Asian Games: Campaign Ends For India Women’s TT Team With 0-3 Loss To N. Korea In Quarters

Asian Games: Campaign ends for India women’s TT team with 0-3 loss to N. Korea in quarters (Campaign ends for India women’s table tennis team with 0-3 loss to North Korea in quarterfinals of the team competition at the 2026 Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya on Tuesday. Photo credit: SAI Media)

Kum Yong Kim: The Indian women’s table tennis team crashed out of the team event at the Asian Games 2026 without a medal after suffering a 0-3 defeat to North Korea in their quarterfinal tie on Tuesday.

Sreeja Akula, Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale all suffered straight-games defeats as North Korea completed a clean sweep to end India’s campaign in the event.

Sreeja, who had played a key role in India’s hard-fought win over Thailand in the previous round, was the first Indian player in action against Kum Yong Kim. However, she could not carry her form into the quarterfinal and went down 0-3, losing 7-11, 6-11, and 5-11.

India were then in serious trouble at 0-1, with Yashaswini tasked with keeping the team alive in the tie. She, too, could not find a way past Song Gyong Pyon, losing 4-11, 3-11, 6-11 as North Korea moved 2-0 ahead.

With their medal hopes hanging by a thread, Diya Chitale needed to win the third match against Su Yong Cha to keep India in the contest and force a comeback.

However, Diya went down 9-11, 7-11, and 8-11, allowing North Korea to seal a 3-0 victory and bring India’s women’s team campaign to an end.

India had entered the quarterfinals after a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Thailand earlier on Tuesday. The Indian team fought back from 2-1 down to secure the win, with Yashaswini Ghorpade keeping India in the contest with two victories.

Sreeja then sealed the tie with a 3-1 (9-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-8) victory over Olympian and Asian Games medallist Suthasini Sawettabut.

The quarterfinal defeat means India’s wait for a maiden Asian Games women’s team medal continues.

Sreeja then sealed the tie with a 3-1 (9-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-8) victory over Olympian and Asian Games medallist Suthasini Sawettabut.

At Hangzhou 2023, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee won bronze in the women’s doubles, India’s first Asian Games medal in the discipline.

Article Source: IANS