<p>India’s men bowed out of the World Team Table Tennis Championships after they were blanked out by Egypt 0-3 in Stage 2 of the second division here on Friday.</p>.<p><br />This would mean that the men’s team, which had finished 27th in the last worlds two years ago in Germany, will end up in the 32-36 bracket this time.<br /><br />Indeed, this was a climb down for a team that was expected to do better here.</p>.<p>Nevertheless, one must give credit to the Egyptians for the way they played here, first overcoming a stiff resistance from Achanta Sharath Kamal and then taming both Soumyajit Ghosh and Harmeet Desai, in that order for a 3-0 score.<br /><br />Sharath, beginning on a losing note, caught up with his rival Omar Assar nicely to lead 2-1 at the end of the third game. But the Indian appeared in some sort of trouble against Assar as the Egyptian ran up a good lead to put his opponent on mat.</p>.<p>Having levelled the score, Assar went all out against Sharath in the deciding game, clinched it earlier than one had anticipated to win 11-8, 5-11, 7-11, 11-4, 11-6.<br /><br />Ghosh lost 11-9, 9-11, 13-11, 11-5 to El-Sayed Lashin while Harmeet Desai played his usual attacking game but couldn’t do much against Saleh Ahmed who beat the Indian 11-5, 11-5, 7-11, 11-7.<br /></p>
<p>India’s men bowed out of the World Team Table Tennis Championships after they were blanked out by Egypt 0-3 in Stage 2 of the second division here on Friday.</p>.<p><br />This would mean that the men’s team, which had finished 27th in the last worlds two years ago in Germany, will end up in the 32-36 bracket this time.<br /><br />Indeed, this was a climb down for a team that was expected to do better here.</p>.<p>Nevertheless, one must give credit to the Egyptians for the way they played here, first overcoming a stiff resistance from Achanta Sharath Kamal and then taming both Soumyajit Ghosh and Harmeet Desai, in that order for a 3-0 score.<br /><br />Sharath, beginning on a losing note, caught up with his rival Omar Assar nicely to lead 2-1 at the end of the third game. But the Indian appeared in some sort of trouble against Assar as the Egyptian ran up a good lead to put his opponent on mat.</p>.<p>Having levelled the score, Assar went all out against Sharath in the deciding game, clinched it earlier than one had anticipated to win 11-8, 5-11, 7-11, 11-4, 11-6.<br /><br />Ghosh lost 11-9, 9-11, 13-11, 11-5 to El-Sayed Lashin while Harmeet Desai played his usual attacking game but couldn’t do much against Saleh Ahmed who beat the Indian 11-5, 11-5, 7-11, 11-7.<br /></p>