Table Tennis
ITTF World C'ships: Diya Chitale, Manush Shah win, Sreeja Akula exits in R128 - Highlights
Catch all the Highlights from the opening day of the 2025 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Qatar
Sreeja Akula in action at the 2025 ITTF World Championships. (Photo Credit: JioCinema)
Indian paddlers were in action at the first round of the 2025 Table Tennis World Championships in Doha, Qatar on Saturday.
Sreeja Akula, Diya Chitale, and Manush Shah played the singles round of 128 matches, whereas the men's doubles duo of Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah were in action in the round of 64.
In women's doubles, both Indian pairs of Diya / Yashaswini Ghodpade and Ayhika Mukherjee / Sutirtha Mukherjee began their campaign in the first round.
As it happened:
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- 17 May 2025 9:51 AM GMT
The Indian pair is just five points away from the second round
Game-5: Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) 6-4 Yilmaz-Harac (TUR)
- 17 May 2025 9:46 AM GMT
Yilmaz's lob shot lands outside the table as Indian pair takes the match on level terms
Game-4: Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) 11-9 Yilmaz-Harac (TUR)
- 17 May 2025 9:43 AM GMT
A few unforced errors on the net from the Turkish pair, giving a small lead to the Indian duo
Game-4: Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) 8-6 Yilmaz-Harac (TUR)
- 17 May 2025 9:37 AM GMT
Indian pair again trails in the match as they fail to return an intercepting push on game point
Game-3: Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) 10-12 Yilmaz-Harac (TUR)
- 17 May 2025 9:35 AM GMT
The third game goes into deuce as Sutirtha's backhand return goes behind the table
Game-3: Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) 10-10 Yilmaz-Harac (TUR)
- 17 May 2025 9:30 AM GMT
The match is tightly poised as no one is getting a lead of more than 1 point
Game-3: Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) 6-6 Yilmaz-Harac (TUR)
- 17 May 2025 9:26 AM GMT
Harac finds the net as the Indian duo makes a comeback in the match, levelling the game score
After two games:
Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) 4-11, 11-9 Yilmaz-Harac (TUR)
- 17 May 2025 9:19 AM GMT
The 'Mukherjee Sisters' are currently in action for the first round
The star Indian duo of Ayhika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee is on a horrid run of six consecutive losses this year, and they will be hoping to break that today.
They are taking on a lower-ranked Turkish pair in the round of 64.
- 17 May 2025 8:25 AM GMT
First Up: WD - Diya-Yashaswini (IND) Vs Magdieva-Erkebaeva (UZB) at 2:30 PM
The young indian duo of Yashaswini Ghodpade and Diya Chitale, ranked 16th in the world, had two quarterfinal outings this year as a pair at WTT Star Contender Chennai and WTT Contender Tunis.
They will begin their campaign against a lesser known Uzbek pair who haven't played a WTT Tournament in the last one year.
This will be the first meeting between the two pairs.
- 17 May 2025 8:15 AM GMT
Here is the schedule for the Indian paddlers in action today
There will be six Indian matches on Saturday, with three each in the singles and doubles categories
- WD - Diya-Yashaswini (IND) Vs Magdieva-Erkebaeva (UZB) at 2:30 PM
- WD - Ayhika-Sutirtha (IND) Vs Yilmaz-Harac (TUR) at 2:30 PM
- MD - Manav-Manush (IND) Vs Hribar-Kozul (SLO) at 3:10 PM
- WS - Sreeja Akula (IND) Vs Suthasini Sawettabut (THA) at 3:50 PM
- MS - Manush Shah (IND) Vs Tiago Apolonia (POR) at 7:40 PM
- WS - Diya Chitale (IND) Vs Sofia-Xuan Zhang (ESP) at 8:20 PM
