The selection held on November 27 from Trishuli to Kakani has picked up three male players -- Narayan Gopal Maharjan, Ajay Pandit Chhetri and Rajkumar Shrestha -- and Nirjala Shrestha as the female player. [break]
Three other male players -- Padam, Rajeev Rai and Mangal Lama -- were disqualified during the selection tournament. But according to Sanbenhang, the association later called and included Mangal in training for the SAG.
Coach Ajay Narshingh Rana denies that. “Mangal had better timing than the other two despite being disqualified, so he was called for the SAG training.”
Inter-television TT
KATHMANDU, Jan 24: Manohari Thapa and Sudarshan Rajbhandari of Nepal Television and Avishek Shakta and Amit Parajuli of Avenues Television advanced into the semifinals under men´s singles in the First Inter-television Table Tennis Tournament on Sunday.
Manohari eased past Suresh Manandhar of Image Channel and Sudarshan had a comfortable win over Nabin Sthapit of the same. Avishek defeated Anurup Shrestha of Kantipur TV and Amit saw off Shrawan Shrestha of the same.
Under women´s category, Manisha Gauchan and Deepa Adhikari of Avenues set up the title clash winning their respective semifinal matches. Manisha defeated Shanta Joshi of Nepal TV and Deepa defeated Anita Giri of same.
The tournament has been organized to mark the silver jubilee of Nepal TV.
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