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Champions off to a flying start

Principal Correspondent

ALAPPUZHA: A series of lopsided matches dominated the opening day of the 68th National sub-junior table tennis championship at the Sakthi Auditorium here on Sunday.

All the four defending champions — Petroleum Academy (boys), Tamil Nadu (girls) in the sub-juniors and North Bengal (boys) and Maharashtra `A' (girls) in cadets, posted wins in their group without dropping a match.

Host Kerala, with local boys S. Sunder and Vishnu Narayan sparkling, was also off to a flying start in the sub-junior boys section, blanking Punjab and Himachal Pradesh by an identical 3-0 margins.

The results (league):

Sub-juniors: Boys: Group `A': Petroleum Academy bt Pondicherry 3-0; MP bt Goa 3-0. Group `B': N. Bengal bt Haryana 3-0; Manipur bt Chattisgarh 3-0; N. Bengal bt Chattisgarh 3-0; Manipur bt Haryana 3-0. Group `C': TN bt UP 3-0; TN w/o Tripura; Maharashtra `B' bt UP 3-0. Group `D': WB bt Mizoram 3-0; Rajasthan bt Orissa 3-2. Group `E': Uttaranchal bt Chandigarh 3-1. Group `F': Karnataka bt Pondicherry 3-0; Kerala bt Punjab 3-0; Kerala bt HP 3-0. Group `G': Gujarat bt Meghalaya 3-0; AP bt Meghalaya 3-0; Gujarat bt Bihar 3-0. Group `H': Maharashtra `A' bt J&K 3-0; Assam bt Jharkhand 3-0.

Girls: Group `A': TN bt UP 3-0. Group `B': Maharashtra `A' bt Bihar 3-0; Assam bt Uttaranchal 3-0. Group `C': WB bt Mizoram 3-0; Kerala bt Punjab 3-2. Group `D': N. Bengal bt Haryana 3-0; Chandigarh bt Goa 3-1. Group `E': Karnataka bt HP 3-0; Chattisgarh bt Gujarat 3-2. Group `F': AP bt J&K 3-0; Orissa bt Manipur 3-0. Group `H': Maharashtra `B' w/o Meghalaya; Rajasthan bt Jharkhand 3-0.

Cadets: Boys: Group `A': N. Bengal bt Jharkhand 3-0; Maharashtra `B' bt Goa 3-0. Group `B': Petroleum Academy bt Mizoram 3-0. Group `C': WB bt Meghalaya 3-0; Haryana bt Pondicherry 3-0. Group `D': Punjab bt Chattisgarh 3-0. Group `E': Orissa bt Delhi 3-2. Group `F': Assam bt Manipur 3-0; Bihar bt AP 3-2. Group `G': Gujarat bt Kerala 3-2. Group `H': Chandigarh bt Uttaranchal 3-1.

Girls: Group `A': Maharashtra `A' bt HP 3-0. Group `B': TN bt Pondicherry 3-0. Group `C': WB bt Bihar 3-0. Group `F': AP bt Kerala 3-2; Uttaranchal bt Chattisgarh 3-0. Group `G': Sikkim bt Assam 3-2.