Chennai: Sixteen byes in the Sub-Junior Boys section and 24 in the Girls category are the real indicator of the number of players participating in the ongoing National Ranking (South Zone) Table Tennis Championships here at the Jawaharlal Nehru multi-purpose Indoor Stadium. This is by far the largest in a season in recent times.

With 40 boys and 32 girls qualifying from as many groups, the Stage II of the event has turned out to be draw of 64 in the two sections. This means, apart from the normal top eight players who only get byes, the benefit has been extended to the top 16 in both categories. In other words, these 16 players in the boys section and 24 in the girls category don’t make appearance until the second round.

Meanwhile, Manush Shah from Gujarat is the top-seeded player here in the Sub-Junior Boys section, Maharashtra A’s Ashwin Subramanian is behind him at second place. They are followed by the two Petroleum Sports Promotion Board Academy’s boys—Anukram Jain and Raegan Albuquerque—at No. 3 and 4.

There was hardly anything separating from these top four last year as their performances suggest. However, they cannot gloat over last year’s rankings or the seeding offered here except enjoying the byes they have received for they have to prove themselves yet again in a new season.

The good news for Tamil Nadu is that six of their boys have made it to the main draw along with West Bengal while the next best efforts have come from Maharashtra, North Bengal ad Telangana as four boys from each state have reached the second stage of the tournament.

The qualifiers from Tamil Nadu include Shriram Kannan, Sankket Mahipal, Sathyanarayaa Murali, Karthikeyan Solaiyan, Karan Jawahar and Aditya Srinivasan. The onus will be on these players to carry Tamil Nadu to the victory podium.

The interesting thing about North and West Bengal is that their boys, after spending a quiet year last season because of some suspensions, are ready for the challenge once again. West Bengal has returned six boys in the main draw—Akash Pal, Soumyodip Ghosh, Abir Roy, Snehasish Paul, Rohan Ghosh and Riswav Dey—and Rohan Ghosh is the best bet for the state and is expected to go the full distance.

But these two states cannot take things for granted as there seems to be a good competition coming from players of Karnataka, Maharashtra and, not to forget, Telangana.

As for the Junior Girls, Tamil Nadu can be proud of the fact that seven of them have qualified to make Stage II grade. They are Sharmitha Srinivasan, Kavyasree Baskar, T.R. Shruthi, Yazhini Madhurakavi, Yogashree Mohana Sundaram, Maria Ancy John and Esther Agnes Johndurai. But their job will be easy in the first round of the main draw as opponents from states like Maharashtra A and B, Telangana, North Bengal and West Bengal will be difficult to contend with.

The qualifiers in these Junior sections will play their first round matches of the main draw later tonight.

NATIONAL RANKING (SOUTH ZONE) TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015
Results:

