Top seed upset

In a major upset, girls’ top seed Grace Sari Ysidora of Indonesia was shown the door by eighth seeded Kyra Shroff of India 6-1,7-6 (7-4) in the quarter finals of the ONGC ITF Juniors tennis championships at the DKS complex on Wednesday. Kyra, now, meets seventh seed Rishika Sunkara from Delhi, India in the semi-finals. The other semi-final will be played between Indians Rashmi Teltumbde and Sweta Solanki.

National TT

The Bengal men’s and women’s teams for the 69th Senior National inter-state table tennis championship to be held in Siliguri from Sunday to February 2, were announced on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, according to a WBTTA release, Soumik Dey Sarkar and Kaushik Dey — who took part in the BTTA-organised state table tennis championships in November — apologised to the WBTTA and sought registration. The TTFI has disaffiliated the BTTA.

THE SQUAD — Men: Ranabir Das, Arup Basak, Arunava Ganguly, Subhadeep Das. Coach: Dipak Halder. Women: Soumi Mondal, Mousumi Paul, Susmita Roy, Pallavi Kundu, Anusree Saha, Sayantika Kundu. Coach: Mihir Ghosh.

Jhulan feted

Jhulan Goswami, adjudged ICC woman Cricketer of the Year in 2007, was presented an award of Rs 2 lakh by the West Bengal sports department at a function in the Netaji Indoor Stadium on Wednesday. Goswami was handed the cash and a diamond chain by former Sheriff Chuni Goswami. External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and state sports minister Subhas Chakraborty were also present.

TODAY IN SPORT

CRICKET: Day II of the CAB two-day league matches at various venues from 10am

TENNIS: ITF Junior meet at the DKS complex