Desk Tennis At Asian Video games: Manika Batra Enters Pre-Quarterfinals; Combined Pair Knocked Out

Star Indian paddler Manika Batra entered the pre-quarterfinals with a dominating win over lower-ranked Nepal’s Nabita Shrestha in ladies’s singles on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou on Thursday. Manika, a 2018 Commonwealth Video games gold medallist and a bronze winner in combined doubles on the Jakarta Asian Video games, blanked Nabita 4-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-3, 11-2) in simply 20 minutes to arrange a conflict with Thailand’s Suthasini Sawettabut. Nevertheless, Sreeja Akula confronted a humiliating defeat to North Korea’s Songgyong Pyon 0-4 (6-11, 4-11, 13-15, Sep 11) to bow out of the competitors.

Within the males’s doubles, Indian duo of Manav Vikash Thakkar and Manush Utpalbhai Shah defeated Mohamed Shaffan Ismail and Moosa Munsif Ahmed of the Maldives 3-1 (11-8, Sep 11, 11-6, 11-2) to enter the spherical of 16.

One other Indian pair Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Sharath Kamal Achanta, outplayed Mangolian mixture of Ser-Od Gankhuyag and Manlaijargal Munkh-Ochir 3-0 (11-5, 11-3, 11-3) in simply 13 minutes.

Nevertheless, India’s combined pair of Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra failed to manage their nerves on the final second, dropping towards Zhe Yu Clarence Chew and Jian Zeng of Singapore 2-3 (11-7, 11-9, 11-13, 10-12, 3-11) in an in depth pre-quarterfinals conflict on the Gongshu Canal Sports activities Park.

The opposite combined pair, Sreeja Akula and Harmeet Rajul Desai additionally bowed out dropping 0-3 (4-11, 6-11, 10-12) to Orawan Paranang and Phakpoom Sanguansin of Thailand. (Asian Video games 2023 Medals Tally | Asian Video games 2023 Full Schedule)

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