Sutirtha Mukherjee (L) and Ayhika Mukherjee in motion within the ladies’s doubles semifinal match of desk tennis on the nineteenth Asian Video games, in Hangzhou, China. File
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India wrapped up their marketing campaign on the Asian Desk Tennis Championships with three medals, together with a historic bronze within the ladies’s doubles, after Ayhika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee’s dream run ended within the semifinals in Kazakhstan on Sunday (October 13, 2024).
The world No. 15 pair, who surprised the reigning world champions from China en path to a bronze on the Asian Video games final yr, fell to Japan’s Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara, 4-11, 9/11, 8-11, in beneath half-hour of their last-four conflict.
Previous to that, the Indian duo had defeated South Korea’s Kim Nayeong and Lee Eunhye within the quarterfinals to safe India’s first-ever ladies’s doubles medal on the Asian meet.
The Indian ladies’s crew had earlier clinched a historic bronze within the crew occasion.
The trio of Manika Batra, Ayhika Mukherjee, and Sutirtha Mukherjee secured the nation’s first-ever medal within the ladies’s crew class for the reason that competitors started in 1972, although they finally misplaced 1-3 to Japan within the semifinals.
Within the males’s class, India secured one other bronze, their third straight within the event, after the crew of Achanta Sharath Kamal, Manav Thakkar, and Harmeet Desai fell 0-3 to Chinese language Taipei within the semifinals.
In males’s singles, Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah bowed out within the pre-quarterfinals.
World No. 60 Thakkar, who had earlier shocked world No. 14 Jang Woojin of South Korea, was defeated by Hong Kong’s Baldwin Chan, 4-11 4-11 8-11.
In the meantime, Manush put up a tricky combat towards Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese language Taipei and took two video games earlier than narrowly shedding 8-11 5-11 11-7 11-6 12-14.
Revealed – October 13, 2024 01:30 pm IST
