Bad day for seeds

Shibaji Dutta upset fourth seed Arup Basak while Anal Kashyap overcame sixth seed Sourav Chakraborty in the men?s quarter finals of the National Ranking Table Tennis Championship (East Zone) at SAI on Wednesday. In women?s action, top seed Poulami Ghatak lost to Soumi Mondal. Fourth seed Mantu Ghosh also crashed out after losing to J Swarna.

OTHER WINNERS (all quarters)

Men: Soumya Deep Roy, Subhajit Saha; Women: K. Shamini, Mouma Das; Junior boys: Mohit Verma, Aman Balgu, Devesh Karia, R.S. Raja; Junior girls: M. Satyabhama, Prajakta Tipale, Pallavi Kundu, Divya Deshpande; Sub-jr boys: Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai, G. Sathiyan, Mohit Verma; Sub-jr girls: Ankita Das, S. Sahana, Shruti Talnikar, Samayeta Mondal.

Floodlit tennis

Farid Alam, Harshavardhan Thirani, D. Viswakarma, Ashay Asok and Arkoprovo Rakshit had it easy in the boys? under-18 category of the Floodlit Tennis meet at Saturday Club. All beat their opponents 8-0.

OTHER WINNERS

GIRLS ? U-18: Rohini Das, Mohana Sarkar, Richa Valechha. U-14: Amrita Mukherjee, Mohana Sarkar, Mandavi Mullick, Soukeya Pandey.

BOYS ? U-18: Ayan Dasgupta, Rohan Roy, Rohit Kumar, Aritra Chowdhury.

State billiards

Shakil Ahmed will meet Aditya Goenka in the final of the State Senior Billiards meet. In the semi-finals on Wednesday, Shakil beat Akram Khan 692-658, while Aditya overcame Debasish Mukherjee 854-558.

Basketball

Joseph Gomes and Mohua Pal will lead the state men?s and women?s teams in the East Zone Basketball Championships to be held in Cuttack from Thursday.

TEAMS

MEN: Joseph Gomes (capt.), Amalendu Singh, Suhas Bhattacharjee, Amar Swarnakar, Varun Pillai, Amlan Kusum Mondal, Raja Mondal, Debasish Saha, Utpal Dutta, Julfikar Alam, Ambarish Pal, Amitava Mukherjee. Coach: Netai Banerjee.

Women: Mohua Pal (captain), Mandira Oraon, Priyanka Kumari, Rakhi Bose, Pausali Dutta, Sampurna Chowdhury, Atreyee Nandi, Rima Mondal, Sushmita Laha, Keya Pal, Jaya Mondal, Kalpana Bera. Coach: Surojit Chatterjee.

Junior cricket

Howrah Union CCC defeated Shilpasree CCC by 63 runs in the CAB Pepsi junior meet.

BRIEF SCORES: Howrah Union CCC 173 (Siddique Sher Khan 66). Shilpasree CCC 110 (Sayem Arif 6/31). Howrah won by 63 runs.

TODAY IN SPORT

BILLIARDS: Senior state meet final at BRC from 3 pm.

FOOTBALL: IFA Shield semi-final: East Bengal vs Ever-Ready (Salt Lake Stadium, 5.45 pm).

GOLF: Hero Honda Open East; Day II action at RCGC from 7.30 am.

TABLE TENNIS: National ranking meet at SAI; Semis from 9 am and finals from 2 pm.

TENNIS: Floodlit tennis at Saturday Club