The top two seeds in women’s singles were made to sweat in the second round of the senior National table tennis championships here on Saturday. It was also a day when all the women top eight seeds advanced to the third round (Rd-32).
PSPB’s Manika Batra and Diya Chitale of Maharashtra, seeded No. 1 and No. 2 here, had to exert themselves to overcome Riti Shankar (Haryana) and Divya Deshpande of PSPB respectively.
Manika lost the first two games but went on to bag the remaining four to win in six games, 6-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-7, 11-1 and advance to the round of 32.
