Ace paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra made their campaign debut in WTT Star Contender Doha on a winning note and advanced to the second round of their singles category on Monday. Melbourne Commonwealth Games champion Sharath Kamal was seen struggling in the early stages of the game as he landed in the first game against Brian Afanador. The world number 32 achieved good momentum and beat his opponent 8–11, 11–8, 11–7, 11–1 to give his opponent no other chance. The Indian paddlers will take on world number 16 Patrick Franziska of Germany in the next round on Tuesday.
World number 37 Sathiyan was also 0-2 behind in the match. However, he made a notable comeback with a counter-attack and made a sensational comeback against his rival France’s Emmanuel Lebson 9–11, 7-11, 11–7, 11–4, 11–4. First round of men’s singles event.
Sathiyan will now have a tough task in the next round as he faces World No. 5 Japanese paddler Tomokaju Harimoto.
In the women’s singles opening round, Commonwealth Games gold medalist Batra won 11–5, 11–9, 11–9 in straight sets to advance to the next round against Chinese Taipei’s Hsien-Tzu Cheng. Grew, where he would be challenged. From Japan’s world number 3 Mima Ito.
Sathiyan, Sharath Kamal and Batra entered the tournament in singles draws. The second round matches will be held on Tuesday.
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Earlier in the first qualifying round of the men’s singles category, Anthony Amalraj lost 6–11, 11–9, 3–11, 7–11 against Mizuki Okawa of Japan, while Harmeet Desai was 10 to Ukraine’s Yiven Prinshupa. -12, 9- lost 11, 11-13, 9-11 scoreline.
While in the women’s singles qualifiers Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ahika Mukherjee could not progress to the third round. Sutirtha lost 11–9, 11–6, 5–11, 9–11, 9–11 to Heoyong Kim of Korea in a hard-fought contest and beat Ayuka 5–11, 11–13, 7-11 against Irina Siobanu. Romania suffered from defeat.
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