WTT Contender Tunis 2023: Sutirtha and Ayhika Mukherjee win women's doubles crown for India
Jun 25, 2023
Tunis [Tunisia], June 25 : Indian paddlers Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee won the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Tunis 2023 women's doubles championship on Sunday at the Sports Hall of Rades in Tunisia.
Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee won the match 3-1 (11-5, 11-6, 5-11, 13-11) over Miyuu Kihara and Miwa Harimoto of Japan. Earlier in the day in Tunis, Harimoto won the women's singles championship, as per Olympics.com.
The two became the first Indian table tennis players to win a WTT Contender championship this year with the victory.
Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee defeated top seeds and silver medalists from the global championships Shin Yubin and Jeon Ji-hee of the Republic of Korea in the semifinals to go to the title match.
Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee of India defeated Amy Wang and Rachel Sung of the USA in the first round before eliminating Chinese Taipei's Chen Szu-Yu and Huang Yi-Hua, bronze medalists from the 2022 world championships.
The Korean team of Shin Yubin and Lim Jonghoon defeated Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran of India in the semifinals of the mixed doubles competition on Saturday.
Manav Vikash Thakkar and Manush Utpalbhai Shah of India's men's doubles team advanced to the final four before being defeated by Cho Daeseong and Cho Seungmin of Korea.
Men's singles champion Sharath Kamal and fellow countryman Sathiyan Gnanasekaran were eliminated in the opening round in singles competition. The pre-quarterfinals were where Harmeet Desai lost.
Manika Batra did not advance past round one in the women's singles division. The only female table tennis player from India to get to the second round was Ayhika Mukherjee, an Olympian from Tokyo.
WTT Contender Tunis 2023: Results of Indian players
-Men's singles
Sharath Kamal - Out in first round
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - Out in the first round
Harmeet Desai - Out in the second round
Sanil Shetty - Out in the qualifiers
Manush Shah - Out in the qualifiers
-Women's singles
Manika Batra - Out in the first round
Diya Parag Chitale - Out in the first round
Sreeja Akula - Out in the first round
Ayhika Mukherjee - Out in the second round
Reeth Tennison - Out in the qualifiers
Sutirtha Mukherjee - Out in the qualifiers
-Men's doubles
Harmeet Desai/Sharath Kamal - Out in the first round
Manav Vikash Thakkar/Manush Shah - Out in the semi-finals
-Women's doubles
Sutirtha Mukherjee/Ayhika Mukherjee - Winners
Diya Parag Chitale/Sreeja Akula - Out in the first round
-Mixed doubles
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra - Out in the semi-finals
Manush Utpalbhai Shah/Sreeja Akula - Out in the qualifiers.
