Indian girls led by Ayhika Mukherjee, win Slovak Junior Open Table Tennis team title

India, the top seeds at the Slovak ITTF Junior Open tournament, justified their seeding by clinching the title. Ayhika Mukherjee was the star player for the Indian team ably assisted by Priyadarshini Das and Sreeja Akula.

In the finals, they beat the tough Chinese Taipei team 3-2. Earlier, the girls in form had beaten Bulgaria in another close tie.

Photos courtesy of the ITTF. 

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Timo Boll, Ovtcharov reach German Open Table Tennis semi finals

Host star players, Timo Boll and Dima Ovtcharov reached the Semi-finals of the German Open Table Tennis tournament. Timo Boll beat Japan's Koki Niwa  11-4,11-7,11-9,11-3 while Ovtcharov overcame Zhan Jian 11-9, 11-5, 11-8, and 11-4.

Noshad Alamiyan and Petrissa Solja won the U-21 Boy's and Girls singles titles.

Noshad defeated Omar Assar 7-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6, 13-11 while Petrissa beat Chinese Taipei’s Cheng I-Ching, the no.5 seed 11-9, 9-11, 11-2, 9-11, 11-5, 13-11. In the Men's singles, Noshad lost in straight games to Timo Boll.