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ITTF World C'ships: Manika Batra, Manav Thakkar advance to round of 64, Sathiyan exits - Highlights
Catch all the highlights from the second day of the 2025 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Manika Batra. (Photo credit: Jio Cinema)
The second batch of Indian paddlers competed in the first round of the 2025 Table Tennis World Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday.
Five Indian paddlers, including Manika Batra, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, and Manav Thakkar, were in action at the singles round of 128 matches. In contrast, the men's doubles duo of Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai were in action for the round of 64 match.
In mixed doubles, both Indian pairs of Diya / Manush and Yashaswini / Harmeet began their campaign in the first round.
As it happened:
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- 18 May 2025 6:15 AM GMT
Here is the schedule for the Indian paddlers in action on day 2
There will be eight Indian matches on the day, having five in the singles category and three in the doubles category, starting at 12:30 PM IST
Here is the schedule:
- XD: - Manush-Diya (IND) Vs Mehdi-Nasri (ALG) at 12:30 PM IST
- XD: - Harmeet-Yashaswini (IND) Vs Poret-Hochart (FRA) at 12:30 PM IST
- MD: - Sathiyan-Harmeet (IND) Vs Maciej-Ursu (AUT-MDA) at 3:10 PM IST
- WS: - Manika Batra (IND) Vs Fatimo Bello (NGA) at 3:50 PM IST
- MS: - Ankur Bhattacharjee (IND) Vs Lam Siu Hang (HKG) at 4:30 PM IST
- MS: - Manav Thakkar (IND) Vs Timothy Choi (NZL) at 4:30 PM IST
- MS: - Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) Vs Thibault Poret (FRA) at 10:20 PM IST
- WS: - Yashaswini Ghodpade (IND) Vs Jia Nan Yuan (FRA) at 11:00 PM IST
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