National Games LIVE: Table Tennis FINAL - Updates, Results, Scores, Blog
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Manush Shah
Table Tennis, at the 2022 National Games, was hosted a bit early to accommodate the big guns who will travel to China for the World Table Tennis Championships later this month.
While the top seeds in both men's and women's singles - Sathiyan and Manika, exited in the semifinals, we still have exciting match ups lined up.
Stay tuned!
That was barely a contest for Harmeet Desai as he blanks Soumyajit Ghosh 4-0 in the men's singles final. Easily the superior player on the evening, and Harmeet Desai, once again in front of his home crowd, has bagged a gold.
Final score: 11-8, 11-4, 11-7, 11-8
He continues to struggles does Soumyajit Ghosh. The two-time Olympian is being completely outplayed by Harmeet Desai. The Gujarat lad wins third set 11-7 and leads 3-0.
Harmeet Desai seems to be cruising through to the National Games title. Soumyajit looks barely of any match to the Gujarat lad, who pockets the second game 11-4.
Harmeet Desai starts of well and pockets the first game 11-8.
The men's singles final up next with two veterans - Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh, going up against each other.
Sreeja Akula once again squanders a lead in the set as Sutirtha Mukherjee takes the gold medal with a 4-1 win in the final. This is the third gold medal for Mukherjee at the 2022 National Games.
Final Score: 11-8, 11-7, 11-8, 12-14, 11-9
What a comeback this from Sreeja Akula. She lead 2-6 and then almost blew it once again, but maintains her cool to win the fourth game 14-12. Sutirtha still leads 3-1.
Sreeja Akula looks clueless as she once again squanders an early lead to go down 8-11 in the third set. Suthirtha leads 3-0 and is only a set away from the gold medal!
She was trialing in this set, but Sutirtha Mukherjee bounces back to pocket the second set 11-7 and now leads 2-0 in the women's singles final against Sreeja Akula.
Sutirtha takes the first game 11-8, but it was a lot closer than the scoreline suggests. Sreeja is known for her temperament under pressure, and it would be foolish to count her out.