Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Sharath Kamal
Indian problem on the World Table Tennis Contender collection ended after veteran Sharath Kamal suffered a loss to world No. 7 Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese Taipei within the males’s singles pre-quarterfinals right here on Thursday.
The 38-year-old Indian suffered a 6-11, 4-11, 8-11 defeat towards Lin.
The World No. 32 Sharath, who was enjoying his first worldwide match after a 12 months’s break because of the COVID-19 pandemic, could not achieve momentum regardless of displaying good resistance within the latter a part of the match towards the higher-ranked Yun-Ju.
Earlier, Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula additionally misplaced their respective closing qualifying spherical matches within the girls’s singles class.
While Batra misplaced to World No. 69 Ganna Gaponova 5-11, 6-11, 14-12, 5-11, Akula, who had outclassed World No. 74 Vega Paulina of Chile within the earlier spherical, went down preventing Sep 11, 11-5, 11-6, 6-11, 5-11 to Russian opponent Mariia Tailkova.
