After a terrific men's singles contest against Jeet Chandra of Bengaluru Smashers, Harmeet Desai of Gao Challengers claims a clean sweep 11-5, 11-9, 11-8. With this win, Goa Challengers are through to the final of UTT 2024 and it's end of road of PBG Bengaluru Smashers. The overall scores of this tie are 8-4. 

Harmeet Desai of Goa Challengers is showing his true mettle in the ongoing men's singles round against Jeet Chandra of PBG Bengaluru Smashers. In the first two games of this match, Harmeet clinches the victory with the scoreline of 11-5, 11-9. If Harmeet wins the final game, then Goa Challengers will sail into the finale. 

The mixed doubles round ended with Harmeet/Yangzi of Goa Challengers winning the last game 11-9 against Alvaro/Manika. Despite losing the first two games, Goa Challengers have once again taken the lead as their overall read 5-4 against Bengaluru Smashers. 

In the mixed doubles match, Bengaluru Smashers are having an edge over the Goa Challengers. The duo of Alvaro/Manika is easily dominating Harmeet/Yangzi in Match no 3. So far, Bengaluru have claimed the scoreline of 11-10, 11-7. The last battle of this mixed doubles round is left. 

In a shocking turn of events, Yangzi Liu of Goa Challengers edge past the mighty Manika Batra of Bengaluru Smashers. In the opening game, Manika defeated Yangzi 11-4. However, Yangzi held her nerves and bounced back in the style and next two games to claim a scoreline of 4-11, 11-7, 11-4. The overall scores read 4-2 in the favour of Goa. 

That's an extremely powerful start to the semi-finals from both the teams as first match was a rollercoaster ride. In the first match, Goa Challengers' Mihai Bobocica defeats Alvaro Robles of Bengaluru, with the scoreline of 11-8, 11-7, 7-11. The overall scores of this tie read 2-1 in the favour of Goa Challengers. 

The UTT 2024, 1st semi-final game between PBG Bengaluru Smashers and Athlead Goa Challengers begins. In the opening men's singles match, Mihai Bobocica of Goa will be squaring off against Alvaro Robles of Bengaluru. 

Tie Fixtures: 

Mihai Bobocica vs Alvaro Robles 

Yangzi Liu vs Manika Batra 

Harmeet/Yangzi vs Alvaro/Manika 

Harmeet Desai vs Jeet Chandra

Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Lily Zhang 

Bengaluru Smashers: Manika Batra, Alvaro Robles, Lily Zhang, Jeet Chandra, Taneesha Kotecha, Amalraj Anthony

Goa Challengers: Harmeet Desai, Yangzi Liu, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Sudhanshu Grover, Sayali Wani, Mihai Bobocica

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