Team India celebrates after stunning Germany in the group stage of World Team Table Tennis Championships. Image: Twitter/@WTTGlobal
The Indian men’s team clinched a massive upset win in the ongoing World Team Table Tennis Championships on Sunday as they defeated Germany 3-1. The G Sathiyan-led India are currently joint-first in Group 2 along with France after two matches. They had won their first match 3-0 against Uzbekistan.
Sathiyan led from the front as he won both his matches against World No. 2 Germany.
Sathiyan defeated Benedikt Duda 3-2 (11-13,4-11,11-8,11-4,11-9) in the best of five games encounter before beating Dang Qiu 3-2 (10-12,7-11,11-8,11-8,11-9). He was trailing 0-2 at the start of both the matches but managed to bounce back to lead World No.17 India to a famous win.
Also, Manav Thakkar won 3-1 (13-11,6-11,11-8,12-10) against Walther Ricardo. Harmeet Desai lost 1-3 to Dang Qiu.
India’s next group match is against Kazakhstan on 3 October.
The World Team Table Tennis Championships is being played in China.
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