The in-form India No. 1 Manika Batra stopped Yihan Zhou of Singapore 11-5, 11-5, 11-2, 6-11, 11-4 to storm into the women’s table tennis singles semifinals at the Carrara sports arena here on Thursday. However, Mouma Das fell, losing to another Singaporean Yu Mengyu 15-13, 11-7, 11-5, 7-11, 11-5.
In men’s singles, A. Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai and G. Sathiyan are through to the quarterfinals to be played on Friday.
The results: Men: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): A. Sharath Kamal bt Heming Hu (Aus) 11-8, 12-10, 8-11, 11-6, 11-5; Harmeet Desai bt Chee Feng Leong (Mas) 11-5,11-7, 11-5, 7-11, 11-4; G. Sathiyan bt Segun Teriolo (Nig), 11-7 retd.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sharath & Sathiyan bt Jayasingha Mudiyanselage & Imesh Ramasingha (SL) 11-3, 11-4, 12-10; Harmeet & Sanil Shankar Shetty bt Paul McCreery & Ashley Robinson (NRI) 11-4,12-10, 11-9.
Women: Singles (quarterfinals): Manika Batra bt Yihan Zhou (Sgp) 11-5, 11-6, 11-2, 4-11, 11-7; Mouma Das lost to Yu Mengyu (Sgp) 15-13, 11-7, 11-5, 7-11, 11-5. Pre-quarterfinals: Manika bt Tracy Feng (Aus) 11-6, 11-6, 9-11, 11-9, 11-7; Mouma bt Tin-Tin Ho (Eng) 11-7, 7-11, 9-11,11-8, 11-13, 11-7, 11-8; Madhurika Patkar lost to Kelly Sibley (Eng) 11-9, 11-8, 2-11, 11-3, 8-11, 11-6.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sutirtha Mukerjee & Pooja Saharsrabudhe bt Chole Thomas & Charlotte Carey (Wal), 11-7, 11-5, 8-11, 11-6; Manika & Mouma bt Ishara Madurangi & Hansani Kapugeekiyana (SL), 11-4, 11-4, 11-1.
Mixed doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sanil & Madhurika bt Eldie Wan Kua & Rhikesh Tancoory (NRI) 11-4, 11-5, 11-6; Sharath & Mouma bt David McBeath & Kelly Sibley (Eng) 11-5, 11-5, 11-1; Sathiyan & Manika bt Marco Medjugorac & Alicia Cote (Can) 11-8, 11-13, 10-12, 11-6, 11-4 .
