Mar 28, 2025 01:00 PM IST
Payas Jain upsets G Sathiyan at WTT Star Contender Chennai.
Former U-17 World No. 1 Payas Jain produced the most important upset of the opening day at WTT Star Contender Chennai by knocking out Commonwealth Video games and Asian Video games medallist Sathiyan Gnanasekaran within the Spherical of 64 right here on Thursday.
Payas Jain upsets G Sathiyan at WTT Star Contender Chennai. (HT_PRINT)
High-seeded Japanese duo Tomokazu Harimoto and Sora Matsushima dominated their males’s doubles conflict, whereas Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara mirrored their success within the girls’s doubles draw.
Later within the day, Indian nice Sharath Kamal started his farewell occasion with a 3-0 win over qualifier Anirban Ghosh. Sharath additionally partnered Snehit Suravajjula within the males’s doubles to defeat Australia’s Nicholas Lum and Finn Luu in a five-game thriller.
The occasion boasts 600 rating factors for winners and a USD 275,000 prize purse, with prime world paddlers in motion.
Gujarat trio of Manav Thakkar, Harmeet Desai, and Manush Shah made robust begins within the males’s singles. Manav and Harmeet cruised by way of in straight video games, defeating qualifiers Divyansh Srivastava and Kim Taehyun, respectively.
Wildcard Manush overcame a sluggish begin, rallying from a recreation all the way down to edge previous Italian qualifier John Oyebode in a hard-fought encounter.
In a gripping all-Indian girls’s singles conflict, Ayhika Mukherjee edged previous wildcard and her doubles accomplice Sutirtha Mukherjee in a five-game thriller.
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