Adheena K Latheef, Bose claim state TT singles titles
Adheena K. Latheef of Thiruvananthapuram and Soumyajeet Bose of Alappuzha had bagged the women's and men's singles titles of state senior inter-district table tennis championship at the YMCA in Alappuzha.
In the women's singles final, Adheena defeated Kozhikode's Anekha K. 4-1 while Bose drubbed teammate Soham Bhattacharya 4-1 for the men's title. Bose and Bhattacharya, however, combined for the men's doubles title defeating Thiruvananthapuram's Ranjith Benny and Senthil Kumar 3-1.
Adheena bagged her second gold partnering Bindu M.S. in the women's doubles title match, in which the Thiruvananthapuram duo blanked Kozhikode's Anekha and Ankitha 3-0.
Thiruvananthapuram reigned supreme in the men and women team championships. In the men's final, the team from the capital defeated hosts Alappuzha 3-1 while Kozhikode fell 0-3 in the women's event.
Kozhikode avenged their loss by taking the youth girls' team championship with a hard fought 3-2 win over Thiruvananthapuram and the youth boys' team championship title went for Alappuzha that drubbed Palakkad 3-0.