Shaze Challengers grabbed the initial advantage in their opening game of Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) against Dabang Smashers TTC at the Nehru Indoor stadium here today. After five matches, Challengers led 10-5 as India's Soumyajit Ghosh went down to Smashers' top star and world number 14 Marcos Freitas. In the second encounter, Madhurika Patkar was no match for Han Ying, going down 6-11, 4-11, 6-11 to give Challengers an early 5-1 lead. According to the championship's points system, in each game, whichever individual/pair scores 11 points first shall be declared the winner and his team shall receive one Team Point. Each tie will have nine matches and each match will have three games, so each tie will have 27 games.

Source: dna July 14, 2017 16:30 UTC