China junior girls upset India A, India B qualify for semi-finals

Jr. Table Tennis Championship kick-started at the newly constructed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, NSCI on Wednesday

China’s Yanmei Yang and Li Anqi in action

 against India A

Mumbai Oct 16th 2013(Sailesh Gandhi):Third seeds China kicked off their campaign with a surprise 3-0 win over top seeds India A in a Group I Junior Girls tie, in the $US8000 Reliance India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships, that got under way at the NSCI Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium on Wednesday.

India’s Suthirtha Mukherjee and Manika
Batra in action against China

Little known Chinese girls Yanmei Yang and Li Anqi were the underdogs but ignored the reputations of the host players to snatch a sensational win. Yang overcame world No. 60 Suthirtha Mukherjee 3-1 in the opening singles, while Anqi rallied from 1-2 down to prevail over world No. 30 Manika Batra in a 3-2 thriller. Yang and Anqi later combined to win the doubles 3-0 to complete the rout.

India A made amends later to keep their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals alive when they beat India C 3-0.

Meanwhile, India B junior girls qualified for the semi-finals from Group II, following wins over India D and India-China. Joining the girls in the last four were India A and B junior boys.

In the Cadet boys, India A registered wins over United Arab Emirates and India C to qualify, while India’s A and B squads qualified in the Cadet girls category.

Results: 

Junior Boys:  

Group 1: 

India A bt India E 3-0 (Abhishek Yadav bt Sanish Ambekar 11-8, 6-11, 11-5, 11-7, Sudhanshu Grover bt Chinmay Vinod 11-8, 8-11, 8-11, 11-9, 13-11; India A bt China-Iran 3-0 (Sudhanshu Grover bt Huabing He 11-6, 11-6, 11-3, Abhishek Yadav bt Nia Sooroosh Amiri 11-1, 11-4, 13-11, Sudhanshu/Abhishek bt He/Amiri 11-3, 11-7, 11-9.

Group 2: 

Inda B bt India D 3-0 (Utkarsh Gupta bt Nishad Shah 11-7, 4-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, Sabhya Virmani bt Mudit Dani 11-5, 11-7, 11-8, Utkarsh/Sabhya bt Nishaad/Mudit 13-15, 11-3, 9-11, 11-5, 11-4; India B bt India C 3-0 (Utkarsh Gupta bt Rohit Rajasekhar 11-9, 11-4, 8-11, 11-6, Sabhya Virmani bt Sameera Kumar 11-2, 11-9, 11-7, Utkarsh/Sabhya
bt Rohit/Sameera Kumar 11-8, 12-10, 5-11, 11-5.

Junior Girls: 

Group 1: China bt India A 3-0 (Yanmei Yang bt Suthirtha Mukherjee 8-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-5, Anqi Li bt Manika Batra 6-11, 11-6, 4-11, 11-6, 11-7, Yang/Li bt Manika/Suthirtha 11-7, 11-4, 11-6; India A bt India C 30 (Manika Batra bt Mallika Bhandarkar 8-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-5, Suthirtha Mukherjee bt Narisimha Priya 13-11, 11-7, 11-7,
Manika/Suthirtha bt Mallika/Priya 11-7, 9011, 13-11, 11-6.

Group 2: India B bt India D 3-0 (Ayhika Mukherjee bt Devika Bhide 18-11, 11-7, 11-6, Reeth Tennison bt Shireen Inamdar 11-1, 11-9, 11-8, Ayhika/Reeth bt Devika/Shireen 11-7, 11-5, 11-6; India B bt China-India 3-2 (Ayhika Mukherjee bt Senhora D’Souza 11-7, 11-6, 11-8, Teeth Tennison lost to Xiaotong Sun 8-11, 6-11, 11-6, 8-11, Ayhika/Reeth bt Senhora/Sun 7-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-5, Ayhika Mukherjee lost to Xiaotong Sun 11-4, 11-7, 3-11, 6-11, 7-11, Reeth Tennison bt Senhora D’Souza 11-6, 8-11, 9-11, 11-4, 11-6.

Cadet Boys: 

Group 1: 

India A bt UAE 3-0 (Birdie Boro bt Abdullaa Albalooshi 11-5, 11-5, 11-6, Anirban Ghosh bt Salah Al-Balooshi 11-6, 11-4, 11-4, Birdie/Anirban bt Abdulla/Salah 11-7, 11-6, 11-13, 14-12; India A bt India C 3-0 (Birdie Boro bt Lalhunhlua 11-8, 5-11, 11-9, 11-2, Anirban Ghosh bt Lalrin Puia 11-8, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5, Birdie/Anirban bt Lalhunhlua/Puia 11-5, 11-7, 10-12, 11-3.

Group 2: 

India B bt India-UAE 3-0 (Arjun Ghosh bt Saif Alfalasi 11-5, 11-2, 11-3, Ayush Tayal bt Shaurya Tushar 11-5, 11-9, 11-8, Arjun/Ayush bt Shaurya/Saif 11-6, 11-8, 11-7; China bt Nigeria-India 3-0 (Yuhao Wang bt Hammed Osibanjo 11-4, 11-8, 11-7, Beizeng Wang lost to Siddhesh Mukund 5-11, 9-11, 7-11, Yuhao/Beizeng bt Hammed/Siddhesh
11-7, 11-7, 11-6;  India B bt China 3-1 (Ayush Tayal lost to Yuhao Wang 11-8, 6-11, 4-11, 6-11, Arjun Ghosh bt Beizeng Wang 13-11, 14-12, 11-8, Ayush/Arjun bt Yuhao/Beizeng 11-9, 11-9, 10-12, 11-2;
Nigeria-India bt India-UAE Siddhesh Mukund bt Sail Alfalasi 6-11, 11-2, 11-8, 11-3, Hammed Osibanjo lost to Shaurya Tushar 11-9, 7-11, 11-9, 7-11, 9-11, Siddhesh/Hammed bt Saif/Shaurya 11-8, 11-6, 5-11, 11-8.

Cadet Girls:  

Group 1: 

India B bt India D 3-0 (Sreeja Kula bt Ashlesha Trehan 8-11, 11-7, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5, Moumita Dutta bt Mansi Mahendra 11-13, 13-11, 11-3, 11-9, Sreeja/Moumita bt Ashlesha/Mansi 11-6, 13-11, 9-11, 11-8; India B bt India C 3-2 (Moumita Dutta bt Naina 11-5, 119, 13-11, Sreeja Akula bt Shruti Vijay Amrute 11-5, 4-11, 11-6, 5-11, 11-7, Moumita/Sreeja  lost to Naina/Shruti 10-12, 10-12, 7-11, Sreeja Akula lost to Naina 5-11, 11-5, 7-11, 8-11, Moumita Dutta bt Shruti Vijay Amrute 11-7, 11-4, 11-9.

Group 2: 

India A bt India E 3-0 (Calange Ravichandra bt Dyuti Sagar 11-9, 11-8, 11-6, Sagarika Mukherjee bt Srushti Halengadi 12-10, 11-5, 11-2, Calange/Sagarika bt Dyuti/Srushti 11-6, 7-11, 11-5, 9-11, 12-10; India A bt Hong Kong-India 3-0 (Calange Ravichandra bt Desiree Hung 11-4, 11-6, 11-3, Sagarika Mukherjee bt Aishwarya Pathak 11-7, 11-4,
9-11, 4-11, 11-7, Calange/Sagarika bt Desiree/Aishwarya 11-3, 12-10, 11-4.