Baboor leads way as 3 Indians win

Indian paddlers put up an impressive performance on the opening day of the World Table Tennis Championship in Paris, with three of the five ...

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Indian paddlers put up an impressive performance on the opening day of the World Table Tennis Championship in Paris, with three of the five players in action comfortably winning their preliminary group matches.

According to informations received here, top Indian men’s player Chetan Baboor had no problems in overcoming his lesser known opponent Chriss Ndzoli of Congo 11-3, 11-5, 11-8, 11-3 yesterday.

In other matches, sharath kalam thrashed tahiti’s sylvain Motahu 11-3, 11-3, 11-4, 11-7 while in the women’s section Mouma Das defeated Elmira Aliyeva of Kazakhstan 11-2, 11-6, 11-3, 11-5, according to information received here.

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But the other two Indians in the women’s section —Mamta Prabhu and T Pradeepa — could not pack the killer punch necessary at the highest level, as they went down fighting to higher ranked opponents. Mamta gave a superb fight to Pia Finnemann of Denmark before losing 11-6, 7-11, 6-11, 11-8, 9-11, 7-11 while Judit Herczig of Austria got the better of Pradeepa winning a tough battle 11-5, 6-11, 11-8, 12-10, 10-12, 11-8.

In the mixed doubles, Sorav Chakravorthy and Mouma Das reached the third round before losing to Tomas Konechy and Katerina Penkavova of Czech Republic 5-11, 6-11, 4-11.

Earlier, the duo defeated Enio Mendes and Vanu Carvalho of Portugal 11-9, 11-8, 11-7 and prevailed over Juan Acosta and Elina Gonzalez of Peru 9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 9-11, 11-6 in the second round.

Other Indian results (1st round):

Mixed doubles: Sharath Kamal/Pradeepa ost to Indika Silva/Deepika Rodrigo (Sri) 11-8, 10-12, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11.

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Men doubles: Chetan Baboor/Kamal Sharath bt Santoago Coste/Hector Berrios (Pur) 9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-4.

Women doubles: Pradeepa/Mamta Prabhu lost to Carina Jonsson/Susanna Nilsson (Swe) 5-11, 6-11, 5-11.