Sivasangari slips up but others deliver to take team into last eight


PETALING JAYA: National No. 1 and world No. 10 S. Sivasangari fell flat but the others rose to the occasion to take the women’s team to the quarter-finals of the World Team Championships.

Sivasangari was expected to deliver the first point but she went down 3-11, 6-11, 6-11 to Japan’s Satomi Watanabe in the last-16 tie in just 23 minutes at the Hong Kong Football Club yesterday.

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