India’s top ranked women’s doubles pair Ayhika Mukherjee And Sutirtha Mukherjee in Astana, Kazakhstan on Saturday Asian Table Tennis Championship 2024 By reaching the semi-finals, he secured a historic medal.
Ayhika and Sutirtha are the first Indian women’s pair to win a medal in the Asian Championships. table tennis There will be a pair. In the inaugural edition played in 1952, Gul Nashikwala won the gold medal in women’s doubles with Japan’s Yoshiko Tanaka.
Mukherjee, ranked 15th in the table tennis rankings, defeated Republic of Korea’s provisional pair Kim Nayoung and Lee Yunhae 3-1 (10-12, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8) in the quarterfinals.
Indian table tennis players will face Japan’s world number 33 Miwa Harimoto and Miyu Kihara in the semi-finals on Sunday. Last year at the Asian Games, Ayhika and Sutirtha had created history by winning bronze, India’s first medal in women’s doubles table tennis at the continental Games.
Last year in Tunis, the Mukherjee sisters became the first Indians to win the WTT Contenders women’s doubles title.
Meanwhile, former Commonwealth Games champion Manika Batra She was eliminated after losing her pre-quarterfinal match in women’s singles. The world number 29 Indian table tennis player lost to world number 7 Miwa Harimoto by the score of 3-1 (11-8, 9-11, 11-7, 11-5).
In men’s singles, Manush Shah and Manav Thakkar stunned their higher-ranked South Korean rivals before losing in the round of 16. In the round of 32, 115th-ranked Manush Shah defeated world number 23 South Korean An Jaehyun 3-0 (11-9, 11-5, 11-6).
World number 60 Manav Thakkar defeated world number 14 Jung Woojin 3-2 (5-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9, 11-7). In the round of 16, Shah lost 3-2 (12-14, 11-6, 11-7, 5-11, 8-11) to world No. 11 Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese Taipei, while Thakkar Was defeated by world number 137 Chan Baldwin of Hong Kong, China 3-0 (11-4, 11-4, 11-8).
91st ranked Harmeet Desai lost 3-0 (14-12, 11-7, 11-7) to world number 30 Lim Jonghoon of South Korea in the round of 32 match.
The Indian men’s and women’s teams had earlier won bronze medals in the competition. The Asian Table Tennis Championship 2024 will conclude on Sunday.
