<img src='https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=50&bg=ffffff&txtclr=dd0000&txt=CWG%3A+Indian+women+paddlers+reach+doubles+semis&w=720&h=360&fm=png' class=aligncenter size-full' alt="CWG: Indian women paddlers reach doubles semis" title="CWG: Indian women paddlers reach doubles semis" />Gold Coast (Australia), April 12 (IANS) India's women paddlers continued their glorious run at the 21st Commonwealth Games here reaching the semi-finals of table tennis doubles competition on Thursday.
In one of the quarter-finals, Mouma Das and Manika Batra came back strongly from an one-game deficit to prevail over the English pair of Tin-Tin Ho and Maria Tsaptsinos 3-1 (12-14, 11-3, 11-7, 11-6).
Manika and Mouma had earlier blanked Sri Lanka's Hansani Kapugeekiyana and Ishara Madurangi 3-0 (11-4, 11-4, 11-1) in a rather one-sided contest.
Manika and Mouma will now take on Malaysian duo of ying Ho and Karen Lyne, on Friday for a place in the final.
In another quarter-final, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Pooja Sahasrabudhe had a comfortable 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 14-12) over Canada's Alicia Cote and Mo Zhang.
The Indian pair had earlier defeated the Welsh duo of Charlotte Carey and Chloe Thomas with a 3-1 (11-7, 11-5, 8-11, 11-6) verdict.
Sutirtha and Pooja will next face Singapore's Tianwei Feng and Mengyu Yu in the other semi-final on Friday.
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