Sharath, Manika seal Olympic berth in blended doubles after successful Asian Qualification tournament
Megastar Indian pair of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra sealed the Olympics berth in blended doubles desk tennis after beating global No. Eight Korean Sang-Su Lee and Jihee Jneon 4-2 within the ultimate of Asian Olympic Qualification Match right here on Saturday.
The 2018 Asian Video games bronze medallists staged a outstanding comeback after being two units right down to outwit the Korean pair 8-11 6-11 11-5 11-6 13-11 11-Eight in an exciting ultimate.
Sharath and Manika had already secured their singles berth on Thursday and can now additionally compete as a doubles pair on the behind schedule Tokyo Video games, to be held from July 23 to August Eight this yr.
On Friday, Sharath and Manika had defeated Singapore’s Koen Pang Yew En and Lin Ye 4-2 within the semifinals to get to touching distance of creating it to the showpiece.
On Thursday, the entire 4 Indian paddlers Sharath, Manika, Gnanasekaran Sathiyan and Sutirtha Mukherjee had earned themselves singles qualification berths on the Tokyo Video games.
Whilst Sathiyan and Sutirtha emerged winners of their respective classes of the South Asian Staff, Sharath and Manika sealed Tokyo berths via distinctive feature of being the highest-ranked second-placed gamers.
