Date:27/04/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/27/stories/2006042704182100.htm

Sport - Table Tennis

Indian men, women lose

Bremen (Germany): Indian paddlers had a forgettable day on Wednesday with both the men and women losing their third round ties at the World team table tennis championship here.

The men tasted their first defeat, going down fighting to the higher-ranked Singapore 3-2.

Indian men play Finland in the next round on Thursday.

Women disappoint again

In the women's championship division, the submission of the bottom-ranked Indians was complete as they could win only one game in the tie, with National champion Mouma Das taking the second game against Silvija Erdelji in the first rubber.

Results: Men (Division II): Singapore bt India 3-2 (A. Sharath Kamal bt Cai Xiao Li 4-11, 13-11, 15-13, 11-9; Yang Zi bt Soumyadeep Roy 11-9, 11-8, 11-2; Subhajit Saha bt Lee Tien Hoe Clarence 11-2, 11-7, 11-4; Yang Zi bt Sharath Kamal 11-7, 8-11, 11-8, 11-6; Cai Xiao Li bt Soumyadeep Roy 11-5, 12-14, 11-7, 11-8).

Women (Championship division): Serbia bt India 3-0 (Silvija Erdelji bt Mouma Das 11-8, 7-11, 11-7, 11-6; Plavsic Gordana bt Poulomi Ghatak 11-9, 11-2, 11-5; Ana-Maria Erdelji by Kasturi Chakravarthy 11-7, 11-4, 11-8).

Tuesday's result: Men: India bt Turkey 3-0 (Soumyadeep Roy bt Irfan Tavukcuoglu 5-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-9 11-4; A. Sharath Kamal bt Pengfei Jiang 11-6, 11-6, 12-10; Subhajit Saha bt Safa Avci 11-4, 6-11, 4-11, 11-8, 11-7).