Sports:Nothing to Lose
After his steady ascent, table tennis star Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is focused on the Olympics next year
One of Sathiyan Gnanasekaran's favourite games as a child was to practise his table tennis skills against the walls of his home in Chennai. Each wall was named after a player he looked up to, one of them being the former In November this year, Sathiyan had the opportunity to play the German in real life at the World Cup in Chengdu. By then, he had beaten the higher-ranked Simon Gauzy and Jonathan Groth. He picked up the first game against Boll, but, eventually, went down 1-4 in the Round of 16.
