Archana Kamath, representing the Airport Authority of India (AAI), continued her fine form on the national stage to clinch two titles at the 78th Junior and Youth National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships being held in Vadodara on Wednesday.
In junior girls singles (U-18) category final, Archana beat West Bengal’s Moumita Datta 4-0 for the title. In the semifinals the city girl had registered a 4-2 over Selena Deepti Selvakumar of Tamil Nadu and had beaten Ishita Gupta of Delhi in the quarterfinals 4-0.
Later, she combined with Sreeja Akula (AAI) to clinch the youth girls doubles title, defeating Moumita and Priyadarshini Das 3-0.
Meanwhile, there was more joy for Karnataka as the pair of Kushi V and Spoorthy MV won the bronze medal in the junior girls (U-18) doubles. They lost to Priyanka Pareek and Bhuvaneshwari Rathore of Rajasthan in the semis.
(Published 11 January 2017, 19:07 IST)