Saturday, September 21, 2019

Table Tennis News

At 2019 ITTF-ATTU Asian Table Tennis Championships, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

[R1] Achanta Sharath Kamal (IND,41) bye
[R1] Anthony Amalraj (IND,135) bye
[R1] Gnanasekaran Sathiyan (IND,30) bye
[R1] Harmeet Desai (IND,102) bye
[R1] Manav Vikash Thakkar (IND,163) bye

[R2] Achanta Sharath Kamal (IND,41) bt Hosseini Mohammad (AFG,UNR) 3-0 (11-4, 11-6, 11-5)
[R2] Anthony Amalraj (IND,135) bt Shrestha Santoo (NEP,842) 3-0 (11-7, 11-5, 11-5)
[R2] Gnanasekaran Sathiyan (IND,30) bt Omar Taher (IRQ, UNR) w/o
[R1] Harmeet Desai (IND,102) bt Yanapong Panagitgun (THA,621) 3-1 (11-9, 6-11, 11-5, 11-5)
[R2] Manav Vikash Thakkar (IND,163) bt Marzooq Alrashidi (KUW,780) 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-5)

[R3] Achanta Sharath Kamal (IND,41) l Takuya Jin (JPN,92) 2-3 (11-4, 5-11, 11-7, 6-11, 12-14)
[R3] Anthony Amalraj (IND,135) bt Alsharif Mohammed (KSA,UNR) 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-4)
[R3] Gnanasekaran Sathiyan (IND,30) bt Dominic Song Jun Koh (SGP,1028) 3-0 (11-6, 11-4, 11-5)
[R3] Harmeet Desai (IND,102) l Woojin Jang (KOR,14) 1-3 (11-7, 2-11, 5-11, 5-11)
[R3] Manav Vikash Thakkar (IND,163) bt Kazuhiro Yoshimura (JPN,34) 3-2 (10-12, 11-13, 16-14, 11-4, 11-9)

[R4] Anthony Amalraj (IND,135) l Chen Chien-An (TPE,UNR) 0-3 (6-11, 8-11, 8-11)
[R4] Gnanasekaran Sathiyan (IND,30) bt Noshad Alamiyan (IRI,93) 3-1 (8-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-5)
[R4] Manav Vikash Thakkar (IND,163) l Liao Cheng-Ting (TPE,132) 0-3 (9-11, 6-11, 3-11)

[R16] Gnanasekaran Sathiyan (IND,30) bt An Ji Song (PRK,151) 3-0 (11-7, 11-8, 11-6)

[QF] Gnanasekaran Sathiyan (IND,30) l Gaoyuan Lin (CHN,4) 1-3 (7-11, 5-11, 11-8, 8-11)

Sathiyan became only the 2nd Indian to reach the quarters of Asian Table Tennis Championships before him only Delhi's Sudhir Phadake reached in the quarters in 1976 tournament ... He lost the quarters against the WR #4 Chinese paddler, Gaoyuan Lin, in 4 games ... A young Manav Thakkar reached in the 4th round beating the top-40 Japanese paddler, Kazuhiro Yoshimura, in a close match.
Our girls failed to cross the third round ... Before that in the team event, our men's team finished at a creditable fifth position and the women's team finished on the 9th position.

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