Pranav, Abhinav scrape through
MUSCAT — Pranav Vinod and Abhinav Parasa struggled before making progress in the boys’ under-14 singles at the 2nd quarterly Junior Table Tennis Tournament organised by the Indian Social Club Muscat sponsored by New Makha Enterprises.
Pranav fought off the spirited challenge posed by Yash Tanna before rallying from a game down and edged through to win 9-11, 11-4, 7-11, 11-7, 11-9.
Yash paid dearly for his hasty play and squandering a healthy lead in two games. In the decider, Pranav fought back from 6-8 down to win the thrilling match. Abhinav Parasa also scored hard-fought 11-7, 14-16,
a 9-11, 11-3, 15-13 victory over Himesh Haridas to enter the second round.
In other matches of the boys’ under-14 singles, S Pranav defeated Nithin Chandrashekar 11-7, 11-5, 11-7, Avinash Menon scored an impressive 11-8, 11-4, 11-0 win over Hemil Ganatra, Subash Pillai emerged winner over G Akash with a 11-6, 11-8, 11-6 win, Armaan Sattikar made merry on his way to a 11-0, 11-2, 11-1 demolition of Rahul Rajan, Shounak Kelkar downed Alen Tom 11-8, 11-7, 11-5 and P Sai Sharan was given a tough time before securing a 12-10, 11-8, 11-8 win over Niranjan Raman.
Shounak
Kelkar
topped group-A in the under-10 singles round-robin phase with four victories. In his last league encounter, Shounak cakewalked to a 11-0, 11-2, 11-0 win over Sanshikha Mamotra, In other matches of the same group, MSSR Pradyumna defeated Maryam Zohair to nish second in his group.
In Group-B, Niranjan Raman defeated Manasir Srivastava 11-7, 11-3, 11-4 while Hariharan Subramanian defeated Arundhati Ramesh 11-6, 11-4, 11-6,. Hariharan also defeated Manasi 11-4, 11-6, 11-3.
Niranjan Raman scored a ne 11-9, 11-5, 11-8 win over Hariharan Subramanian to take the top spot in his group.