The Indian Desk tennis pai G Sathiyan and Manika Batra, ranked 18th within the World, had been crushed by Malaysia’s Javen Choong and Karen Lyne, ranked 153rd within the quarter-finals of World Combined Doubles Desk Tennis Olympic Qualifiers in Czechia on Friday.

Ranked 18th within the newest ITTF combined doubles rankings, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra needed to face a surprising 4-1 (11-9, 11-9, 11-9, 7-11,11-8) defeat by the hands of the Malaysian pair. The Eighth-seeded Indian desk tennis pair had acquired a bye within the spherical of 16 bracket and had been anticipated to undergo to the following stage simply.

The Indian pair had already misplaced the quarter-finals of the first knockout spherical on Thursday and this was their second and final probability to win a Paris Olympics quota for India. 

Within the first knockout spherical, they misplaced 4-1 (7-11, 10-12, 11-9, 6-11, 6-11) towards the Twenty first-ranked Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea pair Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong.

India’s qualification scene in Desk Tennis on the Paris Olympics

Indian Males’s and Ladies’s Desk tennis groups have already secured Paris Olympics Quotas based mostly on their rankings. That quota additionally enabled Indian singles desk tennis gamers to have two quotas within the males’s and ladies’s classes every.

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Can the Combined Doubles group nonetheless qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024?

For the reason that World Combined Doubles Desk Tennis Olympic Qualifiers was the last qualifying occasion for the combined doubles desk tennis competitors forward of the Paris Olympics, the Indian combined doubles group is unlikely to earn a spot there. As per the rule, the 5 highest-ranked combined doubles pairs on this planet as of Could 7, 2024, will qualify for the Paris Olympics, on condition that that pair haven’t already certified and are from a rustic which haven’t certified. 

G Sathiyan and Manika Batra are presently 18 within the combined doubles world rating.