The Indian men's team secured a comfortable 3-0 victory over Chile to open its World Table Tennis Team Championships campaign on a winning note in Busan on Saturday. (More Sports News)
Star Indian paddler Sharath Kamal, ranked 95, started off the proceedings in dominant fashion, racing to a 11-5 11-🍌8 11-6 win over world numb𒆙er 53 Nicholas Burgos.
India's top-ranked paddler and reigni🤡ng national champion Harmeet Desai continued t💎he momentum, beating the lowly-ranked Gustavo Gomez for a facile 11-8 11-7 11-6 win.
G Sathiyan was stretched in the first game💫 by Olivares Felipe but the Indian pad🧸dler battled it out to seal the tie with a 12-10 11-8 11-8 victory.
The win has taken India (2 points) to thi𒁃rd position in Group 3 behind South Korea (4 points) and Chile (3 points), who have played two ties each.
The Indian ▨men's team will take on Poland on Sunday followed by South Korea on Monday and New Zealand on Tuesday.
The Indian women's team 🃏will also𝓡 be in action on Sunday against Hungry.
On Friday, Ayhika Mukherjee and Sreeja Akula had stunned the world's top two players, Sun Yingsha🌄 and Wang Yidi, in their respective singles matches but the Indian women's team lost to China narrowly in its opening tie.
