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Raman-Mantu duo advances

Manchester Aug. 1 . Barring the duo of S. Raman and Mantu Ghosh, all the other Indian pairs fell by the wayside in the second round of the table tennis mixed doubles event in the 17th Commonwealth Games here on Thursday.

Raman and Mantu defeated the Lesotho pair of Monyooe Taole and Boteng Ntisane 11-6, 11-2, 11-2 to progress to the second round, even as the fancied team of Chetan Baboor and N.R. Indu lost to the English duo of Andrew Baggaley and Georgina Walker 10-12, 7-11, 5-11.

Soumyadeep Roy and Mouma Das also bit the dust in the second round going down to the Singapore pair of Tai Yong Zhang and Jun Hong Jing 8-11, 4-11, 5-11, while Sourav Chakraborty and Poulomi Ghatak lost to Xiao Li Cai and Xue Ling Zhang of Singapore 8-11, 3-11, 7-11.

In women's doubles, Mantu and Indu struggled before overwhelming the Welsh pair of Betham Daunton and Natasha Lake 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 14-12, 11-8, while Mouma Das and Poulomi Ghatak did not have to sweat much as they spanked the girls from Trinidad and Tobago 11-3, 17-15, 11-8.

In men's doubles, Raman and Baboor moved into the quarterfinals by prevailing over A. Gita and P. Mutambuze of Uganda 11-8, 11-3, 11-3. Sourav Chakraborty and Soumyadeep Roy got a walkover in second round.

— PTI

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