Table Tennis Federation termed Manika Batra’s behaviour ‘unprofessional’ after she refused to appreciate the national coach by her side.
TTFI is mulling action against Manika Batra for refusing national coach Soumyadeep Roy to be by her side | Photo: Tokyo 2020
The Table Tennis Federation of India has threatened action against the famous particular person player, Manika Batra, after she refused to appreciate the national coach Soumyadeep Roy by her side sometime of one among the games in the continuing Tokyo Olympics. The Secretary Usual of the federation, Arun Kumar Banerjee has acknowledged that the subject shall be taken up for discussion once the total contingent is succor in India.
Banerjee stated that Manika Batra‘s behaviour became ‘unprofessional’, calling Soumyadeep Roy, the personal coach of fellow Indian player Sutrtha Mukherjee, who became knocked out in the 2nd round of Ladies’s singles.
Talking to the news company ANI, Banerjee acknowledged, “Deepest coach is a adversarial assertion. Sutirtha plays in Soumyadeep’s academy, but he is the national coach. To thunder her coach became no longer allowed alongside with her is adversarial on Manika’s share.”
Banerjee further acknowledged that Manika Batra had utilized for a non-public coach and so they’d instructed as successfully but anxious that her private coach be reasonably than Soumyadeep and calling him Mukherjee’s private coach became adversarial on her share.
Manika had earlier requested the grant of the self-discipline of play (FOP) accumulate true of entry to for her private coach Sanmay Paranjape however the accumulate true of entry to wasn’t granted despite the indisputable fact that his closing-minute acclaim for commute to Tokyo became given.
Manika’s campaign came to pause on Monday after she lost to Austria’s Sofia Polcanova in the third round of females’s singles. She and Sharath Kamal appreciate been already eradicated from the mixed doubles rivals after shedding in the Spherical of 16.
