Defending champions Team ONGC won the men's team title after beating team IOCL 3-1 while IOCL, also the defending champions, won the women's team title with 3-2 win over Team OIL at the 41st PSPB Inter Unit table tennis tournament at the Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex, here on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Team ONGC clinched the Veterans team title by beating Team HPCL 3-0 in the tournament, hosted by EIL.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the men's team championship, ONGC began strongly when Harmeet Desai played quality table tennis to beat veteran Sharat Kamal from IOCL 3-1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
IOCL then pulled one match back when Manav Thakker beat reigning National champion G Sathiyan 3-0. However, ONGC won the next two matches when A Amalraj beat Priyanuj Bhattacharya 3-0 and G Sathiyan was able to find the depth to beat Sharat Kamal 3-1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The women's team championships were closely contested and saw some exciting games. In a close contest, Archana Kamath from IOCL held her nerve to beat veteran Mouma Das from OIL 3-2. Talented youngster Yashaswani Ghorpade then displayed her tremendous potential when she beat Krittwika Sinha Roy 3-1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Reeth Rishya then pulled IOCL ahead when she beat Trisha Gogoi 3-1. At this stage, it was critical how the next match between Archana Kamath and Yashaswani Ghorpade would go.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
When Archana won the first game 11-3, it seemed like it would be a one sided event, but then Yashaswani, displaying tremendous grit, won the next two games. Archana then won the next game 11-8, but in the deciding final game Yashaswani beat her 12-10 to level the tie between the two teams 2-2.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
It was then down to the final game in which Krittwika held her nerve to beat Mouma Das 3-0 to help IOCL retain the women's team title.<\/p>\r\n\r\n