India's men's and women's table tennis teams are just one win away from qualifying for the Olympics for the first time by registering victories against Luxembourg and Sweden respectively in the team qualifiers here on Wednesday with India's top-ranked male player G Sathiyan. It took a lot of sweat to win against Luka Mladenovic, but other members of the fifth-seeded Indian team gave an easy win. Rz's On Friday, India will face 11th seed Slovenia in the Round of 16. The Indian team will qualify for the Tokyo Olympics by making it to the quarterfinals. India has never qualified as a team in Olympic history and their representation has been limited to individual events.

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Let us tell you for the information that Sharat Kamal and Harmeet Desai gave India a great start by defeating Giles Micheli and Eric Glode 11-9 16-14 11-6 in the first doubles. Sathiyan defeated Mladenovic 8–11, 9–11, 11–3, 13–11, 11–6 against the world number 30 after losing the first two games. Veteran Sharat, the world number 33, defeated Glode 11–3, 11–3, 12–14, 11–5 to ensure India's 3–0 victory. India have a heavy upper hand against Slovenia, but Sharat said that it will be a match of equality. With reference to the presence of 40th seed Darko Jorgic and 62nd number Bojan Tokich in the Slovenia squad, Sharat said, "His team is very balanced." Like the men's team, the Indian women's team is one step away from making history.

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The number 17 Indian team defeated the 11th seeded Sweden team 3-2. Archana Kamat won 11–8, 8–11, 9–11, 11–7, 13–11 after saving match points against Linda Bergstrom in the fifth and deciding match. India's memorable victory was laid by Manika Batra, the team's top-ranked player, who defeated Bergstrom and Christina Kalberg 3–1 and 3–2 respectively in both of their singles matches. If India has to defeat the strong team of Romania on Friday, then it will have to perform special. World number 61 Manika is the only player in the top 100 in India's team, while Romania has number 19 Bernadette Jokes and number 31 Elizabeta Samara.

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