{"id":4260,"date":"2024-05-07T09:51:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T09:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbuddy.co.in\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2024-05-07T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T09:54:47","slug":"able-tennis-federation-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/?p=4260","title":{"rendered":"Manika returns to form; Harmeet-Yashaswini pair in PQF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>New Delhi (Team Newsbuddy):<\/em><\/strong> Manika Batra made her best return to form with less than three months to go for the Paris Olympics as the 28-year-old Indian shocked World No. 2 Wang Manyu to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the Saudi Smash at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manika beat the second-seeded Chinese 3-1 (6-11, 11-5, 11-7, 12-10), taking just 37 minutes. Though Manika lost the opening game against the 25-year-old, she fought back well to take the next two games quickly. The world No. 2 kept herself in the match until Manika, without giving her another opportunity, claimed the last two points to seal the Chinese fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unseeded and world No. 39 Manika, who accounted for Andreea Dragoman of Romania yesterday, clashes with Nina Mittelham of Germany, ranked No. 14 in the world, tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In mixed doubles, Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade surprised the Spanish fifth-seeded pair of Alvaro Robles and Maria Xiao 3-2 (11-5, 5-11, 3-11, 11-7,11-7) to storm into the quarterfinals. In the pre-quarters, the Indian duo had beaten the Chilean duo Nicolas Burgos and Paulina Vega 3-2 (11-7, 9-11, 11-4, 4-11, 11-5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Asian Games bronze medallists Ayhika and Sutirtha Mukherjee ended a successful day in Jeddah when the pair defeated Mariam and Marwa Alhodaby 3-0 (11-7, 1-3, 11-4) to enter the pre-quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Asian Games bronze medallists Ayhika and Sutirtha Mukherjee ended a successful day in Jeddah when the pair defeated Mariam and Marwa Alhodaby 3-0 (11-7, 1-3, 11-4) to enter the pre-quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Sreeja Akula, who upstaged Manika in the world ranking to occupy the No. 38 position, lost 7-11, 11-3, 11-9, 12-14 to Jieni Saho after leading the Portuguese in two games. Earlier other Indians went down with good fights in singles including A. Sharath Kamal, Archana Kamath, Manav Thakkar and Sutirtha Mukherjee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharath, who met Aruna Qadri of Nigeria in the round of 64, lost after a gutsy performance as he led 2-0. Qadri beat Sharath 8-11, 11-13, 11-8,&nbsp;11-5,&nbsp;13-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (Team Newsbuddy): Manika Batra made her best return to form with less than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-newstoday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}