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The Hindu
The Hindu
Sport
K. Keerthivasan

PSPB teams reign supreme

PSPB G Sathiyan Diya Chitale Swastika Ghosh Archana Kamath Harmeet Desai Manav Thakkar Manika Batra Maharashtra

There wasn’t any doubt about the class of the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) teams in the senior Nationals and inter-State table tennis championships here, but only about the margin of victory in the summit clash.

The men’s team retained the title (25th overall) while its women’s (16th) regained the crown with identical 3-0 victories over Maharashtra-A teams.

The Maharashtra women’s team, it was believed, would give PSPB a tough fight, but it turned out to be completely one-sided. Moreover, PSPB hadn’t won the title in the last two editions (2018 & 2019), finishing runner-up and third respectively

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