Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade secured a historic silver medal in mixed doubles at the WTT Star Contender Chennai 2026. They lost the final 3-0 to a Romanian pair, marking the best-ever finish for an Indian duo in the tournament.
Desai-Ghorpade Secure Historic Silver
India's Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade claimed the mixed doubles runners-up medal after they went down in the final against Romanian second seeds Eduard Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs in the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Chennai 2026. Desai and Ghorpade lost the final 3-0 (11-9, 11-2, 11-8) to mark the best finish for an Indian pairing in the four editions of the WTT Star Contender India, as per a press release.
Men's and Women's Finals Lineup
Meanwhile, Czechia's Lubomir Jancarik continued his dream run in the competition by beating Korea Republic's Park Ganghyeon 3-2 (13-15, 11-7, 5-11, 11-7, 11-9) and will take on French fifth seed Thibault Poret, who is gunning for a double crown after winning the men's doubles title with Flavien Coton in the second edition of the WTT Star Contender Chennai 2026, co-hosted by Ultimate Table Tennis, Sharath Kamal Academy, and Stupa Sports AI with the support of SAI, Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) & SDAT.
The women's singles final will be an all-Japanese affair between top seed Satsuki Odo and 15th seed Miu Hirano. (ANI)
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