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India ladies’s desk tennis crew loses in QFs vs Germany© AFP
Archana Kamath gave a short resistance however that was not sufficient as India misplaced 1-3 to technically superior Germany within the ladies’s desk tennis crew occasion quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. Indian desk tennis marketing campaign ended with the loss. The Indian duo of Sreeja Akula and Archana misplaced the opening doubles match 5-11 11-8 10-12 6-11 to the German pair of Yuan Wan and Xiona Shan. Sreeja and Archana have been holding the fort until the third sport however they misplaced it in deuce. Thereafter, they misplaced the match.
Within the first singles, star Indian Manika Batra was not at her finest as she gained the primary sport however misplaced the following three (11-8 5-11 7-11 5-11) towards Annett Kaufmann as Germany took 2-0 lead within the tie.
It was at this level that Archana gave India a glimmer of hope as she held off Germany cost briefly with a 19-17 1-11 11-5 11-9 win over Xiona Shan within the second singles.
However within the third singles, Kaufmann blanked Sreeja 11-6 11-7 11-7 to seal the tie for Germany and e-book a semifinal berth.
On Monday, the Indian ladies’s crew comprising Manika, Sreeja and Archana had prevailed over higher-ranked Romania 3-2 in an exciting tie to enter the quarterfinals.
On Tuesday, the Indian males’s crew led by veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal had suffered a 0-3 loss to mighty China within the pre-quarterfinals.
Each Manika and Sreeja had scripted desk tennis historical past by changing into the primary Indian gamers to succeed in the spherical of 16 within the particular person occasion on the Olympics. The 2, nonetheless, couldn’t progress past that stage, dropping to higher-ranked opponents.
The Paris Video games marked the primary time that India competed within the crew occasion on the Olympics. The lads’s and girls’s crew occasions in desk tennis have been launched on the 2008 Beijing Video games.
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