Olympians Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula failed to qualify for the knockout stage at the ITTF World Cup in Macao, China, on Wednesday. Placed in Group 16, World No. 30 Manika lost 1-3 (11-13, 8-11, 4-11, 12-10) to World No. 23 Bruna Takahashi of Brazil in a virtual knockout clash. Earlier, the Indian had beaten … Read more
Olympians Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula won their group stage openers at the ITTF World Cup in Macao, China, on Monday. Placed in Group 16, World No. 30 Manika began her campaign by taking down New Caledonia’s Maylis Giret 4-0 (11-1, 11-2, 11-6, 11-4). The Indian faces World No. 23 Bruna Takahashi of Brazil in … Read more
An action-packed penultimate day of the 86th Senior National Table Tennis Championship started off with the second seeds in men’s and women’s singles – Harmeet Desai and Swastika Ghosh, respectively – bowing out in the round of 32. And the day of upsets was capped off with Payas Jain – the promising youngster from Delhi … Read more