Defending champion Sreeja Akula of RBI claimed a second successive women’s singles crown after beating Sutirtha Mukherjee of West Bengal 4-2 in the 84th UTT Inter-State Senior National Table Tennis Championships here on Monday. Women’s singles: Final: Sreeja Akula bt Sutirtha Mukherjee 9-11, 14-12, 11-7, 13-11, 6-11, 12-10. Semi-finals: Sutirtha Mukherjee bt Ayhika Mukherjee 12-10, 11-7, 11-5, 12-10; Sreeja Akula …
Harmeet, ranked 141 in the world, staved off a tough challenge from Englishman Tom Jarvis, while Shetty won his first round match quite comfortably against countryman Yashansh Malik. Also moving into the main draw was the Japanese pair of Mizuki Oikawa and Miyu Nagasaki who defeated India’s Ronit Bhanja and Sutirtha Mukherjee 3-0 in round two of qualifying. In the …
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