Tokyo Olympic-returned Indian paddlers Sathiyan Gunnasekaran and Manika Batra entered the pre-quarterfinals of their respective activities at the WTT Contender Budapest 2021 match here.
While Gunnasekaran beat France's Can Akkuzu 3-1 (14-12 11-5 7-11 11-four) inside the guys's singles opening round, Manika got the better of Sabina Winter of Germany three-2 (8-eleven 11-7 eleven-6 15-thirteen eleven-five).
In the subsequent round, Gunnasekaran may be up towards Niagol Stoyanov of Italy, while Manika will play Italy's Giorgia Piccolin.
Among other Indians in fray, Harmeet Desai additionally advanced to the guys's singles 2d round, beating Csaba Andras of Hungary three-2 (6-11 7-eleven 13-11 11-7 11-4), while
Manav Thakkar beat Pavel Platanov of Belarus three-zero (12-10 11-nine eleven-6).
Harmeet will Dang Qiu of Germany inside the next spherical, whilst Manav may be up against Kirill Skachkov of Russia.
Among different Indian women inside the competition, Archana Kamath additionally entered the second one spherical with a three-2 (eleven-eight 11-9 6-eleven 5-eleven eleven-nine) win over Yana Noskova of Russia.
Archana will subsequent play any other Russian in Mariia Tailakova.
Sreeja Akula is the opposite Indian woman paddler to move into the round of 16 with a three-2 (11-8 6-11 14-12 2-11 11-7) win over Linda Bergstrom of Sweden.
She will next face Barbora Balazova of Slovakia.
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