Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 12 (ANI): India’s high combined doubles mixture of Manush Shah and Diya Chitale stored their nerves within the decider to pack off Korea’s Republic’s Oh Seunghwan and Kim Seongjin to succeed in the quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Chennai 2026, co-hosted by Ultimate Table Tennis, Sharath Kamal Academy, and Stupa Sports AI with the help of SDAT on the Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University right here on Thursday.
The top-seeded Indian mixture, who just lately received the WTT Contender Muscat 2026, had been pushed to the brink by the Korean qualifiers as they saved three match factors earlier than the house favourites emerged victorious 3-2 (10-12, 11-6, 12-10, 5-11, 12-10) in 42 minutes, as per a press launch from WTT.
They will now face Indian wild playing cards Payas Jain and Syndrela Das, who defeated Kazakhstan’s Iskender Kharki and Sarvinoz Mirkadirova 11-8, 11-6, 11-7 of their first spherical conflict.
Fourth seeds Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade and the younger mixture of Ankur Bhattacharjee and Swastika Ghosh additionally arrange an all-Indian quarterfinal.
Desai and Ghorpade defeated Darius Movileanu and Andreea Dragoman of Romania 3-0 (11-8, 11-4, 11-7) whereas Bhattacharjee and Ghosh beat one other Korean mixture of Park Gyuhyeon and Kim Nayeong 3-2 (11-9, 3-11, 11-8, 6-11, 11-9).
While the combined doubles gamers excelled, it wasn’t a great opening day for the hosts in different classes because the top-seeded males’s doubles mixture of Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah went down 3-1 (12-1, 8-11, 11-5, 11-9) in opposition to Flavien Coton and Thibault Porey of France.
In the ladies’s singles first spherical conflict, 15-year-old Divyanshi Bhowmick put up a great battle in opposition to WTT Feeder Series Vadodara 2026 winner Ryu Hanna of Korea, however ended up on the incorrect finish of a 3-1 (6-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-5) scoreline. (ANI)