Indore, Oct. 28 -- On the opening day of the third UTT National Ranking Table Tennis Championships at Abhay Prashal, the U-11 group phase produced a flurry of upsets, cleansweeps, and edge-of-seat deciders as 38 boys and 30 girls booked their main-draw berthshere today.
In the girls' section, Bengaluru's Banhijita Chakraborty survived one of the day's pulsating ties to top Group 8, shading Inaya of UP 3-2 (11-6, 9-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-4) after the UP paddler had herself won a five-game (8-11, 10-12, 11-7, 11-8, 11-8) thriller earlier.
Haryana's Phalgun Gupta showed late-game poise in Group 9, pipping Samanvi Jahagirdar of Karnataka 3-2 (11-6, 11-5, 7-11, 10-12, 11-4) to clinch first place.
Maharashtra's Sharanya Patwardhan delivered a stat...