ITTF Men's and Women's World Cup

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We can share updates and results here.

In this edition, Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula have made the cut.
Stage 1 has 16 groups where round robin matches will be played. Winner of each group moves on to Stage 2 for the knockout rounds.

Group 2
Manika Batra
Wang Manyu
Adina Diaconu

Group 4
Sreeja Akula
Chen Meng
Natalia Bajor

Wang Manyu is WR#2
Chen Meng is the defending champion and WR#4

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Sreeja Akula gets her first win at the ITTF Women's World Cup

Group 4
Sreeja Akula (IND,39) d. Natalia Bajor (POL,52) 11-9 11-6 11-5 11-5

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Manika also had a winning start to her Group 2 campaign with a comfortable 3-1 victory over her Romanian opponent.

Manika Batra (IND,37) d. Adina Diaconu (ROU,46) 9-11 11-8 11-6 11-8

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Tight match. Saw the last game briefly, it was 7-7 and the next point Adina won. Manika took time out at 7-8 and then won 4 points straight. Happy to see Manika get the win. Also, this is Manika's first world cup appearance as well.

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Both Manika & Sreeja lost against fancied opponents in their 2nd Round Robin match & crashed out of the Event. Sreeja was, although, able to take a Set off Chen Meng (WR#4).

This Tournament followed a strange scoring system in the Group stage with a fixed number of four (04) Sets being played irrespective of the number of Sets being won by any Player like it can be 4-0 or even 2-2 also with the Match ending in a stalemate (No clear Winner), in terms of number of Sets won by each Player!!!

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The men's and women's world cup will be played in Macao, China from 14th-20th April 2025. It's the same venue as last year.

Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula are confirmed in the entry list

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The tournament shall consist of 2 stages.

In Stage 1 the players will be divided into 16 groups of 3 players, with all members of a group playing each other (round robin).
To ensure that the final round matches are significant for each competing player, the order of play in group matches will be – round one 2 vs 3; round two 1 vs loser of match 1, round three 1 vs winner of match 1. Matches of Stage 1 shall be 4 games (result 4-0,3-1 or 2-2).
The first-place finishers of each group shall qualify for the Stage 2 of the competition.

Stage 2 of the competition shall consist of a knockout draw. Matches of Stage 2 shall be the best of 7 games.

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Indian Table Tennis Success in Round Robin Opener

Sreeja Akula (IND,34) in group 9 alongside Bernadette Szocs (ROU,13) and Constantina Psihogios (AUS,68)
Manika Batra (IND,29) in group 16 alongside Maylis Giret (NCL,186) and Bruna Takahashi (BRA,23)

First round of round robin matches were played today and both of them won

Sreeja Akula (IND,34) d. Constantina Psihogios (AUS,68) 3-1
Manika Batra (IND,29) d. Maylis Giret (NCL,186) 4-0

Both of them will proceed to their next round robin matches on April 16th.

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Both Manika & Sreeja lost in the decider in their respective groups.

Group 16
Manika Batra (IND,30) l. Bruna Takahashi (BRA,24) 11-13, 8-11, 4-11, 12-10

Group 9
Sreeja Akula (IND,35) l. Bernadette Szocs (ROU,14) 8-11, 6-11, 9-11, 8-11

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Wow, a Brazilian beating Chinese and Japanese to win a title at a high level Table Tennis tournament. When will an Indian do this ?