Manika Batra, India’s highest-ranked participant on the planet, might want to discover her kind quickly if India are to do nicely on the World Table Tennis Team Championships being held in Chengdu, China.
India have been on the verge of a historic victory towards World No. 5 Germany on Saturday, however Manika misplaced each her matches as Germany managed to win the tie 3-2.
While her 3-0 (11-3,11-1, 11-2) loss towards World No. 8 Ying Han within the first match of the tie was comprehensible given Han’s expertise on the high degree, her match towards Nina Mittelham was riddled with errors. Though she received the primary sport 11-7, she misplaced the subsequent three 6-11, 7-11, 8-11.
India’s No. 1 and present senior nationwide champion Sreeja Akula pulled off the largest win of her profession with a 3-0 (11-9, 12-10, 11-7) win over World No. 14 Mittelham within the second match of the tie.
19-year-old Diya Chitale, ranked 122 on the planet, then put India a powerful place to win the tie with an excellent show of attacking desk tennis to dominate World No. 46 Sabine Winter 3-1 (11-9, 11-8, 6-11, 13-11) to offer India a 2-1 lead.
It was then all the way down to Manika to win the tie for India by beating Mittelham, who was beneath stress having misplaced to Sreeja in straight video games. But Manika, who didn’t win a single medal on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and the recently-concluded National Games, couldn’t handle to maintain up with the depth of the sport as Germany degree scores 2-2.
In the ultimate match of the tie, Sreeja confronted Han, who’s an skilled defensive chopper. Han broke no sweat in ending off the match 3-0 (11-3, 11-5, 11-4) to keep away from an embarrassing defeat for Germany.
The girls’s group tackle the Czech Republic of their subsequent group sport on Sunday.
Earlier within the day, the Indian males’s group pulled off a dominating 3-0 win over Uzbekistan their first match. Harmeet Desai, G Sathiyan and Manav Thakkar received their singles matches with out dropping a sport. The males face subsequent Germany on Sunday.
