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Desk Tennis Federation of India (TTF) on Tuesday referred to as Manika Batra’s choice to not take the assistance of nationwide coach Soumyadeep Roy throughout her matches on the Tokyo Olympics as a brazen “act of indiscipline” and he or she will definitely face motion when its Govt Board meets early subsequent month.
Roy, who’s a 2006 Commonwealth Video games group occasion gold medallist and an Arjuna awardee, is the one coach who travelled with the four-member group to Tokyo.
Manika had taken her private coach Sanmay Paranajpe to the Video games however he was solely allowed to coach along with her and the participant’s request for his Discipline of Play entry was denied by the organisers.
“It’s absolutely an act of indiscipline. She ought to have let the nationwide coach sit court-side throughout her matches identical to the opposite gamers did. Roy has been one in every of India’s greatest gamers and is a reputed coach now.
“The Govt Board will meet quickly just about and determine on the motion towards her for this indiscipline,” TTFI secretary basic Arun Kumar Banerjee advised PTI from Tokyo.
What motion TTFI takes towards its high-profile participant stays to be seen however it’s sure that attendance of all India gamers shall be made necessary for nationwide camps.
Manika attended the nationwide camp in Sonepat forward of the Video games for simply three days when the camp lasted greater than three weeks.
By the way, G Sathiyan, who misplaced within the opening spherical in Tokyo, additionally selected to coach with private coach like Manika. Nonetheless, not like Manika, Roy was seen sitting in Sathiyan’s nook throughout his second spherical encounter.
India’s marketing campaign on the Video games ended on Tuesday when veteran Sharath Kamal went down preventing towards reigning champion Ma Lengthy of China within the spherical of 32.
Manika, ranked 62, additionally did effectively to achieve the spherical of 32 after beating world quantity 32 within the second spherical. Roy occurs to be private coach of Sutirtha Mukherjee who misplaced within the second spherical in her maiden Olympics.
“Manika performed effectively and we’re happy with her achievements however she did flawed by not having Roy by her facet,” added Banerjee. PTI
