Saturday, March 8, 2008
10:55 PM
ITTF WJC Bahrain Junior Open 2008 - Paddlers Performing Well in Group Stages
Despite not being able to qualify for the Main Draw for the Cadet Boys' and Junior Girls' Team Event, most of our paddlers did well enough today to qualify for the Main Draw in the Junior Boys' and Girls' and Cadet Boys' Singles Event.

Paricipating in the Cadet Boys' Singles Event is Pang Xue Jie and Chew Zhe Yu Clarence. The latter partcipating in his first ever ITTF Junior Pro Tour. Pang attained the first position in his group stage, beating host nation's MAHFOODH Sayed Ali and Qatar's player ABDULLA Khalifa. Clarence too achieve great results. He beat host nation's player BUSHELAIBI Mohamed before losing to Eygpt's SHOUMAN Mohamed. He then recovered to win ALKHADRAWI Ali (KSA). However, in his first match in the Main Draw, Clarence lost to Korea's
BAEK Kwang Il, and ended his Singles Journey. Xue Jie will make his debut in the Main Draw tomorrow.

Li Siyun Isabelle, being the Top Seeded in the Cadet Girls' Singles Event, she beat BARAVOK Katsiaryna (BLR) and ABU AJMIEH Nadeen (BRN) with much ease. She will take on ELDAWLATLY Nadeen from Eygpt tomorrow.

Performing well in the Cadet Singles, Pang Xue Jie did well for the Junior Singles as well. He defeated AL SULTAN Ahmed in straight games, before acounting for AKERLIND Carl, whose World Ranking is higher than Xue Jie. In his last match, he beat ABDULLA Khalifa in yet another straight games and appear top in his group.

Goh Yi Long also qualified to the main draw with 2 wins and 1 lose. His only defeat came from Sweden's SAFAI Perham, 3-2. He won BUSHELAIBI Mohamed from the host nation in the first match and beat ALSHARIF Muhamed from Qatar 3-1 in the last match.

However, Clarence did not perform as well. He lost all his 3 games against his opponents. He has ended most of his other compeitions in other Singles Event. Leaving only Junior Boys' Doubles Event where he pair with Korea's MIN Tai Hong.

4th Seeded Sim Kai Xin Zena did exceptionally well today. She overcame DRYKINA Yana from Belarus, 3-2, being crushing ELSHOBARY Reem and ROSCA CALOENESCU Andreea in straight games. On the other hand, Isabelle only manged to clinch 1 victory in her group match, toppling in the Group Stage.

Competition will continue tomorrow, Stay Tune for More Updates!

note: timing may vary due to the time difference between Singapore and Bahrain




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