Indian mixed doubles pair of Manika Batra and G Sathiyan advanced to the semifinals of the WTT Contender tournament in Tunis after a straight-set win over German duo of Cedric Meissner and Yuan Wan on Friday. (More Sports News)
🍒Batra-Sathiyan won 3-0 (11-8 11-3 11-8) in the quarter-final match that lasted a little over 21 minutes.
They face the Kore🅷an pair of Shin Yubin and Lim Jonghoon for a place in the final.
Batra and Sathiyan had already made first round exits in the women's and men's singl🐻🌺es, respectively.
In the ♍men's si🥀ngles, Harmeet Desai suffered a 0-3 defeat at the hands of Liang Yanning of China in the pre-quarterfinals on Friday.
Desai lost 5-11 6-11 5-11 in a Round of 16 match that lasted �ꦕ�20 minutes.
His defeat brought t💙he end of Indian challenge in the♔ men's singles.
Achanta Sarath Kamal and Sathiyan had exited from the tournament in the first round💃 itself.
India's campaign also ended in th⛎e women's singles🅠 as Ayhika Mukherjee suffered an identical 0-3 (5-11 9-11 10-12) defeat to Miyu Nagasaki of Japan in the Round of 16.
Batra, Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale had f🦩ailed to go past the ꦓfirst round.
