Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran pair wins WTT Contender mixed doubles title

BUDAPEST: The Indian pair of Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran won the mixed doubles title at the WTT Contender event in Budapest on Friday.

Manika and Sathiyan beat top seeds Nandor Ecseki and Dora Madarasz of Hungary 11-9, 9-11, 12-10 and 11-6 to become the first table tennis players from India to win a WTT Contender title.

This was the first time that Manika and Sathiyan paired together since winning the bronze medal in the mixed doubles event of the 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast in Australia.

Manika had partnered veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal at the Jakarta Asian Games, where the duo bagged a bronze medal, and the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics from which they came back empty handed. IANS

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