Saturday, January 25, 2020

Table Tennis News

At ITTF World Olympic Team Qualification - Tokyo 2020, Gondomar, Portugal

Men's Teams - Stage 2 Quarter-Final
(5) India l (16) Czech Republic 1-3
[M1] Harmeet Desai (IND)/ Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND) l Tomas Polansky (CZE)/ Lubomir Jancarik (CZE) 1-3 (14-12, 5-11, 9-11, 9-11)
[M2] Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND,30) l Pavel Sirucek (CZE,45) 0-3 (10-12, 11-13, 9-11)
[M3] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND,33) bt Lubomir Jancarik (CZE,89) 3-1 (6-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-8)
[M4] Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND,30) l Tomas Polansky (CZE,166) 2-3 (16-14, 10-12, 14-12, 8-11, 9-11)

Women's Teams - Stage 2 Quarter Final
(17) India l (18) France 2-3
[M1] Sutirtha Mukherjee (IND)/ Ayhika Mukherjee (IND) bt Stephanie Loeuillette (FRA)/ Jia Nan Yuan (FRA) 3-2 (11-7, 6-11, 10-12, 11-4, 11-8)
[M2] Manika Batra (IND,61) l Marie Migot (FRA,195) 2-3 (7-11, 11-3, 9-11, 11-3, 7-11)
[M3] Sutirtha Mukherjee (IND,157) l Jia Nan Yuan (FRA,161) 0-3 (7-11, 8-11, 6-11)
[M4] Manika Batra (IND,61) bt Stephanie Loeuillette (FRA,99) 3-0 (11-7, 12-10, 11-4)
[M5] Ayhika Mukherjee (IND,121) l Marie Migot (FRA,195) 2-3 (11-6, 8-11, 11-5, 9-11, 9-11)

Our men's team lost their match against the Czech Republic team ... In the first doubles match, a Czech pair defeated Sharath and Harmeet in 4 games ... Sathiyan's poor run continued, he lost the second match against Sirucek in straight games and afterward, lost against a lowly ranked Tomas Polansky in 5 games ... Sathiyan's erratic form cost a place for the Indian team in Tokyo Olympic ... Sharath scored a comeback win after losing the first game and gave India their only point of the tie.

Our women's team challenge got over with a loss against the French team ... Again we lost our singles matches against lower-ranked French girls... Marie Migot defeated Manika Batra and Ayhika Mukherjee in 5 games for a thrilling win.

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