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Sagorika in main draw

Principal Correspondent

— Photo: S. R. Raghunathan

GOOD SHOW: Tamil Nadu’s M. Anirudh, who beat Orissa’s Dishant Parida in the sub-junior boys’ round robin league in Chennai on Thursday.

CHENNAI: Sagorika Mukarjee of North Bengal qualified for the cadet girls’ main draw in the NLC-National sub-junior and cadet inter-state table tennis championships at the Nehru Indoor Stadium here on Thursday.

Sagorika, placed in Group I, defeated Indrakshi Das Gupta of Tripura 11-1, 11-2, 11-4 and Chhattisgarh’s Utsav Chandrel 11-3, 11-4, 11-3.

Sharasthi Gupta of Delhi, Raktima Paul (North Bengal), Anjali Agarwal (Orissa), Gia Ann George (Kerala) and Ajupi Phukan (Assam) qualified for the main draw of the cadet girls’ singles.

M. Anirudh of Tamil Nadu played well to defeat Ishan (Rajasthan) and Dishant Parida of Orissa. He has to win his third and final league match against Tarak Roy of Chandigarh to qualify for the sub-junior boys’ main draw.

The main draw begins on Friday.

The results (round robin league): Cadet girls: Group IV: Abinaya Ramesh (TN) bt Lalbiakengi (Miz) 3-0; Riyanshi Kumari (Bih) bt Lalbiakengi 3-1; Abinaya bt Lalbiakengi 3-0; Riyanshi Kumari bt Lalbiakengi 3-1; Group V: Priyadarshini Das (WB) bt Mahurima Sarkar (Tri) 3-0; Mahurima Sarkar bt Shriya Mahajan (J&K) 3-0; Priyardarshini bt Mahurima Sarkar 3-0; Mahurima bt Shriya 3-0; Group VII: A. Sreeja (AP) bt P. Pavithra (TN) 3-0; Pavithra bt Akankshya Bhuyan (Asm) bt Pavithra 3-1; Sreeja bt Pavithra 3-0; Pavithra bt Akankshya 3-1.