Delhi’s Yashansh Malik will take on Jeet Chandra of Haryana in the title round of the youth boys’ singles category in the National-ranking (East Zone) table tennis championships here .
In the semifinals on Wednesday, Yashansh defeated Deepit Rajesh Patil of Maharashtra 4-2 while Jeet enjoyed a walkover from Delhi’s Payas Jain, who left for Poland to participate in the World Cadet Challenge.
Yashansh downed Deepit in a tense game as both matched each other’s strokes. The latter made some critical errors on crucial points to help his Delhi opponent enter the final. Earlier, Deepit upset top-seed Manush Shah of Gujarat 4-3 in a gruelling quarterfinal.
In the youth girls’ section West Bengal’s Prapti Sen will meet Moumita Datta of Railways in the title clash. The semifinals saw top-seeded Prapti and Moumita posting identical 4-1 wins, the former over Kaushani Nath and the later over her colleague Shruti Amrute.
The results: Youth Boys: Semifinals: Yashansh Malik (Del) bt Deepit R. Patil (Mah) 11-6, 11-4, 8-11, 11-2, 9-11, 11-9; Jeet Chandra (Har) w/o Payas Jain (Del).
Quarterfinals : Deepit bt Manush Shah (Guj) 11-9, 11-5, 11-4, 9-11, 9-11, 2-11, 11-5; Yashansh bt Chinmaya Somaiya (Mah) 11-7, 6-11, 11-9, 3-11, 10-12, 11-9, 11-8; Payas bt Anukram Jain (Raj) 11-9, 11-8, 11-4, 11-5; Jeet bt Akash Pal (WB) 21-19, 11-9, 9-11, 11-9, 11-7.
Youth Girls: Semifinals: Moumita Datta (Rlys) bt Shruti Amrute (Rlys) 11-9, 15-13, 11-2, 8-11, 11-3; Prapti Sen (WB) bt Kaushani Nath (Rlys) 9-11, 11-4, 11-3, 11-7, 11-5.
Quarterfinals: Prapti bt Premangi Ghosh (Rlys) 13-11, 11-7, 12-10, 11-7; Kaushani bt Yashini Sivasankar (TN) 11-13, 11-7, 7-11, 6-11, 11-1, 11-8, 11-9; Moumita bt Surbhi Patwari (WB) 12-10, 11-2, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7; Shruti bt Selenadeepthi Selvakumar (TN) 11-9, 11-8, 9-11, 4-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-8.
