A file photograph of India’s Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
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The Indian desk tennis pair of Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran had been surprised within the quarter-finals by a Malaysian pair of Javen Choong and Karen Lyne ranked 153rd on the planet.
Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran failed to safe a Paris Olympics 2024 quota from the World Mixed Doubles Table Tennis Olympic Qualification event in Havirov, Czechia on Friday.
The Indian desk tennis gamers, ranked 18th within the newest ITTF combined doubles world rankings, went down 4-1 (11-9, 11-9, 11-9, 7-11,11-8) in opposition to Malaysia’s Javen Choong and Karen Lyne, ranked 153rd, within the quarter-finals. The eighth-seeded Batra-Sathiyan acquired a bye within the spherical of 16 of their knockout bracket.
This was the Indian duo’s second and final probability of securing a Paris Olympics quota on the World Mixed Doubles Table Tennis Olympic Qualifiers after struggling a quarter-final loss within the first knockout spherical on Thursday.
In the primary knockout spherical, Sathiyan and Batra misplaced 4-1 (7-11, 10-12, 11-9, 6-11, 6-11) to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea pair Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, the 21st seeds, within the quarter-finals.
Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong ultimately went on to win their knockout bracket and obtained a desk tennis quota for his or her nation on the Paris Olympics.
India have already secured Paris 2024 quotas for the ladies’s and males’s groups primarily based on rankings, which additionally grants Indian desk tennis gamers two quotas every within the males’s and ladies’s singles occasions.
The Czechia meet was the ultimate qualifying occasion for the combined doubles desk tennis competitors on the Paris 2024 Olympics. Quotas in combined doubles occasions for the Paris Olympics may also be obtained by means of rankings.
The 5 highest-ranked eligible pairs [not already qualified and from a country different to those already qualified] within the combined doubles world rating, as of May 7, will receive one combined doubles quota place. Manika Batra-G Sathiyan are presently ranked 18th.