Bengal, PSCB in semis

CHANDIGARH, NOV 21: Strong contenders West Bengal and Petroleum Sports Control Board Academy (PSCB `A') moved into the semi-finals of the...

CHANDIGARH, NOV 21: Strong contenders West Bengal and Petroleum Sports Control Board Academy (PSCB `A’) moved into the semi-finals of the boys team event in the ongoing 61st Stroh’s National and Inter-State table tennis championship today.

Defending champions West Bengal made short work of Maharashtra `B’ 3-0 while PSCB `A’ blanked Delhi 3-0.

Maharashtra `A’ however made amends to reach the last four stage by beating Gujarat 3-0.

Results (team championship)
Boys (QF): Bengal bt Maharashtra B 3-0 (Ranbir Das bt Nimith P 21-16, 21-13; Subham bt Santosh 21-17, 21-9; Anirban bt Manas 21-14, 21-4); PSCB `A’ bt Delhi 3-0 (Soumyadeep Roy bt Nitin Mahajan 21-8, 21-14; Suvaji Saha bt Abhishek Puri 21-11, 21-16; Anal Kashayap bt Ansh Adhlakha 21-15, 21-16); Maharashtra A bt Gujarat 3-0 (Aditya M bt Dhavait Panday 21-18, 21-11; Eric Fernandez bt Patik Mehta 21-15, 21-19; Ankur M bt Kedar Dave 21-10, 21-9); Tamil Nadu bt UP 3-0 (G Vinodh bt SS Thakur 21-17, 21-8; V Abhinav bt Ankur Kapoor 21-16,21-19; N Senthil bt Sameer K 21-17, 21-17).
Girls (QF): Bengal bt Karnataka 3-0 (Poulomi Ghatak bt S Prasad 21-8, 21-9; Mouma Das bt Madhuri KS 21-18, 21-13; Sushmadta Roy bt BM Ashwini 21-17, 19-21, 21-16); Tamil Nadu bt Delhi 3-0 (A Aprana bt Divya Jairam 21-13, 21-9; S Prasanna bt Pooja Malik 21-8, 21-15; K Ramya bt Anshu Sharma 21-11, 21-13).