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Watch: Harmeet Desai and Manush Shah show sportsmanship at World TT Championships

India’s top doubles players Harmeet Desai and Manush Shah in the men’s doubles showed a great sportsmanship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban on Monday.

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Harmeet Desai and Manush Shah also bowed out of the men’s doubles after losing to Japan’s world No 2 team of Shunsuke Togami and Yukiya Uda.

Manush Shah served wrong, the Umpire misses it, Japanese team protests in vain. Shah and Harmeet Desai engaged in a quick chat. Next point, Shah deliberately serves into the net to give back the point.

The men’s doubles pairing of Sharath and Sathiyan beat the Danish-Hungarian pairing of Anders Lind and Bence Majoros 11-5, 11-4, 15-13 to move into the round of 16.

Sathiyan also progressed to the mixed doubles Round of 16 with Manika Batra after the Indian pair beat Brazil’s Eric Jouti and Luca Kumahara 8-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-6

In the women’s doubles event, the world no 13 pairing of Batra and Archana Kamath secured their place in the last-16 with a 11-5, 11-7, 11-7 win over Hungary’s world No 28 Dora Madarasz and Georgina Pota.

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In the women’s doubles, the world No 91 pairing of Akula and Diya Chitale lost to China’s top-ranked pairing of Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu 8-11, 8-11, 11-13.