On May 1st, WTT ushered in the second Grand Slam event - Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and the qualifying tournament was held today, and no players from the national table tennis participated in the qualifying round.
In terms of women's singles qualification, the two Mukherjee of the Indian team are in the same district, can they meet in the "life and death battle" of the qualifying tournament and compete for a place in the main event?
Aishka Mukherjee
Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, men's singles and women's singles main draw each has 64 seats, of which 56 are directly in the main draw, and the other 8 places need to be fought for through the qualifying PK.
In women's singles, a total of 64 players participated in the qualifying round, and three rounds of qualifying were required.
Li Haoqing of the Hong Kong team, Shao Jieni of the Portuguese team and other players participated.
Sutirta Mukherjee
Of course, the two Mukherjee of the Indian team - Sutirta Mukherjee and Aishka Mukherjee - are in the same two-eighths zone. Aishka Mukherjee defeated Sun Yingsha at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan. The duo of the two Mukherjee defeated Chen Meng/Wang Yidi at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
The qualifying tournament for this Saudi Grand Slam -
Sutirta Mukherjee against Hana Arapovich and Malalova against Yadila.
Aishka Mukherjee against Illand, and Wu Yonglin against Zhang Xuan.
These 8 players will compete for a place in the main competition.
Allamiyan
In the men's singles, 64 players, including Spain's Robles, Egypt's Saleh, Croatia's Ghacini, India's Ghana Nasekaran, Iran's Alamiyan, Japan's Daito Shinozuka and Ruiki Kawa, will need to go through three rounds of qualification.
In the first round of qualifying, Alamiyan played against Belgium's Cedric.