Indian paddler Harmeet Desai, on Friday night, surprised world no. 37 Kirill Gerassimeko of Kazakhstan in straight online games to reach the quarterfinals of the WTT Feeder Varazdin in Croatia.
Harmeet, a crucial member of the Indian men’s team’s historic qualification to the 2024 Paris Olympics, shown his incredible grit and perseverance to get greater off the larger-ranked participant 11-8, 11-3, 11-9.
This was the 1st time Harmeet beat Kirill.
Previously, Harmeet defeated Adrien Rassenfosse in Round of 32.
In the quarterfinals, Harmeet will consider on An Jaehyun of Korea.
The Commonwealth Game titles gold medallist in the workforce championship will glimpse to attain the remaining and earn the title.
Sathiyan Gunanasekaran was knocked out in the Round of 32 by his fellow Indian paddler Snehit Suravajjula. Snehit won the match in straight video games 11-9, 11-2, 11-7.
Snehit’s successful run, even so, ended in the following round as he shed to Eduard Lonescu 5-11, 3-11, 7-11.
In women’s singles, Yashaswini Ghorpade shed in the pre-quarterfinals versus Lee Eunhye 7-11, 8-11, 4-11.
Before, Ghorpade attained the Spherical of 16 successful a thrilling 5-gamer in opposition to Zhu Chengzhu.
Also losing was the combined doubles pairing of Sathiyan and Manika Batra as they dropped to Lubomir Pistej and Barbora Balazova in a five-gamer (11-9, 6-11, 11-4, 11-13, 12-14).