Manika Batra of India in motion (Credit: X)
Having began off their marketing campaign with a 2-3 loss to China, Indian ladies’s group now have secured two wins on the trot to occupy second spot within the Group 1 standings.
Indian ladies’s group eased previous Uzbekistan whereas the lads endured successive defeats with the loss to South Korea within the World Table Tennis Team Championships right here on Monday.
Ayhika Mukherjee and Sreeja Akula had been rested from the rubber, offering a possibility to Archana Kamath and Diya Chitale. They each received their respective singles whereas senior teammate Manika Batra additionally had it straightforward in opposition to her opponent to make it a 3-0 win for India.
Archana defeated Rimma Gufranov 11-7, 11-3, 11-6, whereas Manika stormed previous Markhabo Magdieva 11-7, 11-4, 11-1.
Diya however confronted robust resistance earlier than prevailing over Rozalina Khadjieva 11-6, 10-12, 11-4, 11-6.
Having began off their marketing campaign with a 2-3 loss to China, Indian ladies’s group now have secured two wins on the trot to occupy second spot within the Group 1 standings.
They will subsequent face Spain of their concluding Group 1 league fixture on Tuesday. They earlier defeated Hungary 3-2.
The males’s group of veteran Sharath Kamal, reigning nationwide champion Harmeet Desai and G Sathiyan misplaced their respective singles to go down meekly in its third group stage tie in opposition to third seeds Korea.
Harmeet, who’s India’s prime-ranked participant at 67, went down to world quantity 14 Jang Woojin 4-11, 10-12, 8-11.
Sathiyan was then brushed apart by world quantity 16 Lim Jonghoon 5-11, 7-11, 7-11.
Sharath managed to put up a battle, taking the second sport however couldn’t capitalise on the momentum shedding 9-11, 11-8, 6-11, 5-11 to Lee San Su.
After profitable their opening tie in opposition to Chile, Indian males misplaced 1-3 to Poland on Sunday.
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