Table Tennis – ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals Busan 2024 – Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre, Busan, South Korea – February 16, 2024 India’s Ayhika Mukherjee in motion throughout her ladies’s singles group stage match towards China’s Sun Yingsha.
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Top seed China stopped a combating India 3-2 within the opening ladies’s group match of the World group desk tennis championships in Busan on Friday.
After Ayhika Mukherjee gave India a rousing begin with a beautiful win over World No. 1 Sun Yingsha within the first rubber, China levelled issues when World No. 4 Wang Manyu scripted a facile 11-3, 11-8, 13-15, 11-7 victory over Manika Batra, India’s top-ranked paddler at 36.
Undaunted, Sreeja Akula, world ranked 49, performed a fearless attacking sport to outwit Wang Yidi, world no. 2 handy India a 2-1 lead. Hopes hinged on Manika, however she was inconsistent and misplaced to Yingsha in 4 video games. In the fifth and deciding tie, Ayhika couldn’t do an encore as she went right down to Manyu in three straight video games.
The outcomes:
China bt India 3-2 (Sun Yingsha misplaced to Ayhika Mukherjee 10-12, 11-2, 11-13, 6-11; Wang Manyu bt Manika Batra 11-3, 11-8, 13-15, 11-7; Wang Yidi misplaced to Sreeja Akula 7-11, Sep 11, 11-13; Yingsha bt Manika 11-3, 11-6, 11-13, 11-9; Manyu bt Ayhika 11-9, 13-11, 11-6).
