Maanay lifts men singles, Ragini lifts women singles finals

Winners displaying trophies while posing with dignitaries at MA Stadium Jammu on Friday.
Winners displaying trophies while posing with dignitaries at MA Stadium Jammu on Friday.

Police Open TT C’ship

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

JAMMU, Apr 8: Maanay Mansotra defeated Akash Sharma by 3-1 in the finals of the men’s singles, whereas Ragini Gupta emerged winner in women’s final defeating Mishti Aggarwal by 3 games to 1 in the Police Open Table Tennis Championship, played at Indoor Complex MA Stadium, here today.
Earlier, in the men’s semi-finals Akash held his nerve against Akhilesh and finally went on to win by 3-1. In the other semi-finals, Maanay trounced Asad by 3-0.
SSP Chandan Kohli was the chief guest of the event, who witnessed the final match and distributed the prizes amongst the winners. The chief guest also congratulated the organisers for a successful tournament during these challenging pandemic times and hailed the sportsman spirit and the efforts put in by the participants. He assured the association of any help whatsoever for up lifting the game of Table Tennis in the UT.
Kulbir Handa (SP Jammu North) and Swati Sharma, DySP (Headquarter) were the guests of honour.
In cadet boys final, Ayaan beat Pranit by 3-1, while in cadet girls final, Yasha trounced Sneha by 3-1 and in sub-junior boys final, Rudraksh defeated Gurshan by 3-1, besides in sub junior girls final, Mishti beat Niharika by 3-0.
In junior (under-19) boys final, Maanay Mansotra beat Akhilesh by 3-1, while in men’s final, Maanay Mansotra trounced Akash Sharma by 3-1 and in women’s final, Ragini Gupta beat Mishti by 3-1, whereas in veteran men’s final, Mahesh Sharma defeated Gourav by 3-1.
The tournament was organised by the Jammu District Police department under the ‘Civic Action Programme’ in collaboration with J&K sports council and J&K Table Tennis Association.
Prominent persons including Satbir Singh, Rajan Sharma, IP Singh, Satish Gupta, Ajay Sharma, Ashok Sing (Divisional Sports Officer), Saleem Bandey (Secretary Poonch District TT Association), Dr Ruby, Dr Ratnakar Sharma, Sanjay Gupta, Rajan Sharma, Vasu Dewan, Narinder Singh and many others were present during event.