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Table Tennis star Gnanasekaran Sathiyan admitted that the loss he suffered at the Tokyo Olympics has made him stronger and a better player. Since then, he won the men’s singles title at the ITTF Czech Open, in August, and also a men’s doubles title alongside Harmeet Desai at the WTT Contender Tunis.

Indian women’s pair of Manika Batra and Archana Kamath claimed top honours at the WTT Contender Lasko with an inspiring win over Puerto Rican duo of Melanie Diaz and Adriana Diaz in the title clash. This was Manika Batra’s second WTT Contender win after the triumph in Budapest, in August.

Indian Table Tennis star Soumyajit Ghosh won his opening match of the qualifiers of the ongoing 2021 UTT Contender Lasko on Monday, and has progressed to the next round. India’s top stars Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra will begin their campaigns from the main draw itself.

The men’s doubles pair of Gnanasekaran Sathiyan and Manika Batra claimed top honours at the 2021 WTT World Contender Tunis, in Turkey, on Saturday. The Indian duo defeated the French pair of Emmanuel Lebesson and Alexandre Cassin in the final with scores of 11-9, 4-11, 11-9, 11-5.