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Manika Batra celebrating her crew© AFP
Star participant Manika Batra led from the entrance as India prevailed over higher-ranked Romania 3-2 in an exciting tie and made a memorable entry into the quarterfinals of the ladies’s desk tennis crew competitors on the Paris Olympics on Monday. Main 2-0, India noticed Romania struggle again to attract degree at 2-2 however within the decider, Manika delivered for her aspect. Sreeja Akula and Archana Kamath began the proceedings with a 11-9 12-10 11-7 win over Adina Diaconu and Elizabeta Samara in a doubles match.
Manika made brief work of higher-ranked Bernadette Szocs in a 11-5 11-7 11-7 victory as India took a snug 2-0 lead within the tie in opposition to their fourth-seeded opponents. India are seeded eleventh within the competitors.
Within the second singles match nevertheless, issues didn’t go in India’s favour as Sreeja went down 2-3 (11-8 4-11 11-7 6-11 8-11) to European champion Samara after profitable the primary sport.
Sreeja’s defeat paved the way in which for a face-off between Archana and Bernadette and the latter gained the primary sport 11-5, however the Indian bagged the second 11-8 to revive parity. Nonetheless, Bernadette gained the subsequent two video games 11-7 11-9 to clinch the match and ship the tie to the decider.
Manika then blanked Adina 3-0 (11-5 11-9 11-9) to seal the tie in India’s favour.
India can be up in opposition to both the USA or Germany within the quarter-finals.
Japan, Poland, France and Thailand are additionally on the identical aspect of the draw.
Final week, each Manika and Sreeja scripted desk tennis historical past by turning into the primary Indian gamers to achieve the spherical of 16 within the particular person occasion on the Olympics. The 2, nevertheless, couldn’t progress past that stage, dropping to higher-ranked opponents.
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