PANAJI
Kewal Tamhankar, Utkarsha Shivani, Tanvesh Navelkar, Upendra Talavdekar and Simran Kubal emerged winners in the 2nd Purushottam V P Navelcar Memorial All Goa table tennis tournament organised by Panjim Table Tennis Club, at Indoor stadium, Campal.
Top seed Kewal registered a straight sets (13-11, 11-7, 11-6) win over Anish Verlekar to lift the Under-21 Boys trophy. In Under-21 Girls finals, top seed Utkarsha was made to work hard before prevailing for a 11-7, 11-7, 6-11, 11-8 win over Karishma D’ Mello. Tanvesh was in prime nick as he registered a comfortable 11-4, 11-4, 11-5 win over Amogh Bawachikar to win the Under-16 Boys title. The Under-12 Boys finals was won by Upendra who beat Advait Mudras 11-9, 11-8, 9-11, 11-4 in four tough sets. Simran emerged Girls Under-12 winner with an easy 11-8, 11-6, 11-2 win over Shivani Dhamapurkar.
Following semis and quarters prizes were awarded: Under-12 Girls “ Anushri Naik and Trisha Hamanavae (Semis), Divya Sen, Galya Fernandes, Stuti Shivani and Leoma Fernandes (Quarters); Under-12 Boys “ Priyam Redkar and Abeer Kamat (Semis), Rajat Dalal, Ayush Nadkarni, Azriel Fernandes and Meeth Pal (Quarters); Under-16 Boys “ Nathan Barua and Omar Baig (Semis), Ved Sardesai, Anish Verlekar, Shashank Pradhan and Aniket Naik (Quarters); Under-21 Girls - Sucheta Bansal and Akshata Nair (Semis), Aalya Arora, Apoorva Bandekar, Anushka Hamanavar and Simran Kubal (Quarters); Under-21 Boys “ Zubin Bocarro and Ashutosh Chari (Semis), Nigel Menezes, Nathan Barua, Tanvesh Navelkar and Ved Sardessai (Quarters). Rohan Fernandes emerged promising player of the tournament.
Gaurish Dhond, vice-president of Goa Table Tennis Association; Ajit Ghantker, former State TT player; Noel Estibeiro, TT coach; and Panjim TT Club office bearers Selvyn Godinho (secretary), Joel Andrade (treasurer), Sandeep Heble (vice-president), Ajay Naik (referee) and Ramesh Naik (member) attended the prize distribution function.
