30-Nov-2009 462
Tousif Haque (Cuttack) and Samartha Prusty (Bhubaneswar) winning double crowns has become a practice in state table tennis championships of Orissa. This year`s edition of the Inter-District and State Championship, which concluded at Driems Sports Academy in Tangi (Cuttack) today, was no different.
The only difference was that Bhubaneswar girl Anjali Agarwal emerged as a new star of the sport in Orissa, bagging a ‘double’. Subhendu Dutta and Ashis Agarwal won the remaining two singles titles in the three-day championship.
State Sports Director P K Pradhan, Orissa Olympic Association secretary Ashirbad Behera and host DRIEMS chairman Pramod Chandra Rath gave away the trophies and cash prizes (Rs 20,000) in the presence of Orissa State Table Tennis Association president D P Bagchi and secretary R K Parida.
Results (All finals):
Cadet girls singles: Anjali Agrawal (Bbsr) bt Tanya gope (DPS) by points in league table.
Cadet boys’ singles: Subhendu Dutta (DPS) bt Amrit Chakraborty (Bbsr) 3-0 (11-9, 11-9, 11-6).
Sub-junior girls’ singles: Anjali Agrawal (Bbsr) bt Tanya Gope (DPS) 4-2 (11-4, 11-4, 11-9, 10-12, 5-11, 11-7).
Sub-junior boys singles: Ashis Agrawal (Bbsr) bt Bikash Singh (RSP) by points in league table.
Junior girls singles: Samartha Pursty (Bbsr) bt Ankita Kha (Khurdha) 4-1 (11-7, 9-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-9).
Junior boys singles: Asif Haque (Ctc) bt Saswat Samal (Khurdha) 4-0 (11-5, 11-5, 11-7, 11-6).
Youth boys singles: Tousif Haque (Ctc) bt Asif Haque (Ctc) 4-1 (11-7, 11-9, 9-11, 12-10, 11-5).
Women’s singles: Samartha Prusty bt Ankita Kha 3-0 (11-7, 12-10, 11-7).
Men’s singles: Tousif Haque (Ctc) bt Asif Haque (Ctc) 4-2 (11-13, 11-6, 11-7, 11-7, 8-11, 11-4).
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PHOTO: Singles title winners (L to R) Anjali Agarwal, Subhendu Dutta, Tousif Haque, Samartha Prusty, Ashis Agarwal and Asif Haque at the State Table Tennis Championship in Tangi on Nov 30, 2009.
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