Indian junior boys bow out in TT event

Indian junior boys crashed out of the 2014 Indian Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships after putting up a good fight on the opening day at the Mukherjee Stadium here today.
Taking advantage of being the hosts, they fielded two teams -- India A and India B -- but both failed to grab the opportunity in the face of very good opposition from teams like Singapore A and B teams, Iran, Sweden, besides a mix-team from Iran and Kazakhstan.
India A, which had the likes of Abhishek Yadav, Utkarsh Gupta and Birdie Boro, first failed to match speed and guile of Singapore A's Lam Zheng Jie Edric and Yin Jing Uyan and went down 2-3 and then against Iran's Amiri Nia Soroosh and Basht Bavi Hameed for a similar score line.

This paved the way for both Singapore A and Iran to make it to the second stage of the championships from Group 1, while it will be the mix-team of Iran-Kazakhstan and one other team from Group 2 that will make the cut. The match between Sweden and Singapore B will see the winners qualifying as the second team from the group.
As for India B, consisting of Anirban Ghosh, Nishaad Shah and Siddhant Sunil Parekh lost both their matches to the Iran-Kazakh combine and Sweden 1-3.
However, India A team (Aishwarya Pathak and Abinaya Ramesh) in the junior girls beat Kazakh-Malaysia combination team and India B team (Shruti Vijay Amrute and Archana Giri Kamath). They have two matches against Singapore and India C and the results will determine the eventual winner in this round-robin group.

Like in junior girls section, in the cadet boys also, India fielded three teams -- the other two teams being Singapore and Sweden.
India A (Manav Thakkar and Akaash Nath) notched up wins over both India B (Snehit Suravajjula and Jeet Chandra) and India C (Neeldeep Das and Wesley Do Rosario). They have a match against both Singapore and Sweden, and the table-topper will win the title.