Table Tennis
World Table Tennis Team C'Ships: India women beat Spain 3-2, men takes 3-0 win over New Zealand in final group tie -HIGHLIGHTS
Catch all the highlights Indian men's and women's teams' final group-stage fixtures at the World Table Tennis Team Championships in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday.
Manika Batra (Left), Ayhika Mukherjee and Sreeja Akula (Right) lead Indian women TT team
Indian men's and women's team played their final group-stage tie against New Zealand and Spain respectively at the World Table Tennis Team Championships in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday.
The women team led by Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula and Ayhika Mukherjee pulls off a great comeback 3-2 victory after trailing 0-2 as Manika and Sreeja lost their respective first matches of the tie.
They hold on to the composure and makes a solid comeback in the tie and booked their place in the knockout round with a second place finish in the group stage behind China.
Whereas, men's team took a comfortable 3-0 win over New Zealand with straight game wins from Harmeet Desai and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and a close win Manush Shah.
As it happened:
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- 20 Feb 2024 8:17 AM GMT
An unlucky deflection from the net for Maria, ball goes out
Game-2: Sreeja 5-4 Maria
- 20 Feb 2024 8:12 AM GMT
Maria takes the first game after Sreeja caught net in return
Game-1: Sreeja 9-11 Maria
- 20 Feb 2024 8:11 AM GMT
Sreeja edged it wide while trying to return, Scores level
Game-1: Sreeja 8-8 Maria
- 20 Feb 2024 7:50 AM GMT
Here is the lineup for the final group game against Spain
Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula going with 2 matches while Ayhika will play one match.
