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Monday, Jul 05, 2004

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Uday, Ranjitha bag titles

BANGALORE, JULY 4. True to form, the top two paddlers of the State, Uday S. Athreya and V. Ranjitha bagged the men's and women' singles titles respectively in the State-ranking table tennis championship conducted here at the KSRTC community hall by the Bangalore Urban District TT Association.

The two carved their title triumphs in contrasting fashion. Uday prevailed over G. Ravishankar 11-7 , 11-5, 11-9, 5-11, 8-11, 6-11, 11-9 in an absoring men's final. Uday raced through the first three games and seemed poised for a sweep before Ravishnakar hit back.

Bringing forth all his experience, the wily Canara Bank player, who blocked and drove on his forehand with power, levelled the issue at three games all in a scintillating manner. This set a cliff-hanger decider. But with his rival leading 10-9, Ravishankar, going full stretch for a service return, tumbled and lost the point and match.

In contrast, V. Ranjitha wrapped up a facile 11-8, 11-8, 11-5, 11-4 victory over S. Bhavana of Mysore and Ranjitha, earlier won the junior girls' singles title beating Shamika Desai 11-13, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6, 11-8 and thus completed a double.

The two main contenders, C.P. Karthik and H. Prathik waged another interesting tussle in the junior boys' singles final and Karthik prevailed in the tight match at 11-7, 11-6, 3-11, 7-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-9.

The other winners were A.R. Navneet (sub-junior boys' singles), Shamika Desai (sub-junior girls' singles), Chirag Kamath (non-medallist singles), Varun Iyer and Raghavendra (non-medallist doubles).

The results (all finals):

Men's singles: Uday S.Athreya bt G. Ravishankar 11-7, 11-5, 11-9, 5-11, 8-11, 6-11, 11-9.

Junior boys singles: C.P. Karthik bt H. Pratik 11-7, 11-6, 3-11, 7-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-9. Sub-junior boys' singles: A.R. Navneeth bt C. Sreekiran 11-8, 11-5, 11-7.

Non-medallist singles: Chirag Kamath bt Punit Mehta 11-8, 11-9, 11-9. Non-medfallist doubles: Varun Iyer/Raghavendra bt Puneet Mehta/Harsh Mehta 12-10, 7-11, 3-11, 11-6, 11-6.

Women's singles: V. Ranjitha bt S. Bhavana 11-8, 11-8, 11-5, 11-4. Junior girls' singles: V. Ranjitha bt Shamika V. Desai 11-13, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6, 11-8. Sub-Junior girls' singles: Shamika Desai bt V. Sahana 11-7, 11-8, 12-14, 11-7.

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