WTT Star Contender: Sharath Kamal Loss in Pre-Quarter, Indian Challenge and

The World Table Tennis (WTT) star contender lost 9–11, 8–11, 6–11 to world number 12 Dimitrij Ovcharov in the men’s singles following a superb running by paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal. Pre-quarterfinal match on Wednesday. Sharath, who surprised world number 16 Germany’s Patrick Franziska in his final match, started the game well and gave a tough fight to his relatively high-ranked German opponent as the first two games of the match before the London Olympics bronze neck and The medallion had moved in his favor as he had gone to the neck.

The German led 2–0 ahead and wrapped up the match to enter the quarter-finals.

With Sharath losing, India’s participation in the tournament also ended. Earlier, Gyanasekaran Sathiyan and Manika Batra entered the second round in their respective singles category.

In the men’s singles first qualifying round, Anthony Amalraj suffered a 6–11, 11–9, 3–11, 7–11 loss against Japan’s Mizuki Okawa, while Harmeet Desai was 10–12 to Yiven Prinsepa of Ukraine. , 9– lost 11, 11–13, 9–11 scoreline.

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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 Korea’s Heing Kim in a hard-fought contest and defeated Ayuka 5–11, 11–13, 7-11 against Irina. Had to lift. Siobanu of Romania.