Table Tennis
Asian Cup TT: Sreeja wins; Sharath, Ayhika go down - Highlights
Catch all the highlights from day 1 of the TT Asian Cup in China where six Indian paddlers were in action.
Asian Cup 2025 starts on February 19, 2025 in China.
The TT Asian Cup started on Wednesday in Shenzhen, China where the six Indian players aimed to make their best possible starts.
Senior players like Sreeja Akula, Ayhika Mukherjee, and Yashaswini Ghorpade in women's singles, and Achanta Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, and Manav Thakkar in men's singles were in action in their respective opening group stage matches.
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 19 Feb 2025 2:20 PM GMT
India had only one win on the opening day of the tournament
Sreeja Akula won her match in the morning session but other than that Indian paddlers had to face defeats in the other five matches on this first day of group-stage action.
Today's results:
- 19 Feb 2025 2:17 PM GMT
Yashaswini also faces a straight-game defeat in her first group-stage match
Final Score: Yashaswini Ghodpade (IND) 9-11, 9-11, 5-11 Cheng I-Ching (TPE)
- 19 Feb 2025 12:46 PM GMT
Manav's return lands outside the table on the match point as Lin takes the match
Game-3: Manav Thakkar (IND) 9-11 Lin Yun-Ju (TPE)
- 19 Feb 2025 12:34 PM GMT
Manav similarly drops another game, finds the net on game point
Game-2: Manav Thakkar (IND) 9-11 Lin Yun-Ju (TPE)
- 19 Feb 2025 12:25 PM GMT
Lin takes the opening game very closely as Manav fails to find a return on game point
Game-1: Manav Thakkar (IND) 9-11 Lin Yun-Ju (TPE)
- 19 Feb 2025 12:22 PM GMT
An aggressive start to the match as both players showed wide range of shots
Game-1: Manav Thakkar (IND) 6-6 Lin Yun-Ju (TPE)
- 19 Feb 2025 12:02 PM GMT
Harmeet faces a defeat in the first match of the group stage
Final Score: Harmeet Desai (IND) 5-11, 7-11, 12-10, 6-11 An Jaehyun (KOR)
