Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Qualify for Semifinals of Mixed Doubles Event at WTT Contender Event 2021
This is the first time that the duo are competing alongside each other after the Commonwealth Games in 2018 where they had won a bronze medal. Manika Batra had partnered with Sharath Kamal at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics 2020 where they were defeated in the first round.
The Indian pair of Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran qualified for the semifinals of the mixed doubles event at the WTT Contender event on Wednesday. They defeated Slovakia's Lubomir Pistej and Barbora Balazova 11-4, 3-11, 6-11, 11-6, 11-9 in a thrilling quarterfinal clash.
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Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Manika Batra stun top seeds & World No. 7 Slovakian pair 3-2 in a thriller to storm into Semis of Mixed Doubles at WTT Contender tournament in Budapest. pic.twitter.com/n5sst3orYN
— India_AllSports (@India_AllSports) August 18, 2021
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