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Indian men beat Tunisia; women handed walkover

Indian men beat Tunisia; women handed walkover

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The Indian men’s table tennis team started their campaign at the 2026 ITTF World Team Championships with a 3-0 win over Tunisia in London on Tuesday. The Gujarat trio of Manav Thakkar, Manush Shah, and Harmeet Desai all won their respective singles matches in their Group 7 clash in Stage 1B. Shah was the only Indian to drop a game in the contest, beating Essid Wasim 3-1. Thakkar and Desai, meanwhile, won their respective matches 3-0 to help India storm past Tunisia in the tie. Earlier in the day, the Indian women’s team were handed a 3-0 win after Uganda gave them a walkover. The Indian team comprising of Manika Batra, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale, and Syndrela Das weren’t required to play any match. The Indian men’s team will next take on Slovakia on Wednesday in their second group match, while the women will go up against Ukraine. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information …

Confidence renewed, Yashaswini Ghorpade aims to scale greater heights

Confidence renewed, Yashaswini Ghorpade aims to scale greater heights

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At the start of this year, Yashaswini Ghorpade felt stuck. For the last few months, her results felt stagnant. She dropped from No 2 in the women’s singles table tennis national rankings to No 8. A paddler who predominantly thrives on her backhand, she was working on getting her forehand receives and attacks up at the same level. It eventually ended up in causing more confusion in her natural gameplay, leaving her confidence at an all-time low. But come the 87th Senior National Table Tennis Championships in Indore last month, Ghorpade put all the inhibitions behind her to be crowned the national champion for the first time in her budding career. She beat Olympian Sreeja Akula in the quarter-finals, the young Suhana Saini in the semi-finals, and staved off a stiff challenge from the teenaged Syndrela Das to lift her maiden title. “I had a two-week training camp in Bengaluru which helped,” said Ghorpade in a conversation with The Bridge. That camp with long-time coach Anshuman Roy proved to be a boon for Ghorpade. The …