Last Updated: March 02, 2023, 08:42 IST
Manika Batra headlined a formidable Indian efficiency on the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Goa, profitable her three matches throughout classes on Wednesday.
However veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal’s marketing campaign ended within the opening spherical itself at the same time as his youthful compatriots notched up wins of their respective occasions.
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In the morning session, Sharath and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran misplaced their males’s doubles pre-quarter-final match to Koreans Jaehyun An and Seungmin Cho 1-3 (6-11, 7-11, 11-7, 8-11).
Then within the last match of the day, rising Kazakh star Kirill Gerassimenko defeated the reigning Commonwealth Games champion in straight video games (3-0: 11-8,11-7,11-8) to interrupt Indian hearts. Sathiyan nonetheless received his males’s singles opening spherical encounter towards countryman Harmeet Desai. The scoreline was 11-4, 10-12, 13-11 and 11-9 in Chennai man’s favour.
Manika, the highest-ranked Indian in ladies’s singles, bought off to a flying begin early within the first session, defeating 152nd-ranked Englishwoman Ho Tin-Tin 3-0 (11-4,11-8,11-5).
She then partnered Archana to a hard-fought 3-2 (8-11,Sept. 11,11-5,11-6,12-10) win over the Hong Kong, China, pairing of Li Ching Wan and Zhu Chengzhu, after being 0-2 down at one stage to the qualifiers.
Finally, within the night session, her pairing with Sathiyan prevailed over the Korean pair of Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin in 4 video games (3-1: 11-7,3-11,11-6,11-6) in blended doubles match.
”Today, I received my singles, doubles and blended doubles. Mixed doubles have been actually powerful as we’ve misplaced towards them twice earlier than. But this time we received, and I’m actually proud of that win.
”Let’s see what occurs on this match. I’ll give my 100% and my finest for my nation and for myself,” Manika stated on the finish of the day.
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