TT Player Manika Crashes Out Of Tokyo Olympics After Losing In Women’s Singles 3rd Round
Mumbai: Indian table tennis player Manika Batra’s Tokyo Olympics campaign ended after she lost in the women’s singles third round to Austria’s Sofia Polcanova.
Batra lost the match in straight games (8-11, 2-11, 5-11, 7-11) in 27 minutes.
Batra and Polcanova exchanged some great points to start the match but it was the Austrian who won against Manika’s rally and took the first set 11-8.
The second set belonged to Sofia right from the start who cleverly neutralized Batra’s reverse spin and took the round in the blink of an eye. The 11-2 set lasted just 4 minutes.
Batra’s lethal lead was missing in the third round against a tight defence of Austria as she failed to compete again and her opponent won the set 11-5.
In the next one, the Indian tried to delay the inevitable by playing some quality long rallies but the end result remained the same. Polcanova claimed the set 11–7 and advanced to the next round.
Earlier, Sutirtha Mukherjee had also crashed out of the women’s singles event after losing her Round 2 match against Fu Yu of Portugal.
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