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Tousif Haque of Cuttack retained the men`s singles title in the Pine Cask Inter-District and State Table Tennis Championship at the Unit-I Indoor Hall in Bhubaneswar today.
Tousif also bagged the men`s doubles title to complete a `double`. The Haque family asserted their supremacy in the championship as Tousif`s younger brother Asif too bagged a `double` by winning the sub-junior and junior boys` singles titles.
Local paddler Samartha Prusty became the third player to claim double crowns, emerging champion in sub-junior and junior girls` singles events.
Samartha`s senior citymate Soumya Gayatri Tripathy returned to form by securing the women`s singles title.
State Sports Director N P Das and Pine Cask CMD Harsha Bardhan Lal gave away the prizes at the closing function.
Results (all finals):
Cadet boys singles: Pranat Sachin bt Ajitabh Kalta 13-11, 11-6, 11-6.
Cadet girls singles: Anjali Agarwal bt Bidisha Patnaik for title in round robin league.
Sub-junior boys singles: Asif Haque bt Pranat Sachin 11-4, 11-9, 11-9, 11-9.
Sub-junior girls singles: Samartha Prusty bt Soumya Mishra 11-7, 11-9, 11-6, 11-8.
Junior boys singles: Asif Haque bt Samarendra Lala 11-3, 8-11, 11-7, 11-9, 9-11, 11-3.
Junior girls singles: Samartha Prusty bt Sunita Si for the title in round robin league.
Women`s singles: Soumya Gayatri Tripathy bt Sunita Si 11-8, 10-12, 4-11, 10-12, 11-4, 11-6, 11-7.
Men`s singles: Tousif Haque bt D Debadutta Mohanty 12-10, 11-5, 11-6, 11-7.
Men`s doubles: Tousif Haque-Saswat Samal bt Tohid Haque-Md Azhar 11-2, 11-6, 11-2.