11-Aug-2015
Sub-Junior Boys (1st round): Deepit Patil (Mah-A) bt Arka Kumar Gogoi (Asm) 7-11, 12-10, 11-8, 11-4, Shantesh Mapsekar (Goa) btVeereeshwar Gururaj(Ap)11-5,11-8,11-3, Rehman Mohd(Cbse)bt Aum Upadhyay(Guj)11-2,11-8,12-10, Niranjan Vijayan (Pon) w/o Krish Kalrani(Mhr-B)3-0, Akshat Sha (Ap) bt Abilash Raval (Guj) 11-9,11-7,13-15,13-11, Abhirup Paul Roy (Nb) bt Vikas Ravikumar 11-6,11-7,11-9, Akash Pal (Wb) bt Pratham Madlani (Guj) 11-5,8-11,11-4,8-11,11-3, Dev Shroff (Mhr-A) w/o Kabir Jain (Mp) 3-0, Smitrajsinh Gohil (Guj) bt Aravindan Arumugam (Pon) 11-6,11-6,11-3, Vishwas Gautam (Knt) bt Anshuman Agarwal (Goa) 7-11,11-9,7-11,12-10,11-4, Manav Mehta (Ttfi) bt Karthikeyan Srinivasan (Tn) 11-7,11-5,10-12,11-8, Marcose Gigu (Knt) bt Akash vardhan Janumala (Ap) 7-11,11-8,13-11,11-4, Nikhil Kumar (Pun) bt Srudeep Srutikar (Asm) 14-12,11-7,11-8, Dhairya Parmar (Guj) bt Harivignesh Umasankar (Tn) 11-9,11-6.10-12,9-11,11-5, Varun shanker Balusuri (Telg) bt Soumeet Deshpande (Mhr-B) 11-5,9-11,11-5,11-9, Harish Kusal (Tn) bt Shankab Baruah (Asm) 11-6,12-10,9-11,9-11,11-9, Dhanush Sai Venkata (Telg) bt Adithya Thantri (Knt) 11-8,11-4,11-8Mandar Joshi (Goa) bt Nehal Premkumar (Tn) 10-11,11-4,11-7,11-6, Vishwa Deenadayalan (Tn) bt Kesavan Kannan (Telg) 12-10,7-11,11-9,11-8, Abir Roy (Wb) bt Surya teja Telidevara (Ap) 11-4,11-5,11-5, Samarth Kurbikeri (Knt) bt Arnav Aggarwal (Chd) 10-12,11-6,11-8,11-8, Hardik Khurana (Dli) bt Gajendra singh Chouhan (Cg) 13-11,11-8,11-8, Harshil Kothari (Guj) bt Saheel suman Bhuyan (Ods) 11-7,7-11,11-5,11-7, Akshay Jayakrishnan (Tn) bt Razvi Syed Agha Hussain (Telg) 7-11,11-2,11-8,11-7, Karthik sreenivasa Sai Krishna (Telg) bt Chitrax Bhatt (Guj) 11-8,6-11,11-9,6-11,11-8, Nagesh Verenker (Goa) bt Neel Buddhdev (Guj) 11-4,11-8,5-11,15-13, Harsh Patel (Guj) bt Vardhan Janumala Adarsh (Ap) 11-9,7-11,11-4,11-7, advait A (Telg) bt Tejas (Dli) 11-6,11-7,11-6, Shayan sarkar (Nb) bt Deevit Yakkundi (Knt) 11-3,11-5,11-8, Sujan Bharadwaj (Knt) bt Ashwin Coumar K (Pon) 11-9,11-9,7-11,8-11,11-7, Manik singh ahluwalia (Dli) bt Prathmesh Parkar (Mhr-B) 11-4,9-11,11-8,11-9, Yash deshmukh (Mhr-A) bt Saarth Jhaveri (Guj) 11-7,11-7,11-9, Arijit Dey (Nb) bt Yeshasvin Ramasubramanyam (Telg) 11-5,14-12,12-10, Ramalinga Iyer (Mhr-B) bt Ansh Goyal (Mp) 11-8,11-7,8-11,9-11,11-7, Gourav Sharma (Nb) bt Thamizhselvan Dhandapani (Pon) 9-11,11-9,11-6,11-8, Karanpalsinh Jadeja (Guj) bt Deepanshu Garg (Hrn) 8-11,11-9,11-7,11-5, Snehasish Paul (Wb) bt Shriyash Bhosale (Mhr-A) 11-8,11-9,11-6, Joshi Roshan (Mp) bt Ritvik Nagle (Mhr-A) 11-8,7-11,14-12,11-8, Sathyanarayanan Murali (Tn) bt Subhra jyoti Paul (Nb) 12-10,11-6,14-12, Mainak das (Nb) bt Advaith Suresh (Krl) 11-7,13-11,11-9, Livingtonraj David (Tn) bt Vidit Desai (Guj) 11-3,11-6,9-11,11-7, Veera Sivarajan (Tn) w/o Jay Debey (Mp) 3-0, Rohon Ghosh (Wb) bt Annamalai V (Pon) 11-2,7-11,11-4,11-4, Tamal Ballav (Wb) bt Karthikeyan solaiyan (Tn) 4-11,9-11,11-3,11-6,12-10, Manik Dutta (Hrn) bt Mohammed Sahil (Krl) 11-7,11-6,11-5, Parth Katyal (Up) bt Aditya Varghese Joseph (Krl) 11-7,12-10,9-11,11-6, Riswav dey (Wb) bt Mainak Nistala (Mhr-B ) 6-11,11-7,11-9,11-6, Karan Jawahar (Tn) bt Vibhor Garg (Up) 12-10,11-8,12-10, Hamya Jyoti Dutta (Pspb –A) bt Krish Bajaj (Hrn) 11-3,12-10,11-7, Divyansh srivastava (Up) bt Dhruv Das (Mhr) 11-6,11-9,11-6, Adarsh Gopal (Mhr-B) bt Sankalp Das (Wb) 11-9,12-10,11-7, Aditya Srivasan (Tn) bt Sachin Kumar (Krl) 11-7,6-11,11-3,11-7, Aniket Sen Chowdhury ( Wb) bt Darsh Udawat (Raj) 11-6,11-5,11-6.

