Ahmedabad’s Arya Kataria and Pratha Pawar won in the Cadet categories at the 2nd Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament 2021 (Phase I) and Surat’s Vivaan Dave and Krisha Patel won in the Hopes categories at the Gujarat State Table Tennis Championships 2021 (Hopes U-11)
Top seed Vivaan defended his Hopes Boys’ (U-11) title with an 11-6, 11-5, 11-6, 5-11, 12-10 win over seventh Parv Vyas of Ahmedabad.
Vivaan’s teammate and top seed Krisha also retained her Hopes Girls’ (U-11) title with a 11-3, 11-6, 11-4, 11-3 win over teammate and sixth seed Daniya Godil at the Nagar Palika Sports Complex Indoor Stadium.
Meanwhile, top seed Arya ended third seed Sujal Kukadiya’s hopes of winning the Cadet Boys’ (U-13) title for the second successive time with an 11-9, 11-8, 11-7, 11-7 win. Incidentally, Bhavnagar’s Sujal had won the title at the 1st Gujarat State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament 2021 that was held at Modasa in September.
Top seed Pratha shrugged off her Sub Junior Girls’ (U-15) final loss on Saturday to defend her Cadet Girls’ (U-13) title with an 11-7, 11-6, 11-3, 11-3 win over teammate and second seed Hiya Singh.
Vivaan settled for the third place finish with a 5-11, 11-9, 11-9, 12-10 win over Abhilaksh.
In the all-Ahmedabad Cadet Girls’ semis, Hiya edged out third seed Jiya Trivedi 11-9, 8-11, 11-4, 3-11, 11-4 while Pratha beat Moubini Chatterjee 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 12-10
Meanwhile, in the Hopes Boys’ (U-11) semis, Vivaan breezed past fourth seed Dwij Hirani of Ahmedabad 11-1, 11-4, 11-2 while Parv edged out teammate and sixth seed Jenil Patel 11-5, 11-9, 7-11, 11-2
Jenil took third place with an 11-2, 11-3, 15-13 win over teammate Dwij Hirani.