2016 RCB Table Tennis Tournament

Following the success from last year when RCB organized its first-ever Table Tennis Tournament, this year too, we were certainly not disappointed.

Held on 25th September 2016, the format of the tournament remained the same as last year, where the four captains – Anand Dalal, Jamshyd Vazifdar, Mehernosh Dotivala and Satyan Israni – picked names at random to form their teams.

In Group 1 were Anand’s team comprising Moy Biswas, Bomi Framroze, Rohan Dalal, Yajjat Sekhsaria (Alok’s son), Avyayaraj Arenja (Anuj’s nephew) and Hriman Batra (Dr. Akshay Batra’s son) paired up against Satyan’s team which consisted of Mudit Jatia, Sohrab Khushrushahi, Vivek Himatsingka, Rajesh Shah, Peshwan Jehangir, Ravi Fotedar and Rishad Poonawala (Khurshed’s son).

In group 2 were Mehernosh’s team of Khurshed Poonawala,  Karl and Dinshaw Divecha, Kirit Kamdar, Mahesh Khubchandani and Sanjiv Saran Mehra paired up against Jamshyd’s team of Anuj Arenja, Nowroze Vazifdar, Vineet Suchanti, PP Dr. Sonya Mehta, Yasmin Divecha and Dilip Dalal.

After the gripping quarter finals and keenly-contested semi-finals, the ‘Bronze-medal match’ between Anand and Yajjat, and Mahesh and Sanjeev, saw the former pair emerging as winners.

Then, it was time for the finals, where the father-son Divecha duo defeated Peshwan and Ravi in a gallantly-fought match.

President Dr. Mukesh Batra was present, but unfortunately could not take part this year, and joined Niloufer Vazifdar to cheer the participants.

Sports Committee chair Jamshyd Vazifdar gratefully acknowledged the support of PP Paul George for making available the premises of the YMCA, and Jijo from the YMCA once again. He also mentioned that, as in the past year, the equipment had been loaned to us by Rotarian Vita Dani, and thanked his Committee members, especially Moy Biswas for meticulously keeping the score and Sanjiv for sourcing the trophies this year.

This was followed by the prize distribution and a typical fun-filled Rotary fellowship over snacks and beverages.