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All the quarterfinal matches are slated to be played  later tonight. <\/p>\n<p>In the youth boys section, there were no  surprises as holders Tamil Nadu mowed down Assam 3-0, Delhi beat Uttar  Pradesh 3-0, North Bengal downed Chattisgarh 3-0, Maharashtra A beat  Haryana 3-0, PSPB accounted for Orissa 3-0, Gujarat defeated Punjab 3-0  and Karnataka overcame Maharashtra B 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>As for the youth girls,  Kerala took a game off holders Maharashtra A despite the latter having  Mallika Bhandarkar, India No. 3 in their ranks. In fact, it was she who  had to bail out her team, winning both her singles. Madhya Pradesh too  managed to push Andhra Pradesh a little bit but the latter won 3-1. <\/p>\n<p>In  other pre-quarterfinal matches, Tamil Nadu beat Pondicherry 3-0, West  Bengal downed\u00a0 Assam 3-0, Gujarat defeated Orissa 3-0, Maharashtra B  blanked out Punjab 3-0, North Bengal scored a 3-0 win over Goa and PSPB  downed Delhi 3-0. <\/p>\n<p>In junior boys, holders PSPB-A blanked out  Orisssa 3-0, Maharashtra A beat Karnataka 3-0, Gujarat accounted for  Maharashtra B 3-0, West Bengal downed Goa 3-0, North Bengal defeated  Andhra Pradesh 3-0, Rajasthan overcame Uttar Pradesh 3-1, Delhi beat  Punjab 3-0 and Tamil Nadu managed a 3-1 verdict against Assam.<\/p>\n<p>In  junior girls, Gujarat struggle to go past Jharkhand 3-2, while Punjab  managed to take a game off holders Andhra, who won 3-1, hosts North  Bengal accounted for Maharashtra B 3-0, West Bengal downed Kerala 3-0,  Delhi won over Karnataka 3-1, Tamil Nadu beat Madhya Pradesh 3-0,  Maharashtra A defeated Orissa 3-0 and PSPB-A accounted for Uttar Pradesh  3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Siliguri: <\/strong>All big teams, including those favoured to win  titles, made short work of their opponents in the team events of the  Indian Oil 73rd Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships,  reaching the quarterfinals here at the Municipal Corporation Indoor  Stadium on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-table-tennis-table-tennis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Favourites make the grade - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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