Ghosh, Shetty enter main draw of ITTF World Tour

India's Soumyajit Ghosh and Sanil Shetty have entered the main draw of the ITTF World Tour India Open tournament. On the opening day of the event in New Delhi yesterday, Soumyajit defeated Saudi Arabia’s Ali Alkhadrawi by Four games to Three. 

Soumyajit earlier won his opening match in the morning, beating his compatriot Jeet Chandra 4-0, to seal his place in the main draw.Sanil Shetty also got off to a flying start in the morning, trouncing Ronit Bhanja in straight games. In his second match, he



defeated Lubomir Jancark of Czech Republic. 

In the women’s singles action, recently crowned national champion Madhurika Patkar started off well by beating compatriot Krritwika Roy 4-1 to take the early lead in Group 1. She, however lost to Suthirtha Mukherjee later in the day which might not help her reach the main draw. 

Archana Kamath and Priyanka Pareek won both their qualifying matches to give themselves the opportunity of facing a lower ranked player in the tournament proper.