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Indians out of singles

Rakesh Rao

— Photo: Subir Roy

DETERMINED: Japan’s Jun Mizutani had it easy against India’s Sharath Kamal in the men’s singles third round on Friday.

LUCKNOW: An erratic Sharath Kamal’s rather tame surrender to fourth-seeded Japanese Jun Mizutani was disappointing even though all the Indians predictably exited from the singles events of the 19th Asian table tennis championship at the U.P. Badminton Academy hall here on Friday.

Mizutani, who let go of a life-time opportunity to land the knockout punch on China in the men’s team final late on Thursday, took the arena with a purpose and won 11-6, 11-9, 11-5, 11-6 in under 25 minutes to book a place in the fourth round.

Sharath received a bye in the first round and gained a place in the third by simply shaking hands with the Democratic People’s Republic’s Kim Song Guk, the team’s translator-cum-captain who was a non-starter due to injury. The added rest did not help in bringing out the best from Sharath.

No trouble

Mizutani, who had beaten Sharath twice in the past, had no trouble in driving the Indian away from the table and then coming up with easy-looking finishing shots. Sharath did raise some hopes in the second game but Mizutani simply raced away with the third and fourth games.

Sourav Chakraborty, the only other Indian to make the third round, ran into 15th seed Ko Lai Chak of Hong Kong and lost.

The men’s seventh seed Chinese Taipeis Chuang Chih-Yuan lost to Koreas Cho Eon Rae in five games. Other seeds to lose were, 10th seed Seiya Kishikawa, 14th seed Kaii Yoshida (both Japan) and 16th seed Chiang Peng-Lung (Chinese Taipei).

The results (involving Indians):

Men’s singles (third round): Jun Mizutani (Jpn) bt A. Sharath Kamal 11-6, 11-9, 11-5, 11-6; Koi Lai Chak (Hkg) bt Sourav Chakraborty 11-2, 11-4, 11-5, 11-6; (second round): Kim Hyok Bong (DPRK) bt Anirban Nandy 11-8, 11-6, 12-10, 11-8; Yang Zi (Sin) bt Zubin Kumar 11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-3; A. Sharath Kamal bt Kim Song Guk (retd); Wu Hao (Chn) bt Soumyadeep Roy 11-7, 11-4, 11-3, 11-7; Wu Chih-Chi (Tpe) bt Devesh Karia 11-6, 11-4, 11-1, 11-4; Seiya Kishikawa bt Aman Balgu 11-3, 11-7, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5; Sourav Chakraborty bt Pang Suejie (Sin) 7-11, 12-10, 11-2, 11-7, 8-11, 11-8.

Women’s singles (second round): Cheng I Ching (Tpe) bt Pooja Sahasrabhudhe 11-3, 11-4, 12-10, 11-5; Yu Mengyu (Sin) bt K. Shamini 11-7, 11-3, 11-3, 11-2; Ai Fukuhara (Jpn) bt Mamta Prabhu 11-2, 11-3, 11-6, 11-7; Hyon Ryon Hui (DPRK) bt Poulomi Ghatak 11-9, 11-5, 16-14, 11-6; Lau Sui Fei (Hkg) bt Madhurika Patkar 11-6, 11-5, 11-6, 5-11, 11-3; Yuka Ishigaki (Jpn) bt Divya Deshpande 11-3, 11-6, 11-6, 11-7; Kim Jong (DPRK) bt Mouma Das 11-6, 11-9, 11-9, 5-11, 11-5.

Men’s doubles (second round): Soumyadeep Roy and Zubin Kumar w.o. Mardiyono Dian Jacobs (Ina); A. Sharath Kamal and Sourav Chakraborty bt M. Shakirin and Chai Kian Beng (Mas) 5-11, 13-11, 11-9, 12-10; Mehran Ahadi and Vahed Malmiri bt Devesh Karia and Aman Balgu 7-11, 5-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-7.

Women’s doubles (second round, involving Indians): Mouma Das and Poulomi Ghatak bt Tharini Weerakhoon and Ishra Dharshika (Sri) 11-7, 11-2, 7-11, 11-6; Han Hye Song and Hyon Ryon Hui (DPRK) bt K. Shamini and Madhurika Patkar 11-9, 11-6, 7-11, 11-4; Lin Ling and Zhang Rui bt Divya Deshpande and Pooja Saharabudhe 11-5, 11-9, 11-9.

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