Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in motion throughout his males’s singles group stage match in opposition to South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon.
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India endured a second consecutive loss on the World Table Tennis Team Championships, happening to hosts South Korea 0-3 right here on February 19.
Veteran Sharath Kamal, reigning nationwide champion Harmeet Desai and G. Sathiyan misplaced their respective singles to go down meekly in their third group stage tie in opposition to third seeds Korea.
Harmeet, who’s India’s top-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 with India trailing 0-2.
Sharath managed to put up a struggle, taking the second recreation however could not capitalise on the momentum dropping Sept. 11, 11-8, 6-11, 5-11 to Lee San Su and conceding the tie.
After successful its opening tie in opposition to Chile, the Indian team misplaced 1-3 to Poland. But regardless of the 2 losses, India lie in the second spot in Group 3 behind Korea.
Later in the day, the India ladies’s team will tackle Uzbekistan.
