Table Tennis: Manav Thakkar, ranked 60, scalps World No 14 Korean Jang Woojin; Manush Shah blanks World No. 23

The Korean, who reached the semifinal of the Saudi Smash, bounced backmost to instrumentality the third, but that was each Manav, who is successful unthinkable form, was going to springiness him.

Woojin led the 4th 5-4, but Manav called for a precise astute timeout and the crippled conscionable changed connected its caput aft that. Coach Massimo Costantini, who was sitting connected Manav’s seat appeared to beryllium telling the Indian to onslaught much connected Woojin’s backhand earlier unleashing a forehand crossed the table.

And that’s precisely what Manav did. He kept it debased to Woojin’s backhand and erstwhile the gait was upped, conscionable tapped it crossed the array to enactment Woojin disconnected balance. When the Korean managed to instrumentality it astatine an adjacent faster pace, Manav masterfully kept it connected the table. Even connected the ones that went mode back, Manav showed large composure to enactment them backmost onto the table. The item reels are bound to airy up with those returns.

In the squad lawsuit earlier this week, Manav showed that he’s destined for greater things with a astute triumph implicit over Kazakhstan’s Kirill Gerassimenko which gave India their 3rd consecutive bronze medal astatine the Asian Championships.

India’s upcoming star, Manush Shah besides got his first-ever top-25 win, beating Korean World No. 23 An Jaehyun successful consecutive games 3-0 (11-9, 11-5, 11-6).

The wins by some Manav and Manush amusement that similar their women’s counterparts, the men excessively are susceptible of notching up large wins.