The second edition of the WTT Star Contender Goa 2024 is back in India from 23rd January 2024 with some exciting fixtures on the way.
The second edition of the WTT Star Contender Goa 2024 is back in India from Tuesday (23rd January 2024) with some exciting fixtures on the way. The tournament is one of the six-star Contender series events that only allows the top 30 players in the world to participate, with a minimum of six players from the top 20 in the world rankings.
The tournament is scheduled between January 23 to 28 with all five disciplines of table tennis – men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles – to be conducted.
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Manav Thakkar and Ayhika Mukherjee began their respective campaigns at the WTT Star Contender Goa 2024 table tennis tournament with comfortable victories at the Peddem Indoor Stadium in Mapusa on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Sharath Kamal and Sanil Shetty faced defeats in the men’s singles qualifying round 2 to exit the tournament. Sharath Kamal went down 3-2 (11-6, 12-10, 4-11, 15-17, 3-11) against the Republic of Korea’s Kang Dongsoo whereas Algeria’s Mehdi Bouloussa beat Sanil Shetty 3-2 (14-12, 11-9, 11-13, 7-11, 11-6).
In the mixed doubles category, Manush Shah and Diya Chitale defeated the Indonesian pair of Quek Izaac and Zhou Jingyi 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-6) in straight games while Sreeja Akula and Snehit Suravajjula beat Pang Koen and Wong Ru of Indonesia 3-1 (11-9, 13-11, 7-11, 11-8) to reach the second round of qualifiers.
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Main Draw: Harmeet Desai, Manush Shah, Payas Jain, Snehit Suravajulla, Jeet Chandra, Anirban Ghosh Achanta Sharath Kamal, and Wesley Do Rosario
Qualifiers: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Achanta Sharath Kamal, Manav Thakkar, Sunil Shetty, Yashansh Malik, Abhinandh PRADHIVADHI, Mudit Dani, Ansh Sabharwal, Preyesh Suresh Raj, Anshuman Agarwal
Main Draw: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Archana Girish Kamath, Suhana Saini and Anjali Rohilla.
Qualifiers: Sutirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale, Ayhika Mukherjee, Swastika Ghosh, Nithya Mani, Pritha Priya Vartikar, Taneesha Kotecha, Sayali Wani, Jennifer VARGHESE, Poymantee Bhaisya, Radhapriya Goel, Sayanika Maji, Yashini Sivasankar, Frenaz Chipia, Diya Brahmachary, Lakshita Narang, Garima Goyal, Debolina Das, Selena Selvakumar and Trisha Gogoi.
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Main Draw: Manav Thakkar/Manush Shah, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Achanta Sharath Kamal and Harmeet Desai /Snehit Suravajjula.
Qualifiers: Jeet Chandra/Payas Jain, Anirban Ghosh /Sanil Shetty, Mudit Dani/Ibrahim Gunzduz, and Abhinanda PRADHIVADHI/Yashansh Malik.
Main Draw: Sutirtha Mukherjee/Ayhika Mukherjee, Diya Chitale/Sreeja Akula and Manika Batra/Archana Kamath.
Qualifiers: Yasashwini Ghorpade/Suhana Saini, Ananya Basak/Poymantee Baisya , Selena Selvakumar/Nithya Mani , Sayali Wani/Taneesha Kotecha, Frenaz Chpia/Radhapriya Goel ,Diya Brahmchary/Anjali Rohilla and Yashini Sivasankar/Garima Goyal.
Main Draw: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra and Manav Thakkar/Archana Kamath
Qualifiers: Manush Shah//Diya Chitale, Sreeja Akula/Snehit Suravajjula, Yashaswini Ghorpade/Payas Jain, Swastika Ghosh/Anirban, and Harmeet Desai/Ayhika Mukherjee.
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The WTT Star Contender Goa 2024 qualifiers are scheduled from January 23 to 24. However, the main draw starts on January 25. All the finals will take place on January 28 in Goa.
The WTT Star Contender Goa 2024 matches will be live-streamed on the SonyLIV mobile application and website. Moreover, it will also be telecasted on the Sony Sports Network, Sony Sports Ten 2 and Sony Sports Ten 2 HD.
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