TTFI secretary on Manika Batra’s fixing allegations towards nationwide coach: We have requested Soumyadeep Roy

Table Tennis Federation of India secretary stated that TTFI has requested nationwide coach Soumyadeep Roy to answer to Manika Batra’s fixing allegations towards him. Soumyadeep Roy pressurised me to concede my match: Table tennis star Manika Batra. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSTTFI secretary on Manika Batra’s fixing allegations towards nationwide coach: We have requested SoumyadeepManika Batra stated TT coach Soumyadeep Roy requested her to lose a match towards considered one of his pupil’sRoy is Commonwealth Games gold-medallist in staff occasion and an Arjuna awardeeTable Tennis Federation of India secretary has opened up on Manika Batra’s fixing allegations towards nationwide coach Soumyadeep Roy, saying they’ve requested him to answer on the alleged prices.

In an unique dialog with AajTak, the TTFI secretary has additional stated that Batra has written not directly and conveyed verbally the fees verbally additionally and that’s the federation has the nationwide coach to answer on the identical.Notably, Batra has alleged that nationwide coach Soumyadeep Roy requested her to throw a match through the Olympic qualifiers in March and that was the principle motive she refused his assist in the singles competitors of the Tokyo Games.Roy is a former Commonwealth Games gold-medallist within the staff occasion and likewise an Arjuna awardee.Responding to Table Tennis Federation of India’s show-cause discover, Manika strongly denied that she introduced disrepute to the sport by refusing Roy’s assist.”Besides the need to avoid disturbance due to his last-minute intervention, there was an additional and much more serious reason behind my preference to play without the national coach,” the Khel Ratna awardee alleged in her response to TTFI secretary Arun Banerjee.”The national coach had pressurised me during the qualification tournament in Doha in March 2021 to concede my match to his student to enable her to qualify for Olympics – in short- to indulge in match-fixing,” she stated.Despite repeated makes an attempt, Roy was not obtainable for a response to the allegations. The player-turned coach has additionally not been requested to affix the continued nationwide camp and has been advised by TTFI to current his aspect of the story.”The allegations are against Roy. Let him respond and then we will decide the future course of action,” stated Banerjee when requested about Manika”s response to the show-cause discover.Click right here for IndiaRight now.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.