India paddler Manika Batra on Sunday progressed to Round 3 of the women's singles event after defeating Ukraine's Margaryta Pesotska at Tokyo Metropolitan Gym -- Table 1 in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Batra defeated Margaryta Pesotska 4-3 in Round 2 of the women's singles event on Sunday and as a result, she has progressed to Round 3. Ukraine's Pesotska won Game 1 quite comprehensively and this put pressure on Manika pretty early on and she was left with all to do in the following games to progress further in the women's singles event. Also read Tokyo Olympics 2020: PV Sindhu beats Ksenia Polikarpova in 28 minutesThe Indian dominated in the final game and against all odds and she progressed to Round 3. Earlier on Sunday, India paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran bowed out of the men's singles event after losing to Hong Kong's Lam Siu Hang at Tokyo Metropolitan Gym -- Table 4 in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

Source: dna July 25, 2021 08:48 UTC