Table Tennis, Men's Doubles: Manav-Manush exits in R32; Harmeet-Sathiyan advances

An early exit for the top Indian men's doubles pairing of Manav Thakkar and Manush, losing in the second round to Tomokazu Harimoto and Hiroto Shinozuka of Japan, 7-11, 9-11, 11-7, 6-11.

Meanwhile, Harmeet Desai and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran defeated Affan Pratama and Muhammad Negara of Indonesia in five games (11-4, 11-7, 7-11, 8-11, 11-6) to advance to the Round of 16.

Harmeet and Sathiyan will now take on another Japanese pair, Sora Matushima and Shunshuke Togame, in the round of 16 later today.