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WTT Feeder Cagliari 2024: India’s Krittwika Roy-Yashaswini Ghorpade secure women’s doubles title

October 28, 2024 11:26 AM IST

WTT Feeder Cagliari 2024

The Indian pair of Krittwika Roy and Yashaswini Ghorpade secured the women’s doubles title at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Feeder Cagliari 2024 tournament in Italy on Sunday. Krittwika and Yashaswini won against South Korea’s Yoo Siwoo and Kim Haeun with a score of 3-1 (11-9, 9-11, 14-12, 11-2), as per Olympics.com.

Leading up to the title clash, the second-seeded Indian pair defeated the Italian team of Arianna Barani and Maria Picu 3-0 in the first round, before eliminating the Japanese team of Sachi Aoki and Sakura Yokoi in the quarterfinals with the same scoreline.

Krittwika and Yashaswini reached the title match with a 3-1 victory over the fourth-seeded German duo of Sophia Klee and Franziska Schreiner. Ghorpade also reached the semifinals of the mixed doubles event with Harmeet Desai; however, the top-seeded pair bowed out of the tournament with a 3-0 loss to Italy’s John Oyebode and Gaia Monfardini, the fourth seeds, who eventually went on to win the title.

In the women’s singles, Ghorpade’s run ended in the round of 16 after a crushing loss to South Korea’s Lee Daeun. Harmeet made it to the men’s singles quarterfinals before suffering a shock defeat to Malta’s Amirreza Abbasi, who qualified for the main draw through the qualifiers.

(ANI)

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