A loss for the Men's Team to Slovenia

24th May 2010
by Malcolm Macfarlane
The listing was posted by English Table Tennis Association

The Mens team faced Slovenia in their second match of the Liebherr 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow

Paul Drinkhall got the team away to a good start with a 3 straight game win over Slovenia Defender, Sas Lasan but from there on it all went wrong. Slovenian No 1 Bojan Tokic, the world no 58 was just too strong for Liam Pitchford and he lost in three straight games. The third game Andrew Baggaley against Slovenian No 3  Mitja Horvat just would not go Andrew's way he lost three straight but all were really close. 2-1 to Slovenia

So to the battle of the No 1's Paul Drinkhall against Bojan Tokic, and it was a real battle, Tokic started the stronger taking the first game but Paul recovered to take the second on deuce, the third game was the key Paul moved to a 8-5 lead with 5 unanswered points but Tokic fought back to sneak the game 11-9. The fourth was another dogfight but the Slovenian triumphed on deuce to take the team match for Slovenia by 3 matches to 1

Results

DRINKHALL Paul  beat LASAN Sas   11-7, 11-5, 11-3
PITCHFORD Liam lost to TOKIC Bojan   5-11, 7-11, 9-11
BAGGALEY Andrew  lost to HORVAT Mitja   9-11, 9-11, 7-11
DRINKHALL Paul  lost to   TOKIC Bojan   6-11, 12-10, 9-11, 10-12

Photo Liam Pitchford unable to win against a very strong opponent

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