Table Tennis News

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

Women's Singles
[R16] Manika Batra (IND,67) l (4) Miu Hirano (JPN,11) 0-4 (9-11, 1-11, 7-11, 7-11)

Men's Singles
[R16] Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND,30) l (1) Tomokazu Harimoto (JPN,5) 0-4 (8-11, 5-11, 4-11, 8-11)

Men's Doubles
[PR2] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) bt Ibrahim Gunduz (TUR)/ Abdullah Yigenler (TUR) 3-1 (9-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-4)

[R16] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) bt Shunsuke Togami (JPN)/ Yukiya Uda (JPN) 3-2 (11-6, 11-8, 8-11, 9-11 11-9)
[QF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) bt (4) Nandor Ecseki (HUN)/ Adam Szudi (HUN) 3-0 (11-8, 11-7, 11-8)
[SF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) bt (1) Kwan Kit Ho (HKG)/ Chun Ting Wong (HKG) 3-2 (11-7, 12-10, 4-11, 4-11, 11-9)

[F] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) vs (2) Benedikt Duda (GER)/ Patrick Franziska (GER)

Mixed Doubles
[PR2] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Aliaksandr Khanin (BLR)/ Daria Trigolos (BLR) 3-1 (11-4, 9-11, 11-7, 13-11)

[R16] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Adam Szudi (HUN)/ Szandra Pergel (HUN) 3-2 (11-8, 9-11, 6-11, 11-9, 11-7)
[QF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) bt Jun Mizutani (JPN)/ Mima Ito (JPN) w/o

[SF] Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)/ Manika Batra (IND) l Patrick Franziska (GER)/ Petrissa Solja (GER) 0-3 (6-11, 8-11, 6-11)

Expected losses of Manika and Sathiyan in the singles against their respective superior Japanese opponents.

In the doubles, Sathiyan and Sharath reach into the final ... They scored a couple of exciting wins over higher ranked Japanese and Hong Kong pairs ... In the final, they r facing a German pair.

In MXD, Sharat and Manika lost in the semis against the German pair ... Before that, they received a walkover in the quarters from a higher-ranked Japanese pair.