Sougata best

Calcutta: Sougata Sarkar emerged champion in the men’s category of the Calcutta Table tennis Championships organised by the WBTTA. He beat Soumyajit Sarkar 11-8, 5-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 in the final on Thursday. Sayantika Kundu won both the women’s and youth girls’ trophy. Anirban Sinha Roy and Souvik Kar won the youth boys’ and junior boys’ finals, respectively.

OTHER RESULTS (all finals) — Junior boys’: Souvik Kar bt Soumyadeep Biswas; Junior girls’: Jayita Pushilal bt Krittwika Sinha Roy; Sub-junior boys’: Sourav Ghosh bt Snehamoy Mallick; Sub-junior girls’: Camelia Sil bt Sutirtha Mukherjee; Cadet boys’: Shuvendu Shaw bt Snehomoy Mallick; Cadet girls: Sutirtha Mukherjee bt Manikankana Sengupta.

Basketball

Sixteen girls’ and 15 boys’ teams will participate in the 25th junior state basketball championship to be held at the Chhatra Samity from Friday.