Published Fri, Jun 18 10 09:21 PM
New Delhi, June 18 (PTI) Top seed Indian Achanta Sharath Kamal advanced to the second round of men''s singles event of the NCC Indian Open ITTF Pro Tour tournament after an easy win over Ji Min Han of Korea here today. Sharath defeated Ji Min 11-9 11-6 5-11 11-8 11-4 in a first round match at the Yamuna Sports Complex here. He now meets Chih Chi Wu of Chinese Taipei in the second round. Wu defeated Abishek Ravichandran of India 11-3 8-11 3-11 11-6 11-9 11-6. In the men''s doubles, Sharath and Subhajit Saha defeated the pair of Xiaoli Cai and Zhongze Liu of Singapore 3-11 8-11 11-9 11-2 11-5 7-11 12-10 to advance to the second round. In a major upset, Indian duo of Harmeet Desai and Devesh Karia defeated second seeded pair of Patrick Baum and Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany 11-6 11-6 11-3 11-9. In women''s singles, top Indian Mouma Das lost to Dal Rae Jin from Korea 5-11 7-11 16-14 3-11 6-11 in the opening round. The tournament is being considered a test event for Commonwealth Games here in October. Over 100 players from 13 nations are participating in the five-day event.
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