Sanish sparks with Double Crown at 78th Maharashtra State Table Tennis Championship 2016 at Balewadi, Pune. Along with Sanish, Deepit and Gaurav helped Thane to bag 4 Golds. Thaneits also won 3 Silver and 4 Bronze medals to conclude last State tournament of this year.

Sanish Ambekar [Seed - 1] beat Omkar Torgalkar(MSD) [Seed - 2] 4-1(11/9,11/3,8/11,11/6,11/9) to win Gold in Mens category. He also beat Shubham Ambre(MCD) [Seed - 2] 4-1 (11/8,9/11,11/7,11/5,11/8) to win Gold in Youth group.


Deepit Patil [Seed - 2] made convincing victory over Dev Shroff(MSD) [Seed - 1] 4-0 (11/9,11/6,11/3,11/9) in Finals of Sub-Jr Boys.

Gaurav Panchangam [Seed - 2] beat Tanmay Rao (MSD) 3-1 (11/7,10/12,11/9,11/2) to lift Midget Boys crown.


Rutuja Kopkar, Shreya Deshpande and Jash Dalvi were Runner up in Youth Girls, Junior Girls and Junior Boys respectively.


Snehal Patil, Sahil Joshi, Arya Songadkar and Aryan Deshpande were Semi-Finalist in Youth Girls, Sub-Jr Boys, Cadet Girls and Midget Boys respectively.

Following Thane players played Quarter Final
Tejas Kamble - Men Disha Hulawle - Women Rutuja Khopkar - Women Mansi Deshpande - Women Yugandh Zende - Youth Boys Tejas Kamble - Youth Boys		Disha Hulawle - Youth Girls Mansi Deshpande - Youth Girls Kheya Shah - Sub Jr. Girls Tejal Kamble - Sub Jr. Girls Sachi Dalvi - Cadet Girls Nachiketo Mukherjii - Midget Boys

Final Tally Table.

Tournament	Winner	Runner-up	Semi-finalist
1st State Ranking	1	4	6
2nd State Ranking	3	4	6
3rd State Ranking	5	2	9
4th State Ranking	1	2	6
5th State Ranking	4	2	5
State Championship	4	3	4