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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:
Live Updates
- 5 Aug 2022 9:50 AM GMT
Reeth is being completely dominated by the Singaporean here
Reeth is finding obvious difficulty here against the World No. 16 as Feng rushes to take the first game, 11-2!
- 5 Aug 2022 9:49 AM GMT
We also have Manika Batra, Reeth Tennison and Sreeja Akula in action!
Back-to-back matches lined up for able-bodied tennis as Manika Batra, Reeth Tennison and Sreeja Akula will feature in women's singles action!
World No. 111 Reeth Tennison will take on Singapore's World No. 16 Tianwei Feng
Manika Batra, the defending champion will take on Australia's Minhyung Jee
National Champion Sreeja Akula will have to take on Charlotte Carey of Wales!
- 5 Aug 2022 9:39 AM GMT
It's a close miss for Raj as he loses the semis
Raj misses out on confirming a medal very narrowly as he loses to Nasiru Sule in a closely-contested encounter, 7-11, 11-8, 11-4, 11-7
He will be fighting for a medal in the bronze medal clash!
- 5 Aug 2022 9:36 AM GMT
Meanwhile, Sonal is also in action against Ifechukwude Christiana Ikpeoyi!
Sonal is making good progress as she bags the first game, 8-11.
In the second game, Sonal is trailing 7-3
- 5 Aug 2022 9:33 AM GMT
Sheer dominance from Bhavina Patel as she confirms a medal on her debut at the CWG!
Make way for para TT player Bhavina Patel as she confirms a medal for India in the debut edition of para TT at CWG, winning 3-0 against Sue Bailey of England with a mirror score of 11-6, 11-6, 11-6!
On a roll!
- 5 Aug 2022 9:24 AM GMT
Para TT star Raj Alagar is also in semi-final action against a Nigerian athlete!
Raj Alagar is also hungry for a medal as he takes the first game, 11-7.
The Nigerian snatches the second game, 11-8!
It's going pretty close here!