Sub-Junior Boys (2nd round): Deepit Patil (Mhr-A) bt John Zamliana (Pspb-A) 11-8,11-6,11-8, Sameer Pandey (Pspb-A) bt Veereeshwar Gururaj (Ap) 11-6,11-6,11-4, Shriram Kannan (Tn) bt Aum Upadhyay (Guj) 11-6,11-7,11-6, Chinmaya Kapil Somaiya (Pspb-A) bt Niranjan Vijayan (Pon) 11-7,11-7,11-8, Payas Jain (Dli) bt Ahshat Sha (Ap) 11-5,11-2,11-5, Gaurav Lohapatre (Mhr-B) bt Vikas Ravikumar (Tn) 5-11,11-9,11-13,11-4,12-10, Pratham Madlani (Guj) bt Shakreja Gourang (Hrn) 11-8,11-3,9-11,9-11,8-11, Satyam giri Gupta (Up) w/o Kabir Jain (Mp) 3-0, Siddhand Sur Roy (Nb) bt Smitrajsinh Gohil (Guj) 11-4,11-5,11-4, Sankket Mahipal (Tn) bt Vishwas Gautam (Knt) 11-7,12-10,11-9, Soham Pandya (Guj) bt Manav Mehta (Ttfi) 11-6,12-10,11-8, Jeho Himnakulhpuingheta (Pspb-A) bt Akash Vardhan Janumala (Ap) 11-9,11-6,11-6, Yashansh Malik (Dli) bt Srudeep Srutikar (Asm) 11-5,11-5,11-9, Soumyodip Ghosh (Wb) bt Dhairya Parmar (Guj) 11-7,15-13,11-7, Shubhadeep Das (Wb) bt Soumeet Deshpande (Mhr-B) 11-4,11-5,6-11,8-11,11-4, Inush Md (Krl) bt Md.zubay Baruah (Asm) 11-3,6-11,11-7,11-5, Adarsh Srivastava (Up) w/o Adithya Thantri 3-0, Alberto Lrruata (Pspb-A) bt Nehal Premkumar (Tn) 11-4,11-6,11-4, Kashish Bhargava (Dli) bt Vishwa Deenadayalan (Tn) 8-11,9-11,12-10,11-3,11-7, Abir Roy (Wb) bt Piyush Gowthaman Sagar (Tn) 11-3,13-11,10-12,11-4, Vishal Ananda Ram (Telg) bt Arnav Aggarwal (Chd) 11-6,9-11,12-14,11-5,11-2, Agniv Bhaskar Gohain (Asm) bt Hardik Khurana (Dli) 11-8,11-4,4-11,11-6, Harshil Kothari (Guj) bt Srikanth Thirumalai Kumara (Mhr-B) 11-3,11-9,11-6, Aryan Panse(Mhr-B) bt Akshay Jayakrishnan (Tn) 13-11,6-11,11-7,3-11,11-9, Chittrax Bhatt (Guj) bt Arya Shankar Mohaprashasta (Ods) 11-5,11-8,11-8, Dilip Giridharan (Knt) bt Neel Buddhdev (Guj) 11-8,11-9,11-8, Tejas Narang (Dli) bt Harsh Patel (Guj) 11-5,1-11,11-8,7-11,11-8, Advait A (Telg) bt Adarsh Vardhan Janumala (Ap) 11-6,11-7,11-8, Shayan Sarkar (Nb) bt Hardik Chadha(Dli) 11-6,11-8,11-7, Sujan Bharadwaj(Knt) bt Manik Singh Ahluwalia (Dli) 15-13,11-8,11-6, Prathmesh Parkar (Mhr-B) bt Ashwin Coumar K (Pon) 11-8,11-5,11-3, Saarth Jhaveri (Guj) bt Arijit Dey (Nb) 13-11,11-13,13-11,11-6, Yash Deshmukh (Mhr-A) bt Yeshasvin Ramasubramanyam (Telg) 11-7,11-8,9-11,11-3, Ramalingan Iyer (Mhr-B) bt Thamizhselvan Dhandapani (Pon) 9-11,11-7,11-4,11-9, Gourav Sharma (Nb) bt Ansh Goyal (Mp) 11-4,11-6,11-4, Snehasish Paul (Wb) bt Deepanshu Garg (Hrn) 11-9,11-4,11-4, Shriyash Bhosale (Mhr-A) bt Karanpalsinh Jadeja (Guj) 11-7,11-8,8-11,11-8, Sathyanarayanan Murali (Tn) bt Ritvik Nagle (Mhr-A) 11-4,11-3,7-11,14-12, Subhra Jyoti Paul (Nb) bt Roshan Joshi (Mp) 13-11,11-5,6-11,11-6, Livingtonraj David (Tn) bt Advaith Suresh (Krl) 11-7,11-4,11-5, Mainak Das (Nb) bt Vidit Desai (Guj) 11-3,11-1,11-6, Rohon Ghosh (Wb) w/o Jay Debey (Mp) 3-0, Veera Sivarajan (Tn) bt Annamalai V (Pon) 11-7,9-11,10-12,11-6,11-9, Manik Dutta (Hrn) bt Tamal Ballav (Wb) 11-1,7-11,10-12,11-9,11-8, Karthikeyan Solaiyan (Tn) bt Mohammed Sahil (Krl) 11-9,11-9,7-11,12-14,11-7, Parth Katyal (Up) bt Minak Nistala (Mhr-B) 12-10,9-11,11-6,11-9, Riswav Dey (Wb) bt Aditya Varghese Joseph (Krl) 11-7,11-6,11-1, Karan Jawahar (Tn) bt Krish Bajaj (Hrn) 12-10,6-11,11-7,11-4, Hamya jyoti Dutta (Pspb-A) bt Vibhar Garg (Up) 5-11,11-2,11-5,11-6, Adarsh Gopal (Mhr-B) bt DhruvDas (Up) 11-5,9-11,7-11,11-3,11-4, Divyansh Srivastava (Up) bt Sankalp Dass (Wb) 11-3, 11-6,11-5, aditya Srinivasan (Tn) bt Aniket Sen Chowdhury (Wb) 11-7,9-11,11-8,11-3, Sachin Kumar (Krl) bt Darsh Udawat (Raj) 11-5,12-10,11-4.