World Table Tennis Team C'ship: Indian women's team goes down fighting against China - HIGHLIGHTS
Despite Ayhika Mukherjee and Sreeja Akula defeating world number one and two, India lost to China in the World TT Team C'ships group tie.
Ayhika Mukherjee and Sreeja Akula won their respective women's singles matches against China on Friday.
World Table Tennis Team Championship: The Indian women's table tennis team put up a brilliant show against China but failed to create history. Despite leading 2-1 after three matches in the tie, India lost 2-3 after Ayhika Mukherjee, who in her first match defeated world no. 1 Sun Yingsha, lost the decider against Wang Manyu.
Sreeja Akula, meanwhile, defeated world no. 2 Wang Yidi but Manika Batra's two losses meant India had to deal with the defeat.
As it happened:
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This was the first-ever loss for World number one Sun Yingsha at any team event.
China has never lost two matches in World Team Championships since 2010.
A mighty fight from the Indian girls against the best team in the world.
A brilliant fight from Ayhika but Wang Manyu wins the deciding match in straight games to win the tie for the Chinese team.
Indian bench won't be happy with this as Ayhika loses another close battle by 11-13 as Wang Manyu pulls China closer to the victory.
A very close match between Wang and Ayhika. Ayhika surrendered her lead as the experienced Chinese takes the first game 11-9.
The onus lies on Ayhika Mukherjee as she takes on world number four Wang Manyu in the deciding match of the tie.
Manika Batra loses 11-9 in the third game and we are heading into the deciding match.
Manika wins the third game 13-11 against Yingsha and she has a chance to win it for India in this very match only. A good show of defence from Manika against world number one resulted in winning the game.
Sun Yingsha comes back stronger into the match after her loss to Ayhika and bulldozes past Manika to win the second game 11-6.
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