Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Harmeet Desai wins doubles title

MUMBAI: India's Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Harmeet Desai have won the men's doubles title in the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Tunis 2021, beating France's Emmanuel Lebesson and Alexandre Cassin 3-1 (11-9, 4-11, 11-9, 11-5) in the final played at Tunis, Tunisia on Saturday.

Sathiyan and Harmeet, who were part of the gold medal-winning Indian men's team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, paired up for this event and played up superbly as they did not give their French rivals, who recently played together at the Tokyo Olympics, many chances.

This is Sathiyan's second title in the WTT Contender 2021 series having won the mixed doubles crown at the at Budapest with Manika Batra in August. IANS

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