Results : LIEBHERR 2013 World Table Tennis Championships, Paris (FRA), May 13 - 20, 2013
A full contingent of Indian Team consisting of the following members participated in the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships held at Paris from 13th to 20th May, 2013
Men: A Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, Amal Raj, Sanil Shetty, Harmeet Desai
Women: K Shamini, Mouma Das, Madhurika Patkar, Neha Aggarwal
Coaches: Kamlesh Mehta and Bhavani Mukherjee
Manager: Mr. Chiranjib Choudhuri
Performance
This year was the best ever performance for the Indian Players as 3 players in Men viz., Sharath Kamal, Amal Raj and Soumyajit Ghosh, played the Main Draw of 128, which is a good achievement. Similarly, all of them qualified in the groups and the other two players lost in the Preliminary Rounds. Sharath Kamal, however, lost in the Round of 64 to Timo Ball of Germany.
In the Women’s Section also, three players viz., K Shamini, Mouma Das and Madhurika Patkar qualified in the Groups, won three rounds in the Preliminary Rounds and finally qualified to the Main Draw. However, they lost in the Round of 128, but still it is a good performance. Neha Aggarwal also qualified from the Groups, but, lost in the last round of the Preliminary Rounds.
In the Mixed Doubles, our pair Soumyajit Ghosh and Mouma Das made it to the Round of 32 and lost in the same round. It was an appreciable performance.
The detailed results are as under:
Men’s Singles
Groups
Soumyajit Ghosh bt Leong Kin Wa (MAC) 11-7, 14-12,11-9, 12-10
Soumyajit Ghosh bt Corbin Anthony (TRI) 11-7, 11-5, 11-6, 11-7
Groups
Harmeet Desai bt Matam Hermann (CMR) 11-6, 13-11, 11-8, 15-13
Harmeet Desai bt Belkadi Aissa (ALG) 10-12, 11-4, 11-4, 11-2, 11-4
Groups
Sanil shetty bt Billah Mahbub (BAN) 11-5, 11-3, 11-8, 11-6
Sanil shetty bt Lusin Aleksandr (EST) 4-11, 11-9, 5-11, 10-12, 11-9, 11-7, 11-2
Men’s Preliminary Rounds
First Round
Sanil shetty bt Ramirez Jose Miguel (GUA) 11-7, 11-7, 11-4, 5-11, 11-7
Ghoh bt Kenjaev Zokhid (UZB) 6-11, 13-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-8
Harmeet Desai bt Tabachnik Pabla (ARG) 1-9, 11-5, 11-4, 11-9
Sanil shetty lost in the 2nd Round to Saleh Ahmed of Egypt
Harmeet Desai lost in the 2nd Round to Floras Robert from Poland
Ghosh beat Indeherberg Julien (BEL) 8-11, 11-9, 11-3, 11-5, 5-11, 11-5
Main Draw
(R/128) Sharath Kamal bt Machado Carlos (ESP) 11-7, 11-5, 8-11, 11-8, 5-11, 11-9
(R/128) Anthony Amalraj lost to Niwa Koki 0-4
(R/128) Soumyajit Ghosh lost to Ma Long 0-4
Round of 64
Women’s Singles
Groups
Mouma Das got walkover from Namaganda Anina (UGA)
Mouma Das bt Karieva Aziza (TJK) 11-3, 11-2, 11-2, 11-5
Groups
K Shamini bt Harvey Kryztle (BAR) 11-1, 11-5, 11-2, 11-4
K Shamini bt Karadanaarachchi Ridhmi (SRI) 11-5, 11-4, 11-8, 11-1
Groups
Madhurika Patkar bt Alyassi Kaltham (BRN) 11-1, 11-4, 11-3, 11-6
Madhurika Patkar bt Silva Ana (POR) 11-7, 12-10, 12-10, 11-5
Groups
Neha Aggarwal bt Mergen Delgermaa (MGL) 11-3, 11-3, 11-3, 11-8
Neha Aggarwal bt Shoifer Neli (ISR) 11-5, 11-8, 11-5, 11-7
Preliminary Round
Mouma Das (I Rd) bye
Neha Aggarwal bt Gungor Gokce Nur (TUR) 11-3, 11-9, 3-11, 12-10, 11-6
K Shamini (IRd) bye
Madhurika Patkar (IRd) bye
II Round
Mouma Das bt Chung Rheann (TRI) 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-8
Neha Aggarwal lost to Pietkiewicz Monika (POL) 3-4
K Shamini bt Fajmut Manca (SLO) 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, 12-14, 11-2, 11-7
Madhurika Patka bt Khusseinova Gulchekhra (KAZ) 11-4, 11-6, 7-11, 12-10, 5-11, 11-8
Women’s Singles : Main Draw
(R/128) K Shamini lost to Stefanova Nikoleta (ITA) 0-4
(R/128) Madhurika Patkar lost to NG Wing Nam (HKG) 1-4
(R/128) Mouma Das lost to Lee Ho Ching (HKG) 1-4
Men’s Doubles: Preliminary Rounds
Sharath/Sanil Shetty lost in the First Round to Sirucek Pavel/Tregler Tomas 9CZE) 1-3
Harmeet/Ghosh bt Theriault Pierre Luc/Therien Xavier (CAN) 11-6, 9-11, 9-11, 11-2, 11-5
Men’s Doubles : Preliminary Rounds : 2nd Round
Harmeet/Ghosh bt Menge Gencay/Vang Bora (TUR) 11-9, 13-11, 5-11, 11-5
Preliminary Round 3rd Round
Women’s Doubles :
Preliminary Round 1
Neha/Madhurika : bye
Shamini/Mouma : bye
Second round
Third Round
Neha/Madhurika bt Agerholm Pernille/Jacobsen Mie (DEN) 11-8, 9-11, 13-11, 8-11, 11-7
Main Draw
Mixed Doubles
Sharath Kamal/K Shamini bt Zhang Yahao /Wu Erica (USA) 4-3
Amal Raj/Madhurika beat Milosevic Bojan/Todorovic Andrea (SRB) 4-3
Ghosh/Mouma bt Saleh Ahmed/Abdel Aziz Farah (EGY) 4-3
MXD Second Round
Sharat/Shamini lost to Franziska Patrick/Solja Petrissa (GER) 1-4
AmalRaj/Madhurika lost to Yoshimura Maharu/Ishikawa Kasumi (JPN) 2-4
Ghosh/Mouma bt Shibaev Alexander/Troshneva Elena (RUS) 4-1
Third round (R/32)