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In Table Tennis, India’s Yashaswini Ghorpade and Krittwika Roy clinched the women’s doubles title at the WTT Feeder Cagliari 2024 table tennis tournament in Italy, yesterday. The star Indian duo defeated the South Korean pair of Yoo Siwoo and Kim Haeun 3-1 in the final to capture the crown. Earlier, the Indian table tennis players, seeded second in the tournament, beat the Italian team of Arianna Barani and Maria Picu 3-0 in the first round before downing Japan’s Sachi Aoki and Sakura Yokoi by the same scoreline in the quarter-finals.
The duo earned its place in the final with a 3-1 win over German fourth seeds Sophia Klee and Franziska Schreiner. Ghorpade also made the semi-finals of the mixed doubles event with Harmeet Desai. The Indian top seeds, however, bowed out following a 3-0 loss to the Italian pair of John Oyebode and Gaia Monfardini.