Manika Batra and Archana Kamath assured India of a medal by storming into the semi-finals of the WTT Star Contender Desk Tennis match in Doha on Tuesday.
Batra and Kamath beat Hong Kong’s Soo Wai Yam Minnie and Lee Ho Ching 3-1 (13-11, 8-11, 11-5, 13-11) within the quarter-finals.
The Indians managed to stave off stiff resistance from the Hong Kong duo within the first recreation on prolonged factors. Nevertheless, Minnie and Ching restored parity within the subsequent.
The Indians then did exceedingly nicely to place themselves within the driver’s seat by grabbing the following recreation. They held their nerves to clinch a decent fourth recreation to wrap up the match.
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Manika and Archana will tackle Taipei’s Li Yu-Jhun and Cheng I-Ching within the semi-finals.
Manika Batra advances in singles, loses in combined doubles
Nevertheless, Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran did not go previous the primary spherical in combined doubles. The Indians misplaced 1-3 (7-11, 11-9, 7-11, 5-11) to Spaniards Maria Xiao and Alvaro Robles.
In girls’s singles, Manika accounted for Germany’s World No. 26 Xiaona Shan 7-11, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9 within the Spherical of 32.
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Manika confirmed nice character to return again strongly after the lack of the primary recreation. She didn’t let the depth dip within the third recreation and proved her mettle within the fourth recreation too as she held on courageously to win.
The Indian will tackle German Ying Han, who’s ranked No. 17, within the pre-quarterfinals.
In the meantime, Achanta Sharath Kamal misplaced his second-round match to Dang Qiu of Germany after main 2-0. The German participant of Chinese language origin received 7-11, 7-11, 11-5, 11-3, 11-7.
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