Astana, Kazakhstan, Oct 13: India wrapped up their marketing campaign on the Asian Desk Tennis Championships with three medals, together with a historic bronze within the girls’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 12 months, fell to Japan’s Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara, 4-11, Sept. 11, 8-11, in below 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 girls’s doubles medal on the Asian meet.
The Indian girls’s group had earlier clinched a historic bronze within the group occasion.
The trio of Manika Batra, Ayhika Mukherjee, and Sutirtha Mukherjee secured the nation’s first-ever medal within the girls’s group class for the reason that competitors started in 1972, although they ultimately misplaced 1-3 to Japan within the semifinals.
Within the males’s class, India secured one other bronze, their third straight within the match, after the group 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 troublesome combat towards Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese language Taipei and took two video games earlier than narrowly dropping 8-11 5-11 11-7 11-6 12-14. (Businesses)