RAIA: After a day of intense action at the Panjim Gymkhana Angley’s Table Tennis Team Championship, which featured 20 teams battling it out, Hotel Virashree, Shantadurga Knight Riders, Peddem Champs, and GTTTC Gladiators topped their respective groups, setting the stage for an exciting quarter-finals line-up.
These group toppers will face the runners-up from other groups in the next round. The runners-up teams advancing to the quarter-finals are Super Smashers, BPS Star Contenders, BPS Mavericks, and Mapusa Smashers.
The championship organised by Panjim Gymkhana in collaboration with the Goa Table Tennis Association, follows a format inspired by the elite Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) Championship of the TTFI.
The quarter-finals match-ups are as follows: Hotel Virashree vs Mapusa Smashers; Shantadurga Knight Riders vs BPS Mavericks; Peddem Champs vs BPS Star Contenders and GTTTC Gladiators vs Super Smashers.
Notable performances of the day came from Ramkumar UN and Govindaraju Seetharam (Hotel Virashree), Nagesh Verenkar (Super Smashers), Rudra Ghosh and Munmun Kundu (Shantadurga Knight Riders), Pradnya Caro and Atharv Dhulakar (BPS Star Contenders), Rutuj Sonawane and Samaira Soares (Peddem Champs), Chandan Caro and Arvind Kumar (BPS Mavericks), Wesley Do Rosario and Aaron Farias (GTTTC Gladiators), and Prutha Parrikar and Jainam Shah who starred for their respective teams.
The concluding matches of the Angley’s Cup, annually held for close to six decades except for a few years hiatus, will be held on Sunday, June 9, at Panjim Gymkhana.
