Divyansh shines in three categories

LUCKNOW : Lucknow’s Divyansh Srivastava hogged the limelight in the 66th UP State and Inter Zonal Table Tennis Championship at Agra on Monday, making it to the quarterfinals of the men’s singles, besides entering semi-finals of both youth boys and sub-junior boys categories.

Divyansh outplayed citymate Adarsh Srivastava 11-9, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6 in a pre-quarterfinal tie of the men’s singles. A trainee of Yogendra Agarwal at the Northern railway TT academy here, Divyansh had to struggle a bit before beating local challenger Hardik Paliwal 11-9, 9-11, 11-7, 5-1, 11-8 in the youth quarterfinals, but in the sub-junior quarters, he defeated Daksh Tyagi of Ghaziabada 11-2, 12-10, 11-7 in straight games.

RESULTS Men’s (pre-quarters):

Abhinav Belwal (Gzb) bt Vaibhav Kumar (Mbd) 11-3, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, Sobrat Raj Verma (Agr) bt Ujjwal Roy (Prg) 11-6, 12-10, 11-7, 11-8, Ankush Kapoor (Mbd) bt Soorav Poddan (Agr) 6-11, 7-11, 15-13, 11-9, 11-7, 11-13, 11-4, Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Agr) bt Satyam Mishra (Lko) 10-12, 11-8, 12-10, 11-6, 12-10, Divyansh Srivastav (Lko) beat Adarsh Srivastav (Lko) 11-9, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6, Sarth Mishra (Gzb) bt Akash Dwivedi (Lko) 11-8, 11-6, 12-14, 11-3, 11-6, Parth Mishra (Gzb) beat Ansh Sabarwal (Sre) 9-11, 11-7, 13-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-4, Vibhor Garg (Gzb) beat Rahul Singh (Prg) 11-6, 11-7, 13-11, 11-9;

Sub-junior boys (quarterfinals):

Sarth Mishra (Gzb) bt Avi PAl (Prg) 11-9, 13-11, 10-12, 8-11, 11-4, Abhiveer Nanda (Gzb) bt Archit Jain (Gzb) 11-9, 12-14, 11-13, 11-5, 11-8, Divyansh Srivastav (Lko) bt Daksh Tyagi (Gzb) 11-2, 12-10, 11-7, Shivam Chandra (Gzb) bt Akshat Agarwal (Knp) 11-9, 11-7, 11-8;

Youth boys (quarterfinals):

Vibhor Garg (Gzb) bt Madhav Bhatiya (Gbn) 9-11, 11-9, 15-13, 11-3, Ansh Sabarwal (Sre) bt Parth Mishra (Gzb) 3-11, 11-5, 8-11, 11-5, 11-3, Divyansh Srivastav (Lko) bt Hardik Paliwal (Agr) 11-9, 9-11, 11-7, 5-11, 11-8, Shivam Chandra (Gzb) bt Akash Dwivedi (Lko) 9-11, 6-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-6.;

Cadet boys (quarterfinals):

Umer Khan (Agr) bt Darsh Srivastav (Lko) 9-11, 11-8, 10-12, 11-9, 12-10, Akshit Bhatia (Gzb) bt Parth Prabhakar (Vns) 11-3, 13-11, 13-11, Arnav Panwar (Gzb) bt Aryan Arora (Knp) 19-17, 13-15, 13-11, 11-4, Aditya Chand Raja (Gzb) bt Atharv Srivastav (Prg) 11-9, 14-12, 11-9.