9-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-2, 11-6; Quarterfinals: Payas Jain bt Marcose Gigu (KNT) 3-1, Divyansh Srivastava bt Jash Modi (Mah) 3-0, Varun Ganesh bt Rudra Narayan Ghosh (WB) 3-1, Vishwa Deenadayalan bt Soumyadeep Sarkar (NB) 4-0.
Cadet Girls: Final: Lakshita Narang bt Ambita Gupta (UP) 11-7, 11-7, 11-8, 11-8; Semifinals: Ambika Gupta bt Sathvika Srinivasan 11-8, 7-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-9, Lakshita Narang bt Anargya Manjunat (KNT) 9-11, 9-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-7, 11-9; Quarterfinals: Ambika Gupta bt Kavyasree Baskar (TN) 3-1, Sathvika Srinivasan bt Sucheta Prosad (WB) 3-1, Anargaya Manjunath bt Tiyasa Chatterjee (WB) 3-2, Lakshita Narang bt Shreya Shiva Kumar (TN) 3-0.