India’s G Sathiyan beat Russia’s Vladimir Sidorenko 4-0 to enter the boys’s singles third spherical of the World Table Tennis Championships right here.
The world quantity 37 from India defeated his rival quantity 179 11-9, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 within the sixty fourth spherical. Sathiyan will subsequent face world quantity 17 Aruna Qadri of Nigeria within the thirty second spherical.
India’s top-order participant, world quantity 30 Sharath Kamal, suffered a disappointing defeat within the opening spherical on Tuesday.
However, Sharath can nonetheless make an influence in males’s doubles with Sathiyan and blended doubles with Archana Kamath.
Sharath and Archana defeated Algeria’s Sami Kherouf and Katia Kesasi 3-0 to enter the spherical of 32.
Sathiyan and Manika Batra obtained byes within the first spherical and performed their thirty second blended doubles match towards Puerto Rico’s Adriana Diaz and Brian Afanador.
In ladies’s doubles, Manika and Archana obtained a bye within the first spherical.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
