State teams reach regu event finals
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 03 2023:
Manipur women's and men's teams progressed to the regu event quarterfinals of the 33rd Senior National Sepaktakraw Championship 2023 at Nagpur, Maharashtra on Monday.
The state women's team made a clean sheet of their six group matches on their way to the last eight.
They started off with a dominant 21-6, 21-1 win over Jharkhand and continued their peerless form beating Rajasthan 21-6, 21-3, Himachal Pradesh 21-3, 21-2, Uttarakhand 21-2, 21-3, Delhi 21-6, 21-8 and Bihar 21-3, 21-7 to emerge worthy Group A winners en route to the quarterfinals.
The men's team, on the other hand, won five of their six league Group A matches to enter the quarterfinals.
They started their campaign with an easy 21-4, 21-8 success against Jammu & Kashmir.
In their second match, Manipur got the better of Jharkhand 21-12, 21-9 and they went on to beat Haryana 21-9, 21-16, Karnataka 21-10, 21-7 and Andhra Pradesh 21-18, 21-6 before losing their sixth match (16-21, 21-9, 18-21) to Assam.