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Shillong, Apr 24 (PTI) Top seed Manika Batra made a shock exit in the pre-quarterfinals while old warhorse Mouma Das advanced to the last-eight stage of the women’s singles in the Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships here on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Manika lost to Ayhika Mukherjee 3-4 (11-7, 8-11, 4-11, 11-9, 5-11, 13-11, 3-11) to make a premature exit from the tournament. Ayhika made most of the chances that came her way to outsmart her famed opponent.<\/p>\n
Manika was down 1-2 initially against Ayhika but she came back strongly to level the score 2-2 and then 3-3.<\/p>\n
In the decider, Ayhika reeled off winners after winners to score an upset win over her top-seeded opponent.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, five-time national champion Mouma defeated second seed Diya Chitale 4-3 to enter women’s singles quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Picking up a racquet after a three-year hiatus, the 38-year-old Mouma made a remarkable recovery from 0-3 deficit to beat her teenage opponent.<\/p>\n
Trailing 0-3, Mouma took the last four games. She won the fourth game on deuce and that provided her with the impetus to fight back and close out her 18-year-old rival.<\/p>\n
But Diya, despite being in a good position in the fourth, became error-prone at crucial junctures of the game. Mouma, the mother of a two-year-old son, seized those little moments and surged ahead.<\/p>\n
Third-seed Reeth Rishya survived a scare from Sutirtha Mukherjee before winning 4-3. Anusha Kutambale from MP and Takeme Sarkar from RSPB, both unseeded, also entered the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Apart from Manika and Diya, eighth-seed Prapti Sen also failed to advance further.<\/p>\n
Earlier, promising Archana Kamath lost to a tenacious Yashini Sivashankar of Tamil Nadu 3-4 in the round of 32.<\/p>\n
The day also saw some of the men’s seeds fall by the wayside, including fourth-seed Harmeet Desai.<\/p>\n
Manush Shah staved off Amalraj’s threat to win the last two games of the men’s singles while Anirban Ghosh of RSPB thwarted Yashansh Malik of Delhi to win 4-3.<\/p>\n
But, Soumyajit Ghosh shocked Harmeet Desai 4-1 in a one-sided pre-quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
The top two seeds, Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan, advanced to the quarterfinals with identical 4-0 wins over KJ Akash and Deepit Patil respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shillong, Apr 24 (PTI) Top seed Manika Batra made a shock exit in the pre-quarterfinals while old warhorse Mouma Das advanced to the last-eight stage of the women’s singles in the Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships here on Sunday. Manika lost to Ayhika Mukherjee 3-4 (11-7, 8-11, 4-11, 11-9, 5-11, 13-11, 3-11) to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-189555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}