OSAKA, OCT 1: Chetan Baboor led a group of four Indians into the second round of the men's singles in the Asian table tennis championships here. Baboor won easily beating Wong Kai Siong of Brunei 21-8, 21-8, 21-9. In the women's singles, of the four Indians in action, only NR Indu crashed out losing to Son Mi-Suk of North Korea 12-21, 15-21, 8-21.Results (Indian players):
Men (1st round): Soumyadeep Roy (Ind) bt Khalid Al Harbi (Ksa) by walkover; Chetan Baboor (Ind) bt Wong Kai Siong (Bru) 21-8, 21-8, 21-9; Deepak Thukral (Ind) bt Khasag Erdenebayar (Mgl) 21-12, 21-12, 21-11; S Raman (Ind) bt Ng Shui Leong (Mas) 21-14, 21-10, 21-17; Arup Basak (Ind) bt Ermek Beknazarov (Kaz) 21-11, 21-17, 21-11.
Women (1st round): Kasturi Chakravarthy (Ind) bt Wong Lok-tim (Mac) 21-14, 21-18, 21-10; MS Mythili (Ind) bt Ng Sock Khim (Mas) 21-17, 18-21, 21-17, 21-11; Ghatak Poulomi (Ind) bt Liu Yuan Yuan (Sin) 21-19, 22-20, 21-16; Son Mi-Suk (Prk) bt NR Indu (Ind) 21-12, 21-15, 21-8
Mixed doubles (1stround): Soumyadeep Roy-Kasturi Chakravarthy (Ind) bt Simon Gerada-Miao Miao (Aus) by walkover; Mohamad Zainuddin-Ceria Nilasari Jusma (Ina) bt S Raman-NR Indu (Ind) 21-18, 12-21, 21-13.
2nd round: Deeepak Thukral-MS Mythili (Ind) bt Asim Qureshi-Irina Makhachek (PAK-Tkm) 21-16, 21-14; Yan Sen-Chan Tan-Lui (Chn-Hkg X4) bt Soumyadeep Roy-Kasturi Chakravarthy (Ind) 21-14, 21-10; Alisher Kamilov- Saida Burkhankhodjaeva (Uzb) bt Arup Basak-Li Chunli (Ind) by walkover.
3rd round: Liu Guoliang-Li Ju (Chn X1) bt Deepak Thukral-MS Mythili (Ind) 21-14, 21-12.
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