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New Delhi: Iran, exacting revenge for their loss in the first division final, beat India 3-2 to finish ahead in the 7-8 position team match of the champion division in the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya (Thailand) today.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: Iran, exacting revenge for their loss in the first division final, beat India 3-2 to finish ahead in the 7-8 position team match of the champion division in the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya (Thailand) today.<\/p>\n
The Indians, one hoped, would beat Iran after having tasted a hard-earned success against them yesterday morning. But in the position match, Iran turned out to be more precise and had come with a right attitude as compared to the Indians.<\/p>\n
Noshad Alamiyan began on a right note against G. Sathiyan, despite the latter having an upper hand having taken a comfortable 2-0 lead. But when the Iranian won the extended third game at 12-10, Sathiyan’s shoulders started drooping. With momentum going his way, Noshad made it 2-2 to take the issue to the decider which he won after three deuces for 6-11, 9-11, 12-10, 11-7, 14-12 verdict.<\/p>\n
With everyone looking up to Soumyajit Ghosh for a revival, the national champion easily beat Nima Alamian 11-6, 11-6, 12-14, 11-5. The next man, Sanil Shetty, had it all messed up against Afsin Noroozi when he was down 1-2 after winning the first game. The Indian left-hander did his best and came back to win the fourth only to let it in the next, losing by the minimal point. The Iranian won 5-11, 11-8, 11-8, 7-11, 11-9.<\/p>\n
It was a crucial win for Iran as Afsin was the weakest of the three players.<\/p>\n
Again Ghosh brought India on par when he won a tough battle against Noshad 12-10, 11-13, 11-3, 7-11, 11-8, but Sathiyan failed to counter Nima in his reverse singles and lost badly (7-11, 12-10, 5-11, 6-11).<\/p>\n
From tomorrow, the individual events begin with all Indian men’s players receiving first-round byes. However, the Indian women will straightaway engage themselves with first-round matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Iran, exacting revenge for their loss in the first division final, beat India 3-2 to finish ahead in the 7-8 position team match of the champion division in the Asian Table Tennis Championships at Pattaya (Thailand) today.<\/p>\n
The Indians, one hoped, would beat Iran after having tasted a hard-earned success against them yesterday morning. But in the position match, Iran turned out to be more precise and had come with a right attitude as compared to the Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-table-tennis-table-tennis"],"yoast_head":"\n