India’s premier table tennis pair of A. Sharath Kamal and G. Sathiyan won a bronze medal in the prestigious 2017 Challenge Belgium Open here.
The Indians lost in the semifinals to the second-seeded duo from Germany, Patrick Franziska and Ricardo Walther, 3-2 to settle for a bronze.
Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan lost the first game 7-11 but came back strongly, to win the next two games 11-7, 11-5. They, however, couldn’t maintain the momentum and lost the next two 5-11, 5-11.
On thier way to semifinals, Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan beat the Belgian team of Thibaut Darcis and Lauric Jean 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-7) and then got the better of Sweden’s Harald Andersson and Simon Arvidsson by the same margin (11-8, 11-8, 11-6).
