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MARGAO: Top seed Trisha Verlekar set up a title clash with Najida Shaikh in Sub Junior Girls final, at the All Goa Major Ranking table tennis tournament, organised by BPS Sports Club, Margao, at BPS Hall, on Tuesday.
Trisha is poised for a double crown as she also moved into the cadet girls final, where she will meet Leoma Fernandes. Ruchi Kirtani will have to face the challenge of Anvi Nadkarni in mini cadet girls final.
In the sub junior girls semi-finals, Trisha downed Urvi Surlakar 3-0 while Najida Shaikh had to face some resistance before prevailing to a 3-1 win over Trusha Hummanavar.
In the cadet girls semis, both the finalists hardly broke into a sweat while registering comfortable wins over their opponents. Galya Fernandes succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Trisha while Ruchi Kirtani too could not get going, losing 3-0 to Leoma Fernandes.
There was some consolation for Ruchi who reached the mini cadets girls finals with an easy 3-0 win over Bhuvi Karmali.
The other mini cadets semi-finals was a contrasting match which went the whole distance. Anvi Nadkarni came well from two sets to one down to edge out Pradnya Caro with a narrow 3-2 margin.
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Sudin Verenker, Vice President, Goa TT Association in the presence of Santosh George, President, BPS Sports Club, Vishnu Kolwalkar, Chief Referee and others.
