World Group Desk Tennis Championships: Indian males beat second seed Germany

The Indian males’s staff defied big odds to script one of many greatest upsets of the World staff desk tennis championships in China on Sunday in Group 2, edging out second Germany 3-1. That is India’s second straight win within the Group. It is going to subsequent tackle Kazakhstan on October 3 (Monday).

G. Sathiyan, India’s top-ranked paddler at World No.37, was the star of the competition as he gained each his matches.

Sathiyan put it throughout World No. 36 Benedikt Duda after being down by two video games within the first rubber. And once more, within the fourth rubber in opposition to World No.9 Dang Qiu, the Indian fought again from being down by two video games to complete the tie in 5 video games.

Although Harmeet Desai misplaced the second tie to Dang in 4 video games, Manav Thakkar performed outstandingly to beat Ricardo Walther, a participant ranked 68 above Manav at 74, to win 13-11, 6-11, 11-8, 12-10 within the third rubber.

The fourth match between Sathiyan and Dang was a cliff-hanger. Trailing 3-6 within the decider, Sathiyan performed a nerveless attacking sport to etch one in every of his most interesting wins over a World top-10 ranked opponent.

“It was a incredible win, beating Germany, the Tokyo Olympics silver medallist for the primary time. All the staff was pumped up [before the match]. Full credit score to Harmeet [Desai], Manav [Thakkar] and India’s head coach Raman sir. It's nice to have the momentum after the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games males’s staff gold. We're preventing as one staff. That was the important thing,” mentioned Sathiyan to Sportstar after the victory.