India confirmed two more medals

Indian table tennis players confirmed two other medals Asian Table Tennis Games 2021 In Doha, Qatar, qualifying for the men’s doubles semifinals on Sunday.

Tokyo Olympics Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran won Singapore Zhe Yu Chew and Kun Ting Beh 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 12-10) between the last eight semi-finals.

Meanwhile, Harmeet Desai and Manav Thakkar also made it into the top four when he dropped a pair of first seeds Noshad Alamiyan and Nima Alamian From Iran in live games (12-10, 11-5, 11-6).

They win bronze even if they lose their semi-finals.

The chance for the full India final is also open as the two pairs will not face each other in Monday’s semi-finals.

Harmeet Desai and Manav Thakkar meet in South Korea Woojin Jang and Jonghoon Lim while Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan receive the Japanese Yukiya Uda and Shunsuke Togami in the final four.

India has already won bronze in the men’s team competition.

However, unlike the duel competition, the results did not go in India’s favor in individual events.

Four-time Olympic champion Sharath Kamal reached the men’s singles semifinals but won a former world bronze medal Lee Sangsu 0-3 from South Korea (8-11, 8-11, 9-11).

Meanwhile Sanil Shetty and Manav Thakkar could not go past 32 rounds, G Sathiyan fell early Kazuhiro Yoshimura From Japan. Sathiyan lost his match 1-3 (9-11, 11-6, 6-11, 9-11).

The challenge for women ends

The Indian female players running in the race also ended on Sunday.

Singles, Archana Kamath, Sutirtha Mukerjee, Ayhika Mukherjee, Sreeja Akula everyone suffered losses in 32 matches.

The women’s double team Sutirtha Mukerjee and Ayhika Mukherjee also withdrew from the competition in the semi-finals and dropped 2-3 (4-11, 5-11, 11-4, 11-7, 8-11) to the Japanese. Miyu Nagasaki and Minami Ando.