Manika Batra and Natalia Bajor helped Bengaluru Smashers beat Puneri Paltan 8-7 of their Ultimate Table Tennis Season 4 conflict on the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex right here on Sunday.
Puneri Paltan wanted just one sport to win when international no. 42 Bajor entered the closing fit — girls’s singles — of the tie and defeated Archana Kamath 3-0 (8-11, 8-11, September 11) to stay Bengaluru Smashers alive within the league.
The first sport noticed an exciting 11-8 win for Bajor, who performed correct backhands coupled with robust forehands to take the second one sport via the similar scoreline. The Polish paddler saved her nerve within the decider and gained it 11-9 along with her pinpoint pictures.
Earlier, Batra thumped Hana Matelova 2-1 in the second one fit of the tie to sign in her 3rd girls’s singles victory within the ongoing season.
The international no. 35 confirmed regulate on her backends early directly to win the primary sport 11–9 prior to Matelova fought again to clinch the second one 11–8. However, Batra pocketed the 3rd sport 11-6 in addition to the fit.
Bengaluru Smashers’ captain Kirill Gerassimenko beat Puneri Paltan’s big name participant Omar Assar 2-1 to offer his facet a profitable get started. Gerassimenko gained the competition 11–8, 10–11, 10–11.
The Twenty third-ranked Assar started the primary sport in competitive mode and centered the flanks to win it 11-8, prior to Kirill made a comeback to clinch the second one sport thru a golden level.
The 3rd sport additionally went to the golden level, which went in desire of Gerassimenko.
In the 3rd fit, a combined doubles tie, Matelova and Manush Shah beat Batra and Gerassimenko 3–0, profitable 11–9, 11–10, 11–4.
Manush then defeated Jeet Chandra 2–1 within the penultimate fit, profitable 11–9, 11–9, 7–11.
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