Indian campaign ended on the Singapore Smash desk tennis event after Manika Batra misplaced both her women’s doubles and mixed doubles matches along with her respective companions right here on March 14.
Manika and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran misplaced to Japan’s world championships silver medallists duo of Hina Hayata and Tomokazu Harimoto in the mixed doubles quarterfinals to finish their positive run in the event.
Manika-Sathiyan went down 2-3 (Sept. 11 Sept. 11 11-8 11-5 7-11) to their fourth-seeded opponents in a hard-fought last-eight stage match that lasted 52 minutes. The Indian duo have been seeded sixth in the event.
Earlier, Manika and Sathiyan had defeated Singapore pair of Jian Zeng and Chew Zhe Yu Clarence 3-1 (11-7, 12-10, Sept. 11, 11-3) in their spherical of 16 mixed doubles match. They had bought a primary spherical bye.
In the women’s doubles, Manika and Archana Kamath misplaced to Meng Chen and Yidi Wang of China 2-3 (2-11 6-11 15-13 12-10 6-11) in a hard-fought spherical of 16 match that lasted 42 minutes.
Earlier, Manika, Sathiyan and Sharath Kamal had misplaced their respective singles matches in the primary spherical.
In the boys’s doubles occasion, Harmeet Desai and Manav Thakkar have been additionally ousted in the primary spherical.
