{"id":874,"date":"2011-11-16T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=874"},"modified":"2011-11-16T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:35:06","slug":"mixed-day-for-indian-junior-paddlers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Mixed day for Indian junior paddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: <\/strong>It was a mixed day for the Indian paddlers at the  Volkswagen World Junior Table Tennis Championships here on Wednesday  with Harmeet Desai and Mallika Bhandarkar entering the round of 16 while  the mixed doubles pair of Soumyajit Ghosh and Manika Batra bowing out  in the round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After  accounting for the Puerto Rican pair in the first round, Desai and  Bhandarkar defeated the English-Germany duo of Gavin Evas and Nina  Mittelham 11-6,4-11,11-3,4-11,11-6 in a hard-fought battle that lasted  more than an hour. The Indian pair now has an onerous task in the  pre-quarterfinals where it will take on Chinese duo of Hongyuan Song and  Meng Chen.<\/p>\n<p>But chief coach Bhawani Mukherjee exuded confidence  saying the combination of Desai and Bhandarkar can unsettle any opponent  because while Desai plays an attacking game, Bhandarkar tries to wear  out opponents with his slow game. \u201cIt\u2019s not that she can\u2019t attack but  she prefers to slow down the game which may not suit the Chinese,\u201d he  said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ghosh and Batra bt James Pintea of Canada and  Ellen Hwang of the US in straight games of 11-2, 11-8, 11-5 but lost to  Chung Hei Chiu and Ching Wan Li 5-11, 7-11, 11-3, 13-15.<br \/>As for the  boys section, G Sathyan beat Stephan Shaposhnikov of Russia 12-10, 11-4,  11-4, 11-7 to move into the second round while Sourav Saha is slated to  play his qualifying game to move into the main draw. <\/p>\n<p>All the girls\u2019 matches are slated for the evening. They are played on league system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KARLSSON PRAISES: <\/strong>Swede  great Peter Karlsson praised the Indian boys for winning the bronze:  \u201cYour performance and the confident way with which you took on Chinese  prove that India\u2019s future in the game is bright and secure,\u201d said  Karlsson<br \/>Meanwhile, TTFI general-secretary Dhanraj Choudhary credited  the boys\u2019 bronze medal winning performance to the \u201cexcellent junior  programmes\u201d and the help provided by both the Sports Ministry and SAI.  \u201cThe boys were picked early before the 2010 CWG and trained properly and  it has yielded good results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain: <\/strong>It was a mixed day for the Indian paddlers at the  Volkswagen World Junior Table Tennis Championships here on Wednesday  with Harmeet Desai and Mallika Bhandarkar entering the round of 16 while  the mixed doubles pair of Soumyajit Ghosh and Manika Batra bowing out  in the round of 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-table-tennis-table-tennis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mixed day for Indian junior paddlers - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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