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Table Tennis player Poulami Ghatak retires

Poulami Ghatak
  • Poulami Ghatak, India’s ace Table Tennis player, decided to retire silently from the sport.

Sania Mirza wins WTA doubles title with partner Nadiia Kichenok

Sania Mirza lifted the WTA Hobart International trophy at Hobart, Australia with partner Nadiia Kichenok after edging out Shaui Peng and Shuai Zhang in the final. The unseeded Indo-Ukrainian pair pipped the second seed Chinese team 6-4 6-4 in one hour 21 minutes.

It is Sania’s 42nd WTA doubles title and first since Brisbane International trophy in 2007 with American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Sania did not compete on the WTA circuit in the entire 2018 and 2019 seasons to start a family with Pakistani cricketer husband Shoaib Malik.