Sunday, July 5, 2009
1:05 PM
ASIAN Youth Games - Another Victim of the Mighty Chinese
The boys’ singles representatives of Clarence Chew Zhe Yu and Tay Jit Kiat were first to fall by the wayside in the round of 16 in the morning. Clarence Chew was the underdog in his round of 16 match against the top world junior, Yin Hang, from China. Though the Singaporean was not expected to pose a threat to the Chinese, but he did give it all and took a set off the U15 World No. 1.

Clarence was ousted narrowly 8-11 in the first game, but the pair was leveled 8-8 before Yin Hang broke away to take the set. Clarence then stole the second set from the Chinese after forcing Yin Hang to commit errors when they were tied 9-9 and gave away the game, 11-9.

Yin Hang, however, came back strongly in the next two games to beat Clarence 11-3 and 11-5 with skillful displays. Both players were catching each other off-guard with a series of fast smashes, but only Yin Hang was claiming points from those exchanges to nick the win.

Tay Jit Kiat then went up against Iran’s unheralded 15-year-old Alireza Molarajabi, who had confidence written all over his face, even though Jit Kiat was backed by a strong crowd of Singapore supporters. Jit Kiat put up a good display in the first game to recover from 3-7 down narrowing the deficit to just a point before surrendering 8-11.

Hopes were raised in the second game when Jit Kiat took the lead at 4-1, but he was quickly overwhelmed and lost the remaining two games 7-11 and 8-11.




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