Sports News | Ghorpade-Chitale Advance to Pre-quarters, Sutirtha-Ayhika Ousted from TT World C''ships
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. Indian women's doubles pair of Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale advanced to pre-quarterfinals but their compatriots Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee were knocked out of the World Table Tennis Championships, here on Monday.
Doha, May 19 (PTI) Indian women's doubles pair of Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale advanced to pre-quarterfinals but their compatriots Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee were knocked out of the World Table Tennis Championships, here on Monday.
Chitale and Ghorpade rallied from a game down to beat the Singaporean duo of Zeng Jian and Ser Lin Qian 6-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-9 in their round-of-32 clash.
However, the 14th-seeded Indian pair of Sutirtha and Ayhika suffered a straight-game defeat to the lower-ranked German duo of Annett Kaufmann and Xiaona Shan, losing 1-11, 11-13, 7-11 in just 23 minutes.
India's mixed doubles campaign also came to an end with Chitale and Manush Shah losing 0-3 (8-11, 9-11, 2-11) to the Korean pair of Oh Junsung and Kim Nayeong.
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It turned out to be a disappointing day for Shah, who endured a hat-trick of defeats.
After the mixed doubles loss, he was ousted from the men's singles event by sixth seed Felix Lebrun of France, going down 0-4 (5-11, 6-11, 6-11, 9-11) in the second round.
Later, Shah also exited the men's doubles competition. Partnering Manav Thakkar, the eighth-seeded Indian duo lost tamely 5-11, 9-11, 11-8, 5-11 to the unseeded German pair of Benedikt Duda and Dang Qiu.
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