Mumbai lifted the A C Bali table tennis team championship for sports journalists by defeating Bangalore 2-1 in the final at the Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) premises in Panaji on Saturday.Mumbai's Gordon D'Costa and Abhijeet Kulkarni clinched the doubles title with a 11-6 11-7 victory over the Delhi pair of Rakesh Rao and Suresh Kaushik in the final.
Mumbai also won the ESPN Star penalty kicks competition beating Bangalore 4-1 in the summit clash.
Results:
Table tennis: Team Championship (final): Mumbai bt Banglore 2-1 (Gordon D'costa lost to R Kaushik 5-11, 6-11; Pradeep Vijaykar bt Mallikacharan 11-9 11-7; Gordon and Abhijeet bt Kaushik and Mallikacharan 11-6 11-5.
Doubles (final): Abhijeet and Gordon (Mumbai) bt Rakesh Rao and Suresh Kaushik (Delhi) 11-6 11-7.
Singles (semi-finals): Abhijeet Mum) bt Gordon (Mum) 11-5 11-4 11-9 11-6; R Kaushik (Banglore) bt Vijaykar (Mum) 11-8 11-9 9-11 11-8 9-11 8-11 11-9.
ESPN Star Penalty Kicks competition: Pre-quarter-finals: Bangalore Beat Assam 3-1; Tripura beat Hydrabad 4-0; Delhi beat Lucknow 4-2; Chennai beat Indore 3-2. Quarter finals: Banglore beat Nagpur 4-2; Kolkata beat Tripura 5-3; Delhi beat Bihar 3-2; Mumbai beat Chennai 5-3; Semi-finals: Banglore beat Kolkata 4-1; Mumbai beat Delhi 5-2; Final: Mumbai beat Banglore 4-1; 3rd place: Delhi beat kolkata 7-6.