London, April 30 -- Both Indian men's and women's players continued to thrive in the ongoing ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships, winning their second group stage ties in London.

The women's Indian side beat Ukraine 3-2, while the Indian men's team outclassed Slovakia by the same margin, as per Olympics.com on Wednesday.

In their respective opening matches, the Indian women's team won via walkover against Uganda, while the men's team clean-swept Tunisia 3-0.

Coming to the women's competition, the world number 48 Manika Batra started India's match on a good note, outclassing Olympian Tetyana Bilenko 3-1 (11-9, 7-11, 11-6, 11-5), which was followed by Yashaswini Ghorpade losing to world number 51 Margaryta Pesotska. Despite a vali...