Asian Table Tennis: Indian team’s journey ends with bronze medal

pyeongchangThe Indian team had to settle for a bronze medal after losing in the semi-finals of the Asian Table Tennis Championship 2023. Commonwealth Games champion Sharath Kamal lost 0-3 to Chuang Chih-yuan in the competition being played in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea. had to face. In the second match, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran also failed to overcome his challenge and lost 0–3 to Lin Yun-Ju. In a closely fought match, Harmeet Desai performed well but lost 1-3 to Cao Cheng-Jui.

The Indian team on Monday beat Singapore 3-0 to seal a medal berth in the last four. Earlier, the Indian women’s team consisting of Manika Batra, Ahika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee will play in the 5-6 position play-off match on Tuesday. They lost 0-3 to Thailand to finish sixth. The Indian trio had registered a 3-2 win over Singapore in the play-off for the 5-8 positions on the same day. Indian women’s team’s medal hopes ended after they went down 0-3 to Japan in the quarter-finals on Monday.

In mixed doubles, the Indian pair of Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran had lost 2-3 to Thailand’s Phakopoom Sanguansin and Orwan Paranang in the round of 32 on Tuesday. Another Indian pair of Harmeet Desai and Sreeja Akula lost 0-3 to top seeds Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata of Japan in the Round of 32. The Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023 was also a qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Quota places were to be awarded to the winners of the men’s and women’s team and mixed doubles events.