BAMBOLIM (GOA)

Goan paddlers Noel Noronha and Sachin Soares (40+), Ajit Ghantker, Deepak Gopani, Joseph Sequeira, Anand Naik, Arun Naik and Sanjeev Afzalpurkar (50+) and Uday Volvoikar (60+) won their respective League matches to qualify into the main draw in individual category events, in the Forza International Veteran Cup 2017 Table Tennis championship organised by Goa Table Tennis Association in collaboration with Forza Sports Management and the Sports Authority of Goa, at Dr S.P. Mukherjee stadium, Taleigao.

In 40+ team event, Noel and Sachin who had reached the quarter finals bowed out, losing 0-3 to eventual winners team Shurveer comprising of R Rajesh and Vikas Mahajan. Team Shurveer beat team King Pong (Rohit Choudhary and Vivek Bhargava) 3-0 in the 40+ finals. The 50+ Team championship event was won by team Thinq A(Sunil Babras & Vivek Alavni) who beat team Punjab (Pankaj Sharma and Vivek Arora) 3-0 in the finals.