The Indian women's team has created a major upset in the Asian Table Tennis Championship. The team confirmed the medal by defeating Paris Olympics bronze medal winners South Korea 3-2 in the quarter-final match and placing in the top-4.
Ahika Mukherjee played an important role in this victory. The world number 92 Indian defeated world number 8 Shin Yubin and world number 16 Jeon Jihee. The Indian women's team will face Japan on Wednesday.
With this win, the Indian women's team bagged its first medal in the Asian Championship organized by the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU). Indian women won bronze in the 1960 season organized by the current Table Tennis Federation of Asia. That means India has won a medal in the tournament after 64 years.
Indian women's team participating in the Asian Championship. The team will play a semi-final match against Japan on Wednesday.
Ahika won 2 matches, semi-final against Japan today The quarter final match played on Tuesday evening saw a fierce clash between India and South Korea. Ahika and Manika Batra gave India an unexpected 2-0 lead in the match, but South Korea leveled the score at 2-2. After this, Ahika defeated Jihi and gave victory to India.
Ahika was not part of the Indian women's team that reached the quarter-finals of the Paris Olympics, but returned to the team after the retirement of Archana Kamath. Ahika defeated world number one Sun Ying of China at the World Team Championship earlier this year.
Match result 5 points
- Ayika defeated eighth seed Ubin 11-9, 7-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-7.
- Manika defeated Jeon Jihee 12-14, 13-11, 11-5, 5-11, 12-10.
- Srija Akula lost to Lee Yunhee 6-11, 10-12, 8-11.
- Yubin defeated Manika 13-11, 11-4, 6-11, 7-11, 12-10.
- Ahika defeated Jihi 7-11, 11-6, 12-10, 12-10 in the decider.
Indian men's team quarter finals today The Indian men's team will play the quarter-finals on Wednesday. Indian team will face Kazakhstan. The match will start at 2 pm.
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