Ranchi, Dec. 12 -- Several seeds, including top seed Ankur Bhattacharjee, crashed out early, leaving the first quarter of the men's singles draw wide open for unseeded contenders at the fifth UTT National Ranking Table Tennis Championships at the Harivansh Tana Bhagat Indoor Stadium here on Friday.
Second seed Payas Jain (Delhi) survived an early scare, rallying after losing the first game to beat Anirban Ghosh (RSPB) 3-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-7 and enter the quarterfinals.
In the pre-quarterfinals, Mohammed Ali (Telangana) edged past Shridhar Joushi (RSPB), while Sanil Shetty (PSPB) downed Jayabrata Bhattacharjee (RSPB).
Divyanshi Srivastava, Jeet Chandra, and Sudhanshu Grover notched solid wins, with H. Jeho (Mizoram) and SFR Snehit (IA&AD)...