Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (Photo Credit: Sathiyan Instagram)
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is at the moment in Poland for the 10-day lengthy Polish Superliga and will return residence on April 14.
- IANS New Delhi
- Last Updated:April 03, 2021, 19:17 IST
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To put together for the Tokyo Olympics beginning July 23, India’s ace desk tennis participant Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is competing in the 10-day lengthy Polish Superliga that began on Friday. The 28-year-old Gnanasekaran is representing Jaroslaw, the town that’s internet hosting the Polish Superliga. He reached Poland on Friday and will return on April 14. According to Gnanasekaran, since a number of competitions are both being cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus, collaborating in the Polish league will hold him match match. “It is a tough competition. So I wanted to compete to get the benefit of match practice in times of pandemic,” he informed IANS.
In the quarter-finals, the Indian participant received an important singles recreation to assist his crew beat Bydgoszcz crew 3-1 and enter the last-four stage of the competitors. The semi-finals might be performed on April 7.
Last month, the Chennai-based nationwide champion had made the minimize for Olympics males’s singles occasion throughout the Asian qualification match held in Doha.
Jakarta Asian Games bronze-medallist Sharath Kamal turned the second Indian to ebook a berth for the Olympics in the lads’s singles occasion.
“It was a tough quarter-final. The semis could be more challenging. Hope my team enters the final,” Gnanasekaran informed IANS over telephone from Jaroslaw.
Due to the brand new wave of coronavirus in Europe, there’s a lockdown in a number of cities in Poland too.
“We are staying in a bio-bubble. We are not allowed to venture outside the hotel or the stadium. All the shops and restaurants are shut. The local government has allowed players from outside to compete because it’s a professional league. I’m just focusing on the tournament,” he added.
