Top ranked Indian paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran defeats Robles from Spain in straight games 12-10,11-4,11-4 to make it to the next round where he will be up against Falck from Sweden
Achanta Sharath Kamal who had a phenomenal run till Semis only to lose a close one there last week has started this tournament in a convincing fashion defeating French Lebesson 11-5,9-11,11-6,11-9
Manika Batra defeats higher Ranked Chinese Tianyi Qian in a close five setter. She defeated the WR34 Qian 11-9,4-11,11-9,6-11,11-9 to make her way into Round of 32
Manika will next meet German Xiaona Shan who had received a bye in the Rd1, which will be there first meeting
Earlier in the day Sharath Kamal and Manav Thakkar lost in the first round itself after winning the first game 11-6. They eventually lost to Robles and Ionescu 11-6,6-11,7-11,5-11
The second indian pair Sanil and Amalraj who had come through the qualifying found it difficult against the Germans and they lost 3-11,8-11,8-11
Indian Team in the Tournament
Men Singles
MainDraw
Sathiyan Gnansekaran (37) vs Robles (57)
Sharath Kamal (42) v Lebesson (41)
Qualifying
- Mudit Dani – Lost
- Amalraj Anthony – Lost
- Manav Thakkar – Lost
- Sanil Shetty – Lost
Women Singles
MainDraw
Manika Batra (48) vs Qian (34)
Qualifying
- Sutirtha Mukherjee – Lost
- Takeme Sarkar – Lost
- Ayhika Mukherjee – Lost
- Reeth Tennison – Lost
- Sreeja Akula – Lost
- Diya Chitale – Lost
- Archana Kamath – Lost
Men Doubles
Manav/Sharath Vs Alvaro/Ovidiu
(Q)Sanil/Amalraj Vs Qiu/Duda
Women Doubles
Ayhika/Sutirtha Vs Soo/Lee
Manika/Archana Vs Dora/Georgina
Mixed Doubles
Archana/Manav Vs Daniel/Sofia
Sathiyan/Manika Vs Robles/Xiao