Thane’s Deepit bags grand double
Thane’s Deepit Patil with some brilliant all-round play maintained his winning momentum and went on to complete a grand double winning the youth and Junior singles titles, in the Dr. Ramesh Prabhoo Memorial 82nd Maharashtra State Table Tennis Championship organised by The Suburban District Table Tennis Association and played at the Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul, Vile Parle, here on Wednesday.
Deepit who compact in both attack and defence controlled play against Mumbai City’s Tanmay Rane and romped to a fluent 11-5, 12-10, 11-13, 14-12, 12-14, 11-6 win in the youth final. Earlier on he quelled the aspirations of another Mumbai lad Aadil Anand of TST
Boys (Junior; Qfs): D Patil (THN) bt Neil Mule (PNA) 11-7, 11-9, 119, 11-4; Jash Modi (TSTTA) bt Amish Athavle (NDD) 11-7, 11-9, 13-11, 11-6; Aadil Anand (TSTTA) bt Kushal Chopda (NSK) 11-9, 1113, 12-10, 11-8, 11-4; H Malhotra (TSTTA) bt Swayam Ibraampurkar (TSTTA) 13-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-9. Youth: (Qfs): Chinmay Somaiya (TSTTA) bt Hrishikesh Malhotra (TSTTA) 11-9, 11-6, 11-9, 11-4; T Rane (Mumbai City) bt Aadil Anand (TSTTA) 11-5, 8-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-7; Reagan Albuquerque (TSTTA) bt Shivam Das (TSTTA) 11-8, 11-7, 10-12, 7-11, 11-7, 11-6; D Patil (THN) bt Ashwin Subramanian (TSTTA) 11-6, 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 11-6. Semi-finals: T Rane (Mumbai City) bt Chinmay Somaiya (TSTTA) 9-11, 11-8, 11-7, 511, 4-11, 11-8, 11-9; D Patil (THN) bt Reagan Albuquerque (TSTTA) 119, 9-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-8, 12-14, 12-10. Final: D Patil (THN) bt T Rane (Mumbai City) 11-5, 12-10, 11-13, 14-12, 12-14, 11-6.
TA by scripting a 11-13, 11-4, 11-7, 12-10, 9-11, 11-3 win to clinch the junior crown.
In the semi-finals, Tanmay after trailing 2-3 staged a solid fight back by winning the last two games to register a 911, 11-8, 11-7, 5-11, 4-11, 11-8, 119 win against TSTTA’s Chinmay Somaiya. Deepti produced another stellar performance to record a hardfought seven-game win against Mumbai’s Reagan Albuquerque of TSTTA pulling through by a 11-9, 9-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-8, 12-14, 12-10 scores.
In the Junior boys’ semi-finals, Deepit staved off a strong late fight from local challenger Jash Modi of TSTTA snatching a 11-4, 11-6, 11-3, 6-11, 7-11, 9-11, 11-9. In the second semi-final which was an all-TSTTA contest, Aadil got the better of Hrishikesh Malhotra rallying to a 5-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-8, 7-11, 11-8 victory.