3 min learnUp to date: Feb 12, 2026 11:57 PM IST
Gifted teen Ankur Bhattacharjee has began the brand new yr with a large stride, taking out French World Championships 2025 medallist in doubles, Florian Bourrassaud at Chennai’s WTT Star Contender on the Tamil Nadu Bodily Training and Sports activities College on Thursday.
Having come by means of the qualifier, Ankur defeated the shock French medallist who gained bronze with Esteban Dorr at Doha Worlds. Ankur will face 14th seed Kazuhiro Yoshimura of Japan within the second spherical.
Ankur had certified for the China Smash 5 months in the past, defeating fancied Lam Siu Hold from two video games down for a surprising 8-11, 9/11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 win. He additionally made finals of U19 Euro Youth Smash in 2025, coming all the way in which from qualifiers. The Chennai win is one other step ahead for the standout expertise.
In different video games, Muscat title winners and India’s prime blended doubles mixture of Manush Shah and Diya Chitale superior within the WTT Star Contender Chennai 2026, co-hosted by Final Desk Tennis, Sharath Kamal Academy, and Stupa Sports activities AI.
Manush and Diya, had been pushed to the brink by the Korean qualifiers as they saved three match factors earlier than the house favourites emerged victorious 3-2 (10-12, 11-6, 12-10, 5-11, 12-10) in 42 minutes to achieve the quarterfinals.
Ankur additionally superior to the blended doubles quarterfinals alongside Swastika Ghosh after they defeated the Korean mixture of Park Gyuhyeon and Kim Nayeong 3-2 (11-9, 3-11, 11-8, 6-11, 11-9). They are going to now face fourth seeds Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade, who defeated Darius Movileanu and Andrea Dragoman of Romania 3-0 (11-8, 11-4, 11-7).
Within the different quarterfinals, Manush and Diya will face Indian wild playing cards Payas Jain and Syndrela Das, who defeated Kazakhstan’s Iskender Kharki and Sarvinoz Mirkadirova 11-8, 11-6, 11-7 of their first spherical conflict.
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Among the many different outcomes, Snehit Suravajjula fought again from a 1-2 deficit to beat Divyansh Srivastava 3-2 (9/11, 11-8, 6-11, 11-7, 11-6) to arrange a second spherical conflict towards Japanese thirteenth seed Mizuki Oikawa.
Harmeet additionally superior to the second spherical with a convincing 3-1 (11-8, 12-10, 9/11, 11-8) over Iulian Chirita of Romania.
Within the ladies’s singles Spherical of 64 conflict, 15-year-old Divyanshi Bhowmick put up an excellent struggle towards WTT Feeder Collection Vadodara 2026 winner Ryu Hanna of Korea however ended up on the fallacious finish of a 3-1 (6-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-5) scoreline.
Later within the day, Diya defeated wild card Anusha Kutumbale 3-0 (11-8, 12-10, 11-8) to advance to the second spherical.
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