Chitrax & Frenaz crowned champs

Ahmedabad: Paddlers from Ahmedabad and Surat reigned supreme, winning individual titles across various categories, at the Gujarat State and Inter-District Table Tennis Championships 2022 in Adipur, Kutch that concluded on Sunday. .
Ahmedabad’s Chitrax Bhatt won a nail-biting final to be crowned the men’s champion, while Surat’s Frenaz Chipia continued her dominance over district mate Filzah Kadri by winning the women’s title.
Surat’s Aafrein Murad asserted her supremacy in the junior (U-19) girls’ singles, thrashing Bhavnagar’s Namna Jayswal . Surat’s Burhanuddin Malubhaiwala took the junior boys’ crown, defeating Aravalli’s Arman Shaikh.
Shaikh, however, managed to hold his nerve in a pulsating junior (U-17) boys’ final, edging Surat’s Aayush Tanna 4-3. Ahmedabad’s Pratha Pawar eased past Bhavnagar’s Riya Jayswal to emerge junior (U-17) girls’ champion.
Tanna, however, overcame the disappointment of losing the U-17 crown by clinching the sub-junior (U-15) boys’ singles title, defeating Aravalli’s Janmejay Patel in the final. Riya beat Mouboni Chatterjee of Ahmedabad in the sub-junior (U-15) girls’ title clash.
Samarth Shekhawat of Surat overcame an opening game lapse to be crowned the cadet (U-13) boys’ champion. He overwhelmed Ahmedabad’s Malav Panchal 08-11, 11-08, 13-11, 11-8, 13-11.
Mouboni didn’t return empty-handed, as she beat top seed Jiya Trivedi of Ahmedabad to pocket the cadet girls’ crown. The former emerged victorious 11-5, 11-4, 11-3, 11-7.