Friday, February 21, 2020

Table Tennis News

At $170K ITTF World Tour Hungarian Open 2020, Budapest, Hungary

Women's Singles
[PR1] Manika Batra (IND,67) bt Margo Degraef (BEL,156) 4-0 (11-6, 11-5, 11-4, 11-9)
[PR2] Manika Batra (IND,67) bt Jamila Laurenti (ITA,196) 4-1 (9-11, 11-2, 11-7, 11-3, 11-4)
[PR3] Manika Batra (IND,67) bt Aikaterini Toliou (GRE,180) 4-0 (11-6, 11-8, 11-9, 11-7)

[R32] Manika Batra (IND,67) bt Szu-Yu Chen (TPE,26) 4-3 (9-11, 4-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-9, 11-7, 14-12)

[R16] Manika Batra (IND,67) vs (4) Miu Hirano (JPN,11)

Men's Singles
[R32] Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND,30) bt Noshad Alamiyan (IRI,61) 4-0 (11-6, 11-6, 11-9, 11-2)

[R16] Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND,30) vs (1) Tomokazu Harimoto (JPN,5)

Our players r playing in the Hungarian Open to qualify for Tokyo Olympics ... Manika Batra produced the biggest win of her career when she defeated the top-30 Taipei player, Szu-Yu Chen ... She was facing a defeat after losing the first 3 games and faced a match-point ... From here, she made a remarkable comeback in the match ... She saved a match point and won the next 3 games ... And completed win after a closely fought final game ... Next, she is facing the WR #11 Miu Hirano.

Sathiyan also started with a comfortable win over his Iranian opponent, Noshad Alamiyan ... Next, Sathiyan is having a real tough match against the WR #5 Tomokazu Harimoto.

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