NAGPUR, July 16: Kunal Solanki of Western Railway caused the biggest upset in the 46th All- India Inter-Railway Table Tennis Championship, being played here at the YMCA Robertson hall, stunning second seed and former Inter-Railway champion Ganesh Kundu of Eastern Railway in the second round today.In another upset, Prasanjeet Sarkar of South-Eastern Railway shocked eighth seed Bona Thomas John of Southern Railway 21-19, 16-21, 21-18.
Kundu went down in straight games, 20-22, 19-21. In the women's section, Avanti Sinha (ER) sidelined Poorna Giridhar (SR) 21-16, 21-18 and Rani Chandrima (WR) routed Alpana Ghosh (Metro Railway) 21-12, 21-11.
RESULTS: MEN'S (second round): N R Shrinivasan (ICF) bt Tushar Kantidas (ER) 21-11, 21-12, Rahul Prakash (NR) bt Pradeep Samanta (ER) 21-19, 21-14, Nupur Santra (SER) bt Nishant Kulkarni (CR) 21-13, 17-21, 21-13, Rajesh Shelar (WR) bt Suresh Kumar (ICF) 21-13, 21-15, Amrish Chatterjee (SER) bt James Joseph (ICF) 21-15, 21-11, Nachiket Chawate (WR) bt AtinRastogi (NR) 18-21, 22-20, 21-13, Chirag Channa (WR) bt Jugo Rao (SR) 21-18, 21-14, Kishalya Basak (SER) bt Rahul Dutta (WR) 21-15, 21-14, Rohit Chaudhary (CR) bt M Thirunavukkarasu (ICF) 21-14, 21-12, Debbrata Sana (SER) bt Bimal Paul (NFR) 21-11, 21-13, Shivaji Dutta (ER) bt George Joseph (WR) 18-21, 21-14, 21-19, Prasannajeet Sarkar bt Bona Thomas John (SR) 21-19, 16-21, 21-18, Nilesh Vaid (CR) bt Souvik Basu Roy (ER) 21-15, 18-21, 21-15, Kaushik Das (SER) bt Amit Thanvi (NR) 21-8, 21-11, Kunal Solanki (WR) bt Ganesh Kundu (ER) 22-20, 21-19.
WOMEN'S (first round): Renuka Devi (SR) bt Monica Henry (NE) 21-10, 21-11, Moumita Dutta (SER) bt S Sen (NFR) 21-18, 22-20, Meenu Dhawan (ER) bt Prasanna Devi (SR) 21-18, 21-11, Shalmali Mhatre (WR) bt Prajeetha (SR) 21-15, 21-13, Radhika Ghatnekar (CR) bt Gayatri Dware (NFR) 21-16, 21-13, Sonali Bhattacharjee (Metro Railway) bt Mitali Dutta (NR) 22-20, 21-18, Shruti Kanade (CR) bt Sonia Deshpande (WR) 21-16, 22-20, Avanti Sinha (ER) bt Poorna Giridhar (SR)21-16, 21-18, Rani Chandrima (WR) bt Alpana Ghosh (Metro Railway) 21-12, 21-11.
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