India’s marketing campaign got here to an finish with Sutirtha Mukherjee and Manika Batra, dropping their girls’s singles pre-quarterfinals. The day’s honours at the WTT Star Contender Goa on Friday went to Miwa Harimoto, the rising star from a household of desk tennis champions and youthful sister of teenage sensation Tomokazu.
At 14, Miwa is ranked No. 2 in the under-19 women’ part. and has risen to the forty first place in the girls’s rankings’ record. The little one prodigy stormed into the girls’s singles quarterfinal and entered the girls’s doubles and combined doubles remaining.
Miwa will, nonetheless, not be up towards her well-known brother in the combined doubles remaining as Tomokazu and Hina Hayata misplaced their semifinal versus Korea’s Woojin Jang and Jiheen Jeon.
While Sutirtha couldn’t match her 44-year-old opponent Fu Yu’s pace to bow out in straight video games, Manika performed an thrilling match towards China’s rising star Tianyi Qian. After dropping the first two video games, Manika adopted an aggressive method to win the third. However, after a four-point streak that positioned her 6-5 forward in the fourth sport, Qian took a time-out and compelled Manika into a number of errors to wrap up the match.
The outcomes:
Singles: Pre-quarterfinals: Men: Tomokazu Harimoto (Jap) bt Simon Gauzy (Fra) 11-9, 11-8, 11-9; Lin Gaoyuan (Chn) bt Kristian Carlsson (Swe) 8-11, 11-7, 11th of September, 11-6, 11-7; Lin Shidong (Chn) bt Cho Daeseong (Kor) 11-9, 5-11, 11th of September, 11-5, 11-4.
Women: Miwa Harimoto (Jap) bt Chen Szu-Yu (Tpe) 11-8, 10-12, 11-5, 14-12; Fu Yu (Por) bt Sutirtha Mukherjee (Ind) 11-5, 11-7, 11-5; Xiaoxin Yang (Mon) bt Liu Weishan 11th of September, 11th of September, 11-8, 14-12, 11-7; Tianyi Qian (Chn) bt Manika Batra (Ind) 11-6, 11-3, 11th of September, 11-7. Doubles: Semifinals: Mixed: Woojin Jang & Jiheen Jeon (Kor) bt Tomokazu Harimoto & Hina Hayata (Jap) 6-11, 11th of September, 11-8, 11-8, 11-8; Togami Shunsuke & Miwa Harimoto (Jap) bt Emmanuel Lebesson & Jia Nan Yuan (Fra) 11-9, 13-11, 11-8.
Women: Cheng I-Ching & Li Yu-Jhun (Tpe) bt Hyoojo Choi & Zion Lee (Kor) 11th of September, 11-4, 11-7, 6-11, 11-7; Miwa Harimoto & Miyu Nagasaki (Jap) bt Christina Kallberg & Linda Bergstrom (Swe) 11-5, 12-10, 11-2.
Men: Togami Shunsuke & Ukiya Uda (Jap) bt Woojin Jang & Jonghoom Lim (Kor) 11-5, 3-11, 11-3, 6-11, 11-8; An Jaehyun & Cho Seungmin (Kor) bt Mizuki Oikawa & Yuto Kuzukuri (Jap) 11-7, 5-11, 11-8, 11-6.
