TT | Manav Thakkar reaches Junior World’s Quarterfinals in both singles and doubles category

TT | Manav Thakkar reaches Junior World’s Quarterfinals in both singles and doubles category

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Written by: SportsCafe Desk

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Indian Table Tennis player Manav Thakkar has reached the quarter-final stage of both the Men’s singles and doubles category at the 2018 World Junior Championships at Bendigo, Australia, on Saturday. Second seeded Manav Thakkar beat Feng Yi-Hsin of Chinese Taipei in a thrilling match.

India’s Manav Thakkar cruised through to the quarterfinals of the 2018 World Junior Championships at Bendigo in Australia on Saturday. He defeated his Chinese Taipei opponent Feng Yi-Hsin of 11-7, 8-11, 11-4, 9-11, 14-12, 11-1 at the pre-quarter final stage.

In the tournament Thakkar has already defeated Canada’s Jeremy Hazin 11-9, 11-6, 11-3, 11-5 after which he took on Yi-Hsin. Now, he will play China’s Xiang Peng in the quarter-finals later on Saturday. If Thakkar reaches the Semifinals, then he will play the winner of the quarter-final between Japan’s Yukiya Uda and China’s Xu Yingbin.

But it was not a rewarding day for Manush Shah and Jeet Chandra who made an exit from the tournament as they lost their first round encounters. Chandra lost to Romanian Cristian Plelta 8-11, 5-11, 8-11, 8-11 while Shah went down to Singapore’s Pang Yew En Koen in a hard-fought round of 32 match 11-6, 9-11, 11-4, 5-11 4-11, 7-11.

On the other hand, in the men’s doubles category the Indian pair of Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah defeated Argentina’s Martin Bentancor and Santiago Lorenzo to enter the quarter-finals, taking the match 12-14, 11-8, 11-6, 11-13, 11-7. Next they face Tapie’s Feng Yi-Hsin and Li Hsin-Yang in the quarter-finals.

The other Indian doubles pair of Jeet Chandra and Snehit Suravajjula lost in a close encounter against the second seed pairing of Cristian Pleta and Rares Sipos from Romania 11-7, 11-3, 9-11, 9-11, 12-10.

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