Paris Olympics 2024: India enters Table Tennis quarterfinals as Manika Batra's team beat Romania
Paris Olympics 2024: India on Monday entered quarterfinals of the women’s table tennis team event as Manika Batra led the team to beat Romania 3-2 win at the Paris Olympics.
India led 2-0 before Romania fought back to tie the game at 2-2, but Manika delivered in the decider. In the first doubles match, Sreeja Akula and Archana Kamath defeated Adina Diaconu and Elizabeta Samara 11-9, 12-10, and 11-7.
Manika easily defeated higher-ranked Bernadette Szocs 11-5 11-7 11-7, giving India a comfortable 2-0 lead over their fourth-seeded opponents. India placed eleventh in the competition.
Sreeja lost the second singles match to European champion Samara 2-3 (11-8 4-11 11-7 6-11 8-11), despite winning the first game.
Sreeja's defeat set up a showdown between Archana and Bernadette, who took the first game 11-5, but the Indian won the second 11-8 to restore parity. Bernadette, on the other hand, won the next two games 11-7 11-9 to win the match and force a tiebreaker.
Manika then blanked Adina 3-0 (11-5, 11-9, 11-9) to win the tie for India.
India will face either the United States or Germany in the quarterfinals.
Japan, Poland, France, and Thailand are all on the same side.
Manika and Sreeja made table tennis history last week by becoming the first Indian players to reach the round of 16 in the individual event at the Olympics. The two, however, were unable to a
- PTC NEWS
