Mumbai’s Raegan Albuquerque, who represented Maharashtra at the 2nd National Ranking Table Tennis Championship at Panchakula, gave a splendid performance in the Men’s Singles event. Raegan Knocked out Two Players who are presently members of Indian TT team, on his way to final. Raegan first beat Payas Jain 3-2 and then knocked out Manav Thakkar 4-2 in a thrilling semi final match.
Raegan, Divya and Divyanshi pose with their medals and trophies in the company of their Coaches.
In the pulsating Men’s singles final match against another India player Ankur Bhattacharjee, Raegan once again displayed his skills with superb control over the ball, during long rallies. He, however lost 3-4, in this seven games hard fought battle. With this performance, he has certainly come into reckoning for his place in Indian Men’s TT team.
Raegan Albuquerque
Diya Chitale (RBI) and Divyanshi Bhowmick from Mumbai , won their respective events of Women’s Singles and Girls U-19 in this championship. Both of them seemed to be in good form, while overcoming their same opponent Syndrela Das from West Bengal. Syndrela had reached the finals of Girls U-19 as well as Women’s singles . Another promising Junior Aarya Redkar ( PSPBA) from Mumbai bagged a Silver medal in the Girls U-15 event.
Swara Karmarkar from Maharashtra, who won a Bronze medal in the Girls U-17 Singles in this championship, gave a big scare to present India team Player Sutirtha Mukherjee in the Women’s singles event, before going down fighting 2-3 in this five games battle in the main draw round.
There were many other players from Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra, who did well in their repective events to reach last four and last eight stage. Prominent among them were Swastika Ghosh, Prateek Tulsiani, Shouren Soman, Ananya Chande, Naisha Rewaskar, Riana Bhuta,Param Bhiwandkar, and Myraa Sangelkar.