Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 8 Table Tennis LIVE: Defending champ Manika Batra crashes out — Scores, Updates, Blog
A packed day of Indian table tennis action awaits us as Sharath Kamal, Manika Batra, G. Sathiyan will lead the charge across events at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022. Follow LIVE.
Manika Batra. (File photo)
Welcome to the live blog of table tennis from Day 8 of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022!
It's set to be a packed day of table tennis action with back-to-back matches lined up as Indian paddlers Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, and Manika Batra, among others, will lead the charge across events.
Follow all table tennis action live:
The Indian men's team is being super impressive as G. Sathiyan also reaches the quarters!
What a performance by the men's team!
What form from the 40-year-old! Sharath Kamal moves into the quarters after taking down his Nigerian opponent!
This is his sixth win of the day!
Sharath Kamal tries to keep his nerves about him and has a 3-2 lead against his Nigerian opponent Omotayo!
It's been a long day for Indian paddlers here as Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is also being made to go the distance here
Up against Australia's Nicholas Lum, it is 2 ALL!
We are into the fifth game!
Up against Nigeria's Bode Abiodun, Sanil Shetty has to go the distance. We are into the sixth game as both players have taken two sets a piece!
Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Sanil Shetty are playing their Round of 16 singles clashes simultaneously in Birmingham.
Manika Batra suffers a heartbreaking defeat to Singapore's Jian Zeng 4-0!
This is the end of her campaign in women's singles here
Manika Batra loses the third game, things are looking very dangerous for the defending champion!
Batra loses the third game, 11-4!