Cadet girls enter semifinals at Thailand Open

It was a productive day for India at the SET Thailand Open junior table tennis tournament as its cadet girls entered the semifinals.
The junior girls too reached the last four where they went down to a superior Chinese Taipei 0-3.
Indian junior boys entered the finals of the Consolation competition after scoring a 3-0 win over mixed team drawn from Malaysia and India. The junior boys could only finish third in their group behind Thailand and Japan.
The junior girls finished second in the group to qualify for the semifinals. However, the team was pitted against the stronger Chinese Taipei side and it lost 0-3 in the semifinals. The Indian girls had beaten Malaysia and Thailand C side to come behind Thailand A.

India entered the semifinals in cadet girls team event after scoring a 3-1 win over Thailand B in the quarterfinals.
However, a tough task awaits Indian girls who run into top seed Hong Kong in the semifinal. India finished the group at the top winning all its matches in the group. India defeated Thailand C 3-1; Singapore 3-2 and Thailand A 3-0

The results
Junior boys (fifth place) India bt Malyasia-India 3-0 (Ulkarsh Gupta bt Lam Chee Yin 11-8 11-6, 11-7; Lalrin Puia bt Ong Cheong Sze 11-4, 11-6, 11-7; Sanish Ambedkar bt Sarthak Seth 11-4, 11-3, 11-7.
Junior girls (semifinals): Chinese Taipei bt India 3-0 (Lin Po Jusan bt Sreeja Akula 12-10,11-8, 11-5; Hsuan Chia Lin bt Shruti Amrute 11-6, 11-3, 11-6; Wen Ruei Ling bt Maria Rony 11-5, 13-11, 11-8).

Group: India bt Thailand C 3-1 (Sreeja Akula bt M. Phacharapon 11-5, 11-5, 5-11, 11-8; Shruthi Amrute lost to Mahawichian 11-7, 9-11, 11-9, 5-11, 4-11; Maria Rony bt Thitisuda Premsiri 12-10, 11-7, 11-1; Sreeja Akula bt M. Phacharapon 11-8, 11-8, 11-9); Thailand A bt India 3-0 (Orawan Paranang bt Sreeja Akula 7-11, 11-8, 11-4, 9-11; Tamolwan Khithera bt Shruti Amrute 11-4, 11-9, 11-7; Cathareeya Pougsri bt Maria Rony 6-11, 11-9, 11-3, 11-5)
Cadet girls (quarterfinal) : India bt Thaliand B 3-1 (Arachana Kamat bt Jinnipa Savetbut 11-4, 11-9, 11-9; Varuni Jaiswal lost to Monapsom Saritapirak 11-4, 6-11, 5-11, 10-12; Srusthi Halengadi bt Naja Mekamporu 11-4, 11-8, 13-11; Archana Kamat bt Monapsoru Saritapirak 11-9, 11-8, 11-9).