Asian Table Tennis Championships: Indian women's team tops group Stage - LIVE Blog,
Indian women's team led by Sutirtha Mukherjee topped the group stage at the Asian Table Tennis Championships 2021.
Sutirtha Mukherjee (Source: India Today)
India women began their campaign at the 2021 Asian Table Tennis Championships in Doha with 3-0 wins over Jordan and Nepal and topped their group on Tuesday.
Indian men's team will directly play quarterfinals and take on Iran who will take the place of defending champions China who skipped the biennial meet.
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Sreeja has picked up a lot of momentum at the recently concluded WTT Star Contender in Doha and will begin her campaign against Nepal in the first match of the India vs Nepal tie.
The second and final group tie will begin from 10:00 PM IST and the Indian women will hope to continue their dominating run and book themselves a spot in the next round!
Not dropping a single game or a match, the Indian women's team led by Sutirtha Mukherjee, Archana Kamath, Ayhika Mukherjee proved to be all-too powerful for the 96th ranked Jordan side and clinched the first Group I tie, 3-0!
What a start for India!
What a phenomenal performance from Ayhika Mukherjee! She clinches the match and Game 3 in 11-1 as well!
Mukherjee only conceded 9 points overall in the match, phew!
Ayhika Mukherjee is in sharp form here and she only allows her opponent to win one point in the second blink-and-you-miss game!
Mukherjee takes Game 2 easy-peasy, 11-1!
Shifting gears when necessary, Mukherjee steps it up to get the first game 11-7! Onto the second!
Mukherjee's lead is threatened as Aldmaisy attacks the Ayhika serve. Mukherjee leads 8-6 in the opening game!
Ayhika Mukherjee fires away as she begins and takes a 6-3 lead!
2019 Commonwealth Championships gold medallist, Ayhika Mukherjee will now clash against Yara Aldmaisy in the third rubber of the tie against Jordan! Let's go!