Asian Games Table Tennis: Indian men & women teams beat Singapore - HIGHLIGHTS
Catch the highlights of Indian men's and women's table tennis teams' group stage matches from the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Only Manika Batra managed to win a match against Chinese Taipei in the pre-quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Team Championships on February 21 in Busan. (Source: Getty)
Indian table tennis players have had a terrific start to the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Friday. Indian men's team started their day with a 3-0 thrashing of Yemen, and the women's team then edged Singapore women 3-2. In the day's final tie against the Singapore men's team, India's G Sathiyan, the stand-out performer, won two matches and Harmeet Desai one to guide India to a 3-1 win. These wins will give a boost to India's Round of 16 chances.
As it happened:
Sathiyan won the fourth set 11-6 to complete the victory over Singapore. India wins 3-1
Sathiyan wins the third game 11-9 in seven minutes and take the 2-1 lead.
Pang wins the second game 12-10 to make it 1-1 and Sathiyan needs to make a comeback.
Sathiyan wins the first game after an initial hiccup. 11-7
Sharath Kamal wins the third game in a close contest, 12-10