November 19, 2011 6:36 PM

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Ankita Das enters Volkswagen World Jr TT quarterfinals

Ankita Das has entered the quarterfinals of the Volkswagen World Junior Table Tennis Championships. In the round of sixteen at Bahrain today, Ankita stunned higher-ranked Hsien-Tzu Cheng of Chinese Taipei 8-11, 15-13, 10-12, 11-8, 11-7, 11-4 in the girls category. The Indian is slated to meet World number 10 Chinese Ruochen Gu in the quarterfinals. On Friday, Ankita caused a major upset when she downed third-seed Romanian Bernadette Szocs 4-3 to make a strong impression at the world meet. In boys' singles, Sourav Saha, Soumyajit Ghosh and Harmeet Desai lost their respective matches.

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