Indian men’s table tennis team launches its ITTF World Team Championship Finals 2022 campaign, with a 3-0 win over Uzbekistan in their first Group 2 tie here on Saturday.
World number 37 Sathiyan Gyanasekaran sets the ball rolling India Kholikov beat Elmurod 3-0 (11-9, 11-9, 11-1).
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National Games champion Harmeet Desai again won 3-0 (11-9, 11-6, 11-9) and Manav Thakkar defeated Iskandarov Shokhrukh 3-0 (11-6, 11-5). Of. 11-5).
After the win, the Indian men’s table tennis team is second in Group 2 with two points and will play second seed Germany on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the women’s team fought hard but were eventually seeded 2–3 to fifth in their first Group 5 match.
The tie began with Manika Batra losing 0-3 (3-11, 1-11, 2-11) to world number 8 Han Ying in her first match. However, youngsters Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale reversed the tie in the next two matches.
National champion Sreeja, ranked 77 in the world, brought India back into the tie with an impressive 3-0 (11-9, 12-10, 11-7) win over world number 14 Nina Mittalham. Kishori Diya beat world number 46 Sabine Winter 3-1 (11-9, 11-8, 6-11, 13-11) to give India another 2-1 lead.
Looking to seal the tie, Manika took the opening game against Nina Mittelham but she lost 1–3 (11–7, 6–11, 7–11, 8–11) as Germany made it 2–2. made. Sreeja Akula could not repeat her heroism in the decider as she lost 0-3 (3-11, 5-11, 4-11) to Han Ying.
The women’s team will now take on the Czech Republic on Sunday.
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