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MAPUSA: Star studded JSA Communications were crowned winners of the 5th All India Invitational MSC Cup Table Tennis Team championship, which concluded at multipurpose stadium, Peddem.
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The JSA team, propelled by their star players Arjun Ghosh, Sourav Saha, Surojit Das and Moumita Datta won in an emphatic fashion, defeating Team AVSC 3-0 in the Open Team event.
Swarnedu Chaudhary, Ali MD, Arindam Debnath and Sai Prashant who had played brilliantly for Team AVSC in the lead up to the finals however found the going tough in the finals against the JSA line-up which had top national champions such as Sourav Saha and Arjun Ghosh.
BTTA paddlers lifted the Under 15 Team championship, registering a facile 3-0 win over Little Champs. Samaira Soares, Ayushi Godse and Tanishka Kalbhairav (National U11 Finalist) secured Gold for the winning team while Rishan Shaikh, Khushal Naik, Aaron Farias and Akshan Lawande who represented the runner up squad won Silver.
In the individual events, Arjun Ghosh & Sourav Saha defeated Moumita Datta & Surojit Das 7-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-4 to emerge victorious in Open Doubles.
Arjun had a memorable outing, adding the Open Singles glory to his tally with a fighting 8-11, 11-8, 13-11, 11-2, 11-9 win over Ali Mohammad in the final, securing triple glory in the process. Swarnendu C / Ali M and Kaustubh U / Jayesh K settled for bronze medals in the Open Doubles category.
In the Open Singles, losing semi-finalists Sourav Saha and Swarnendu Chowdhury secured third place finish.
The 5th edition of the MSC Cup was organised by Miramar Sports Club in collaboration with the Sports Authority of Goa.
MSC officials Joel Andrade ( President & CCP Councillor), Noel Estibeiro (Vice President), Myron Pereira (Treasurer), along with Kabir Pinto Makhija (CCP Councillor and Goa TT Association executive member), Daniel Pinto and Amey Lawande (Sports Promoters) graced the final.
