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U Mumba TT secured the final semi-final spot with a 10-5 victory over the Dabang Delhi TTC in Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6.
Yashaswini Ghorpade won the final match of the day (Picture credit: UTT)
U Mumba TT bagged the fourth and final semi-final spot with a 10-5 victory over the Dabang Delhi TTC in the Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6 on Thursday. While the loss ended Delhi’s four-tie winning run, the Season 2 champions still finished top of the league table with 44 points.
Both sides wore black armbands and observed a minute’s silence before kick-off to pay respect to the victims of the Ahmedabad plane crash tragedy.
Lilian Bardet gave U Mumba TT the perfect start, beating Sathiyan Gnanasekaran 2-1 in the opening singles rubber.
After edging a close first game 11-10, Bardet dropped the second 4-11 but responded with an 11-4 victory over Sathiyan in the decider.
Bernadette Szocs followed it up with a 2-1 victory over Diya Chitale. The latter took the first game 11-3, but Szocs levelled with a narrow 11-10 Golden Point victory over the Indian and closed out the match 11-8.
The momentum carried into the mixed doubles, where Szocs partnered Akash Pal to defeat Izaac Quek and Diya in the opening game, confirming U Mumba’s place in the semifinals.
Delhi, however, bounced back, winning the remaining two games and the match.
Abhinandh PB added two more points for U Mumba with a 2-1 victory over Singapore’s Izaac Quek. Abhinandh, in his first appearance of the season, started strong, taking the first two games, before Izaac pulled one back with an 11-7 victory over the Indian, enough to take Delhi to the top of the table.
In the final rubber, Yashaswini Ghorpade beat her World Youth Championships 2023 teammate Suhana Saini 3-0, winning two tight games on Golden Point before closing the match 11-3.
Szocs picked up the double honours of the Foreign Player and Shot of the Tie, while Yashaswini was named the Indian Player of the Tie.
Delhi will now face the Jaipur Patriots in the first semi-final, while reigning champions Dempo Goa Challengers will take on U Mumba TT in the second. The winners of the respective ties will compete in the Grand Finale on June 15.
Final Scores
U Mumba TT 10-5 Dabang Delhi TTC
Lilian Bardet bt. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran 2-1 (11-10, 4-11, 11-4)
Bernadette Szocs bt. Diya Chitale 2-1 (3-11, 11-10, 11-8)
Akash Pal/Bernadette Szocs lost to Izaak Quek/Diya Chitale 1-2 (11-5, 7-11, 5-11)
Abhinandh PB bt. Izaac Quek 2-1 (11-4, 11-9, 7-11)
Yashaswini Ghorpade bt. Suhana Saini 3-0 (11-10, 11-10, 11-3)
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