Table Tennis Asian Cup 2022 LIVE: Manika Batra vs World No. 23 Chen Szu Yu of Taipei starts soon, Indian one step away from semis as QUARTERFINALS get underway – Follow LIVE
Table Tennis Asian Cup 2022: India’s top-ranked women’s table tennis player Manika Batra will face World No. 23 Chen Szu-Yu of Chinese Taipei in the QuarterFinals on Friday. Manika Batra, India’s only women’s table tennis player to make the cut for the championships, is world No. 44. The QFs of the ongoing Asian Cup 2022 tournament is taking place at Huamark Indoor Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. The battle for LAST-4 is currently underway.
ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup 2022, DAY 2, QuarterFinals LIVE
- In the first quarterfinal of the day, WANG Yidi of China defeated South Korea’s SHIN Yubin by 4-1. Playing on Table 1 at the Huamark Indoor Stadium, the score read 7-11, 11-6, 11-3, 11-3, 11-5 in the favour of the Chinese Woman.
- The second women’s quarterfinal was an absolute blockbuster. Hina HAYATA of Japan rallied from 1-3 to win the contest in the decider against DOO Hoi Kem of Hongkong, China.
Earlier on Thursday, Batra produced a stunning performance to register a victory over World No. 7 Chen Xingtong of China in the first round.
The Indian paddler defeated the fourth-seeded table tennis player 4-3 (8-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-6, 9-11, 8-11, 11-9). Batra gained an 8-3 lead and appeared to be on track after the match went into a decider. Chen used her expertise to tie the game at 9-9, but two consecutive mistakes from her handed Manika Batra one of the biggest victories of her career.
On the other hand, in the men’s singles, both the Indian challengers – Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, world No. 39, and India’s national champion Sharath Kamal, ranked 44th – were knocked out after losing in the first round.
Sathiyan fought back against World No. 26 Yukiya Uda of Japan and levelled the match at 3-3 after being 2-0 down. However, he eventually bit the dust in the final game and lost the match 4-3 (11-9, 11-8, 7-11, 9-11,11-6, 10-12, 11-6).
Later in the day, 2022 Commonwealth Games champion Sharath Kamal clinched the first game against World No. 16 Chuang Chih-Yuan of
Chinese Taipei but went down in the next four to lose 4-1 (11-7, 4-11, 7-11, 4-11, 6-11).
The three-day table tennis competition, which includes men’s and women’s singles events, will conclude on November 19.