WTT Contender Muscat 2022 | Manika Batra advances to round of 16, mixed doubles teams progress too

Batra's compatriot Sreeja Akula, on the other hand, was defeated 2-3 by French Olympian Jia Nan Yuan (11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-8).

Batra and her partner Sathiyan Gnanasekaran advanced to the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles after obtaining a walkover in their round-of-16 match against Kirill Skachkov and Olga Vorobeva. Next up for the Indian duo will be Nandor Ecseki and Leila Imre of Hungary.

With a 3-2 (11-9, 14-12, 11-2) win over Turkey's Ibrahim Gunduz and Sibel Altinkaya, Archana Kamath and Manav Thakkar advanced to the final eight of mixed doubles as well. In the meantime, G Sathiyan and Manika Batra's men's and women's doubles campaigns also cut short.

Peng Wang-Wei and Chuang Chih-Yuan of Chinese Taipei defeated G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai 2-3 (7-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-13, 11-9) in the round of 16 of men's doubles.

In the quarterfinals on Thursday, Peng-Chuang will meet another Indian pair, Manush Shah and Manav Thakkar. Shah-Thakkar advanced after defeating Eric Jouti and Vitor Ishiy of Brazil 3-2 (11-7, 3-11, 11-6, 7-11, 12-14).

Batra and Kamath also exited the round of 16 in the women's doubles after losing 0-3 against Hungary's Leila Imre and Mercedes Nagyvaradi (11-7, 11-9, 11-6).