Maharashtra A and Uttar Pradesh defeated Goa and Madhya Pradesh respectively to enter the sub-junior girls quarterfinals of the 76th Cadet and Sub-Junior National Table Tennis Championships at Cherukuri Convention Centre here today.
Other quarterfinal winners are Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Telangana, Delhi, Karnataka and West Bengal.
The semifinals and finals are slated for tomorrow.
While UP tamed MP 3-2 in the top half, Maharashtra A won against Goa with the same margin in the bottom.
Madhya Pradesh played well but in end it was UP that emerged as winner, thanks to Anusha Kutumbale. She won both her singles--first against MP's Suhana Narjinary by 3-2 and against Saundarya Pathak (3-1).
Kutumbale and her partner Khushi Jain, however, lost their doubles, which pushed the match down to the wire.
But for these two matches, the other pre-quarterfinals were more or less one-sided with the fancied teams making the grade.
In Cadet Girls, Assam entered quarterfinals by upsetting Maharashtra B 3-1 in pre-quarterfinals.
Trisha Gogoi, who did the star-turn for Assam, won both her singles and then combined with Abrita Bhuyan to clinch the doubles.
For Maharashtra A, only Kheya Shah was able to win her singles against Abrita 7-11, 11-6, 11-7, 14-12.
Meanwhile, Trisha, who had submitted two birth certificates, was penalised.
"This girl had registered with the TTFI with two birth certificates. As a policy decision and as per our guidelines, she has to be instantly penalised. That's what we have done in this case," said Competition Manager Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer.
Other teams that went through were Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra A, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Out of all pre-quarterfinals in the Cadet Boys' section, the one between Telangana and North Bengal went the full distance with the former winning the match 3-2, thanks to A Advait's fine performance in the decider.
