Table Tennis
Table Tennis Olympic Qualification Live Updates: Sutirtha Mukherjee, Sharath Kamal, and G Sathiyan qualify for Tokyo Olympics
All the Live Updates from the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Doha that gives chances to Indian table tennis players to qualify for the Olympics.
Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra, and Sutirtha Mukherjee
The Asian Olympic Qualification tournament is underway in Doha. All four paddlers - Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra, Suthirtha Mukherjee have a chance of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics today.
Indian paddlers have to compete only with other South Asian countries for a quota. In women's singles, only 2 entries have been received from South Asia, from Manika and Sutirtha. Thus, India is already assured of one quota as it will go to one of these 2 ladies
Even on the men's side, there are only 3 entries from South Asia – Sharath, Sathiyan and Muhammad Rameez from Pakistan. They are scheduled to play a single round-robin with the winner advancing to Tokyo.
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Live Updates
- 18 March 2021 7:09 AM GMT
Sharath Kamal vs G Sathiyan — Match 1
World No. 32 Sharath Kamal and world No. 37 Sathiyan Gnanansekaran are up against each other in the first match of the South Asia Men's Singles group.
There are only 3 entries from South Asia – the other one being Muhammad Rameez from Pakistan (WR 695). All three are scheduled to play a single round-robin with the winner advancing to Tokyo.
