World Crew Desk Tennis Championships: India defeats Uzbekistan 3-0; Sreeja pulls off massive upset in opposition to Germany

The Indian males’s workers blanked Uzbekistan 3-0 in its opening match of the World workers desk tennis championships proper right here on Saturday.

Harmeet Desai, G. Sathiyan and Manav Thakkar scored comfortable victories. Later throughout the day, the Indian girls’s workers will deal with Germany, seeded fifth.

Indian males will subsequent face second seeded Germany on Sunday at spherical 11.30 a.m.

Sreeja Akula of India pulled off her best victory however of her nascent occupation, when she defeated World No.14 Nina Mittleham of Germany 11-9, 12-10, 11-7 throughout the girls’s second tie of the World workers desk tennis championships to stage the match at 1-1.

India’s prime paddler Manika Batra had misplaced the opening rubber to Ying Grasp, World No.8, 3-11, 1-11, 2-11.

The knockout begins on October 5. Defending champion China is seeded first in every the boys’s and girls’s workers events.

The Indian males’s workers will probably be hoping to make it to the knockout stage. But it surely certainly will not be easy with second seeded Germany, France and Uzbekistan.

Throughout the absence of veteran paddler and Birmingham Commonwealth Video video games star Sharath Kamal, the onus will probably be on G. Sathiyan. The perfect ranked Indian on this planet at 37, Sathiyan should get ample help from Harmeet Desai, Manush Shah, Manav Thakkar and Sanil Shetty.

Common, 16 teams in each of the boys’s and girls’s events will qualify for the knockout stage. The best two teams in each group will make it to the spherical of 16 along with the 4 best-placed third teams throughout the groups in every the boys’s and girls’s events.