Asian Games: Indian women's table tennis team starts campaign with win over Singapore
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he Indian women's table tennis team started off their campaign with a hard-fought win over Singapore in their Group F match at the ongoing Asian Games at Hangzhou on Friday.
India beat Singapore by 3-2.
In the first match of the tie, Ayhika Mukherjee took on Jian Zeng in women's singles competition. Jian won the game by 3-1 to give Singapore a 1-0 lead.
In the second match of the tie, Manika Batra took on Jingyi Zhou in another women's singles match. Batra reversed the fortunes of Singapore, levelling the scoreline 1-1 with a 3-1 win over the Singaporean .
Sreeja Akula took on Ru Xin Wong in the third match of the tie. This match was a hard-fought won but Sreeja won it by 3-2 . With this, the scoreline turned in India's favour at 2-1.
However, Singapore refused to go down without a fight. Jian defeated Manika by 3-2 in a hard-fought match to level the scoreline at 2-2.
In the final match of the tie, Ayhika beat Zhou by 3-1 to seal a 3-2 win for India.
Now, India will next take on Nepal on Saturday.
✔️ Asian Games: Indian women's table tennis team starts campaign with win over Singapore
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