Oman Daily Observer

Pranav, Abhinav scrape through

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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.

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