{"id":216697,"date":"2023-05-22T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=216697"},"modified":"2023-05-22T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T18:54:34","slug":"sharath-kamal-sathiyan-manika-win-opening-matches-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/sharath-kamal-sathiyan-manika-win-opening-matches-at-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan, Manika win opening matches at World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Durban ,21 May (PTI): India veterans Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan made a winning start at the World Table Tennis Championships here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also winning her opening women&#8217;s singles match is Manika Batra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 56th ranked Indian defeated world no. 170 David Serdaroglu of Austria 11-8, 9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-6 to advance to the round of 64.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sathiyan beat England&#8217;s Tom Jarvis 4-3 (11-9 11-8 7-11 11-2 15-13 13-11 11-6) in another men&#8217;s singles contest to begin his campaign on a positive note. The other Indian in the singles competition, Manika blanked Lynda Loghraibi of Algeria 4-0 (11-1 11-3 11-2 11-5).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manush Shah and Harmeet Desai had lost their opening matches on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sreeja Akula had won her round of 128 clash against Nicole Arlia of Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban ,21 May (PTI): India veterans Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan made a winning start at the World Table Tennis Championships here on Sunday. Also winning her opening women&#8217;s singles match is Manika Batra. The 56th ranked Indian defeated world no. 170 David Serdaroglu of Austria 11-8, 9-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-6 to advance to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216697","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=216697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}