Thursday, February 28, 2008
11:58 PM
World Team Table Tennis Championships 2008 - Defeats once again for our Men's Team
It was once again defeat for our Men's Team. However, coming this far is already a great achievement.

Early on, Singapore faced Spain and our Men's Team won with a 3-1, with only Cai Xiao Li losing straight games to Carneros Alfredo. Yang Zi and Gao Ning won the 1st and 2nd matches respectively.

Yang Zi won 3-0 over Duran Marc, while Gao Ning defeated his opponent both with a margin of 3-1. They are Sanchez Victor in the 2nd game and Duran Marc in the 4th game.

However, in the 2nd match of the day, Lady Luck was no longer with them. Our Men's Team lost to Czech by a small margin of 3-2.

Things wasn't right from the start of the game. Yang Zi lost 1-3 to Korbel Petr. Despite Gao Ning trying to level the score at 1-1 by defeating Pavelka Tomas with the same margin, Cai Xiao Li lost to Simoncik Josef, resulting Czech to have a 2-1 lead over Singapore.

Gao Ning levelled the score once again at 2-2, however, Yang Zi was unable to maintain the good form. He lost Pavelka Tomas 3-2, resulting in a overall defeat for our Men's Team.

Singapore will now battle it out with Russia, Denmark, Austria for the 9th position.




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