File picture of Manika Batra.© AFP
India’s desk tennis star Manika Batra produced a dominant efficiency to defeat America’s Lily Zhang 3-0 to advance into the ladies’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the WTT Champions at Montpellier in France on Wednesday. Manika, who made historical past in Paris Olympics to turn out to be the first-ever Indian to achieve the singles pre-quarterfinals, took lower than 22 minutes to cruise to a 11-4, 11-8, 12-10 victory. The four-time Olympian Zhang, who additionally had a pre-quarterfinal end in Paris, fought laborious to come back again within the third sport however Manika’s consistency and precision noticed her by.
The Indian gained a complete of 34 factors, in comparison with Zhang’s 22 and he or she was particularly sturdy on her opponent’s serve, successful 14 factors off the Chinese language-American.
Manika will face the winner of eighth seeded Romanian Bernadette Szocs and Orawan Paranang of Thailand.
Sreeja Akula is the second Indian in the principle draw and she is going to tackle Pan American champion Adriana Diaz of Puerto Rico later within the day.
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