The Haryana pair of Jubin Kumar and Sourav Chakraborty snatched the men's doubles title from Rajasthan's Vivek Bhargava and Sudhanshu Grover 3-2 in the 75th Senior National Table Tennis Championships today.
The women's double crown went to Railways' Anindita Chakraborty and Pallabi Kundu, who beat Airports Authority of India's Nikhat Banu and Krittwika Sinha Roy 3-1 at the Patliputra Sports Complex here.
In the men's double the Haryana duo were on the verge of defeat with Grover and Bharagava on championship point at 10-9. But Grover, in his anxiety, received the ball at an awkward angle from left-hander Jubin only to send it out, giving a lease of life to Haryana.
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Earlier, the Rajasthan combine led 9-6 only to let the Haryana players come back.
At 10-10 it was anybody's match when both the pairs picked a point each to be at 11-all. When the service returned to Rajasthan, Chakraborty returned well, to earn the crucial point. Then it was left to Jubin to finish the job on his serve and Grover, yet again, sent a long ball for Haryana to celebrate.
In the Women's doubles the experienced Railways duo simply outwitted the AAI combine. After losing the first game the two veterans came to grips with their combination play which confused the AAI duo of Nikhat and Krittiwika.
They were, however, unable to emerge from the mire inspite of stretching the RSPB pair in the third game to 10-12. With a comfortable 2-1 lead, Anindita and Pallabi just completed the demolition job within five minutes.
Results (Doubles Finals): Men: Jubin Kumar/Sourav Chakraborty of Haryana defet Vivek Bhargava/Sudhanshu Grover 3-2 (11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 7-11, 13-11).
Women : Anindita Chakraborty/Pallabi Kundu of (RSPB) beat Nikhat Bhanu/Krittwika Sinha Roy of (AAI) 3-1 (9-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-5).
