Paris, July 28

Indian table tennis veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal made a shock exit from the men’s singles competition but Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula started their campaigns with comfortable wins in the women’s singles Round of 64.

The 42-year-old Kamal, making his fifth Olympics appearance, lost 12-10 9-11 6-11 7-11 11-8 10-12 to Deni Kozul of Slovenia, ranked 86 places below the Indian, in a Round of 64 match that lasted 53 minutes.