Chandani Asher won the women's final, clawing back from a 1-2 deficit to defeat Deepali Zaveri 21-18, 10-21, 18-21, 21-15, 21-6. However, Chandani blew a 2-0 lead in the junior girls final that allowed Sherry Crawford to win a double (16-21, 16-21, 21-19, 15-21, 22-20). Sherry had won the sub-junior title earlier.

Eric Fernandes confirmed his status as the top-ranked junior in the absence of fancied Aditya Mahagaonkar to claim the boys title beating Kalpesh Mohite 21-15, 21-14, 18-21, 22-20.

Ramaswamy, who had to bear the brunt of Chawathe's attack in the first game, which resulted in a 17-21 loss.

However, Ramaswamy slowed down the game in the second, forcing Chawathe to jab and make errors. Then came his familiar rally. Down 16-19, Ramaswamy wonthe next five points to win the second game. After winning the third game, Ramaswamy faced a determined Chawathe in the fourth game.

Chawathe forced an 18-16 lead but Ramaswamy fought his way to take lead at 19-18. At 19-all, he hit a brilliant forehand topspin that gave him one match point. But Chawathe levelled the scores once again with a swift back-hand jab. After sharing two points each, Ramaswamy won the match on two errors to bring an end to a fine duel.

Chandani tried to defend too much after winning the first game and lost the second and third. When she play a bit more positive, it gave her results as she won the fourth game and then won 11 points consecutively in the decider as she moved from 6-4 to 17-4. Deepali's fight ended then and there.

Eric looked to have lost his concentration in the third game which he lost but he regained it on time to win the fourth game in extra points and claim his second title within a week. He had won the junior boys final in the state Ranking tournament atAnushakti Nagar on Saturday.

The girls final was exciting and it showed the spirit of Sherry Crawford. She fought back from the loss of the first two games to win the title. In the first two games, it as a battle of patience and it was won by Chandani. In her eagerness to attack, Sherry made several mistakes.

But a slight change in tactics turned the fortunes for her. Instead of attacking, she started pushing the ball and forced Chandani to attack paving way for more errors from the latter.

The decider was tight with the scores running close from 15 all onwards. Sherry had one match point but Chandani saved it only to lose the next two points for a 20-22 loss in the decider.

Yadav, Mamta triumph

Sagar Yadav of Mithibai and Mamta Prabhu of Mulund Commerce won the boys and girls singles titles in the Junior Collegiate Table Tennis championships at the University Pavilion here today.

Second seed Sagar defeated top seed Karan Kapoor 21-19, 21-11 while Mamta won 18-21, 21-19, 21-16 againstShriti Doshi of Podar. Shriti had knocked out top sed Janhavi Deshpande of Mulund Commerce in the semi-finals.

Vaze won the boys team championships beating KC 2-0 in the final while the strong Mulund Commerce trounced Mithibai by the same margin to claim the girls title.

RESULTS

Boys singles (final):

Sagar Yadav (Mithibai) bt Karan Kapoor (Jai Hind) 21-19, 21-11. Semis: Yadav bt V Srinivasan (A Energy) 21-12, 21-14; Kapoor bt Gunjan Wagle (Vaze) 21-16, 21-14.

Team championships (final):

Vaze bt KC College 2-0 (A Ganpatye bt A Khambatta 21-10, 24-22; G Wagle bt B Mistry 21-12, 29-27).

Girls singles (final:

Mamta Prabhu (Mulund Commerce) bt Shriti Doshi (Podar) 18-21, 21-19, 21-16. Semis:

Shriti bt Janhavi Deshpande (Mulund Commerce) 21-12, 21-12; Mamta bt Bindu Suvarna (Mithibai) 21-13, 21-13.

Team championships (final):

Mulund Commerce bt Mithibai 2-0 (J Deshpande bt B Suvarna 21-7, 21-9; M Prabhu bt S Shroff 21-6, 21-6).

Sujata, Nimkartop

Unseeded Niranjan Nimkar and second-seeded Sujata Hailinge won the men's and women's singles titles, repectively, in the first Dilip Babar-sponsored Thane District Ranking carrom tournament, organised by the Sainath Seva Mandal (Bhayander), today.

Sujata shocked top seed Shilpa Joshi, 25-12, 25-20 and Nimkar beat unseeded Shabbir Khan 25-8, 23-25, 25-3.

Other results:: Men's (semi-finals):

Niranjan Nimkar bt Sanjay Mande 25-1, 25-11; Shabbir Khan bt Priyang Vaidya 25-16, 25-17.

Women's (semi-finals):

Shilpa Joshi bt Minal Lele 11-25, 25-22, 25-24; Sujata Hailinge bt Sumedha Karkhanis 25-11, 24-25, 25-18.