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Cuttack, August 23: Ananya Basak of Khurda emerged champions in two different categories of the 23rd YGTTA All Orissa Open Table Tennis Championship which concluded at the Barabati Stadium here Sunday.
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Ananya took the top honours in the Junior girls’ and the women’s singles events. In the first segment, she thrashed Suryasmita Aparajita of Bhubaneswar 4-0 and in the second category she smacked Samartha Prusty of Bhubaneswar 4-1.
In the cadet girls’ segment, Sushree Patnaik of Khurda clinched the title after scraping past Anusweta Hembram of RSP 3-1. In the boys’ segment, Sahil Sunder Bhuyan of Cuttack drubbed Aniket Sahu of Cuttack 3-0 to hog the limelight.
In the sub-junior girls’ category, Payal Pani of Khurda edged past Saloni Patnaik of Bhubaneswaar 4-3 to emerge champion. In the boys’ segment, Arya Mahaprasastha of Cuttack overcame a tough fight from Sahil Sunder Bhuyan of the same town 4-3 to secure the first position.
In the junior boys segment, M Ishwar of Cuttack prevailed over Janmenjay Mohanty of RSP 4-1 to emerge champion. In the men’s singles category, Tausif Haque triumphed over Sagar Ghatge of AG Orissa 4-1 to bag the title.
In the State Inter-School Championship, ISPAT English Medium School , Rourkela and Loyala School, Bhubaneswar emerged champions in the senior boys’ and the girls’ team events respectively.
ISPAT blanked KIIT International School, Bhubaneswar 3-0, while Loyala scraped past DAV, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 3-1.
KIIT and Stewart School, Cuttack took the top honours in the junior boys’ and the girls’ team events respectively. KIIT prevailed over DPS Kalinga, Cuttack 3-0, while Stewart got the better of DAV Chandrasekharpur 3-1.
