Saturday, March 05, 2016

Table Tennis

At the World Team Table Tennis Championships 2016 - 2nd Division, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Men's Team event
Group stage
INDIA bt VIETNAM 3-0
INDIA bt TURKEY 3-0
INDIA l NIGERIA 0-3
INDIA bt SWITZERLAND 3-0
INDIA bt SLOVAK REPUBLIC 3-0

Knock out stage (for places 25-36)
INDIA bt HUNGARY 3-1
INDIA bt NIGERIA 3-1

For 25-28 places
INDIA bt EGYPT 3-1

Women's Team event
INDIA bt COLOMBIA 3-0
INDIA bt PUERTO RICO 3-1
INDIA bt PORTUGAL 3-0
INDIA bt NIGERIA 3-0
INDIA bt CROATIA 3-0

Knock out stage (for places 25-36)
India bye
INDIA bt PUERTO RICO 3-1

For 25-28 places
INDIA bt SERBIA 3-2

Our table tennis teams create history as both teams achieve promotion to next edition World Championship of Division 1 at Sweden.

Our men's team faced loss against Nigeria in group stage, so due to that loss they finished on 2nd position ... In Knock-out our players won first match against Hungary ... In their second match they faced Nigeria again but this time our team manged to turn table on them ... And in most important match against Egypt our team raised their games for winning it against Egypt, 3-1 ... Now for the top spot of 2nd Edition our men will be playing against Brazil.

Our women's team dominated group stage winning their all matches and in knock-out they received bye and in 2nd match again defeated Puerto Rico 3-1 ... And then in most important match for promotion our girls beat higher ranked Serbian team in comeback win ... Our team were 0-2 matches down but showed terrific resilient for winning next three matches and securing promotion for Division 1 ... For top spot they r facing Luxembourg girls.

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