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Sharath Kamal Achanta, G Sathiyan and Manush Shah certified in males’s singles, whereas Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Reeth Tennison made the grade in the ladies’s part
Three gamers in males’s singles and 4 in ladies’s singles will symbolize India in the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals 2023 to be held in Durban from May 20-28 this yr.
As per the gamers’ listing unveiled for the mega occasion on Wednesday, the Indians who’ve certified in males’s singles are seasoned Sharath Kamal Achanta, G Sathiyan and Manush Shah whereas 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Reeth Tennison have made the grade.
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Two pairs every in males’s and girls’s doubles and two in blended doubles too have certified for this occasion.
The high Indian pair of Sharath-Sathiyan together with Hermeet Desai/Manush Shah made the grade in Men’s doubles whereas in ladies’s doubles, it is going to be Manika Batra/Archana Kamath and Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale that will probably be in rivalry.
The two pairs which have certified for the blended Doubles competitors are Satniyan/Manika Batra and Manav Thakkar/Archana Kamath.
Meanwhile, the world’s elite paddlers, together with Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin, Wang Manyu, Tomokazu Harimoto, Chen Meng, Ma Long, Mima Ito, Hugo Calderano and Wang Yidi, will probably be among the many individuals for the World Championships in Durban.
Reigning champions Fan Zhendong and Wang Manyu of China will probably be trying to defend their titles, however the duo are anticipated to face robust challenges from their compatriots like world No. 2 Wang Chuqin and world No. 1 Sun Yingsha, and people from different member associations, together with Japan’s Harimoto and Truls Moregard of Sweden.
China received 4 of 5 titles in the final version of the World Championships in Houston, the United States in 2021, with the boys’s doubles being the one exception the place the Swedish pair of Mattias Falck and Kristian Karlsson had been topped.
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The desk tennis flagship occasion will happen on the Durban International Convention Center and can characteristic 128 gamers every in the boys’s and girls’s singles, and 64 pairs in every of the doubles competitions.
This yr’s occasion marks a return of the championships to Africa after 84 years. The final time the occasion was held in Africa was in Cairo, Egypt in 1939.
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