Table tennis: Kotian upsets Yadav; Balgu stuns Mondal

August 01, 2015 12:13 am | Updated March 29, 2016 12:19 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

Top seed and defending champion G. Sathiyan cruised past Sivananda Seshadri in the second round. Photo: R.V Moorthy

Top seed and defending champion G. Sathiyan cruised past Sivananda Seshadri in the second round. Photo: R.V Moorthy

Seeded players enjoyed the luxury of a first-round bye but when they eventually made an appearance late on Friday, Abhishek Yadav and Raj Mondal, seeded four and eight, failed to survive the opening day’s action in the singles event of the Inter-institutional table tennis championship here.

After top seed and defending champion G. Sathiyan raced away to a 4-0 victory over Sivananda Seshadri to set up a clash with Railways’ spearhead Anirban Nandi for a place in the quarterfinals, expected results followed until Aman Balgu ended Mondal’s campaign in five sets.

Later, in a thrilling battle, Ravindra Kotian upstaged Abhishek Yadav in the best-of-seven that went the distance with the decider ending at 14-12.

The results:

Men singles (second round): G. Sathiyan bt Sivananda Seshadri 11-8, 11-5, 11-9, 11-5; Anirban Nandi bt Rohit Chakraborty 11-4, 6-11, 11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 11-4; A. Amalraj bt Sougata Sarkar11-5, 8-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-7; Aman Balgu bt Raj Mondal 11-5, 10-12, 11-4, 11-8, 12-10; Lalrin Puia bt Vivek Bhargava 11-7, 11-4, 12-14, 11-6, 11-6; Harmeet Desai bt R. Abhishek 11-5, 11-7, 11-4, 11-3; Anirban Ghosh bt S. Lakshminarayanan 11-6, 11-6, 11-6, 11-13, 11-3; Ravindra Kotian bt Abhishek Yadav 11-6, 5-11, 10-12, 11-9, 6-11, 13-11, 14-12; Devesh Karia bt Arjun Ghosh 11-3, 4-11, 11-7; 11-3, 4-11, 11-7; Souvik Roy bt Sushmit Sriram 11-4, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 6-11, 12-10; Jubin Kumar bt Pankaj Vishwakarma 11-7, 12-10, 11-3, 11-4; Sanil Shetty bt Noel Pinto 11-5, 11-4, 11-8, 11-9; Subhajit Saha bt Mohit Verma 11-6, 11-5, 14-12, 11-6; Sudhanshu Grover bt T. Nitin 13-11, 11-9, 11-13, 7-11, 11-5, 6-11, 11-8; Sourav Saha bt Shubham Ojha 11-4, 11-5, 11-5, 11-5; Soumyajit Ghosh bt Shreyal Telang 11-5, 9-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9.

First round: Seshadari bt Sanish Ambekar 11-5, 11-7, 11-5, 11-2; Chakraborty bt Sarthak Gandhi 9-11, 9-11, 11-8, 14-12, 11-6, 11-4; Nandi bt Harsh Sachanandani 8-11, 12-10, 12-10, 11-6, 11-3; Sarkar bt Omkar Torgalkar 11-9, 11-9, 11-6, 11-5; Amalraj bt Rajib Sarkar 12-10, 11-7, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4; Balgu bt Anirban Roychoudhary 15-13, 11-3, 11-9, 9-11, 7-11, 11-4; Bhargava bt Kartik Dogra 12-10, 11-5, 5-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-5; R. Abhishek bt Nishad Shah 11-7, 11-6, 11-7, 11-7; Desai bt Subhash Mani 11-6, 11-6, 13-11, 9-11, 11-6; Ghosh bt Soumyadeep Roy 7-11, 5-11, 11-9, 12-10, 11-9, 7-11, 11-6; Lakshminarayanan bt Siddhesh Pande 11-6, 13-11, 11-8, 11-7; Kotian bt Hardik Bhatt 11-8, 11-6, 11-7, 9-11, 12-10; Arjun Ghosh bt Birdie Boro 11-5, 11-7, 10-12, 11-8, 11-6; Souvik Roy bt Utkarsh Gupta 11-8, 11-5, 11-5, 11-9; Sushmit Sriram bt Chinmay Datar 8-11, 11-6, 7-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-2; Jubin bt Peeyush Prasad 12-10, 9-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-7; Vishwakarma bt Zubin Taraporwala 11-7, 16-14, 11-4, 11-9; Mohit bt Brupakhaya Saha 4-11, 12-10, 13-11, 11-13, 11-3, 11-9; Grover bt Sayan Paul Roy 13-11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-9; Nitin bt Sanmay Paranjape 11-6, 11-5; 9-11, 11-4, 11-5; Sourav Saha bt Jagdish Makwana 11-3, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6; Ojha bt E. Prabhakar 11-9, 11-13, 11-7, 13-11, 11-9; Telang bt R. Rajesh 11-9, 11-8, 11-1 (conceded).

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