PANJIM: Hotel Manoshanti defeated Panjim Table Tennis Club 3-0 to sail into the semis, in the Men’s Team Championship event in the third Invitational Table Tennis Championship organised by Miramar Sports Club, at Indoor Stadium, Campal, on Friday.
In the Super 8 League stage of the championship featuring several outstation players and teams, Anurag Gote representing Manoshanti was given a scare by Ajit Ghantker before prevailing to a 3- 1 (12-10, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9) win.
In the second singles, Shubhankar Ranade was in fine form against Noel Noronha who he defeated with a 3-0 (11-9, 11-4, 11-8) score line.
In the doubles that followed, Shubhankar Renavikar / Anurag Gote were stretched by Panjim TT Club’s Noel Noronha / Kewal Tamhankar who took one set and all but clinched another one.
However, the outstation pair representing Manoshanti who were down in the fourth set came back strongly to win 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 12-10 and seal the tie in favour of Manoshanti.
The other Super 8 match between two other top teams, BPS Sports Club and Verekers, went down to the wire with title favourites BPS prevailing to a hard fought 3-2 win.
