Published Sat, Jun 19 10 09:57 PM
New Delhi, Jun 19 (PTI) Top seed Indian Achanta Sharath Kamal laboured to the semifinals of men''s singles event of the NCC Indian Open ITTF Pro Tour tournament with a hard earned win over Young Sik Jung of Korea here today. Sharath defeated Sik Jung 11-8 5-11 7-11 11-7 8-11 10-12 in the quarterfinal at the Yamuna Sports Complex here. He now meets tournament top seed Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany in the semis to be played tomorrow. Earlier Sharath made it to the quarterfinals defeating German peddler Patrick Baum 13-11 11-13 11-7 8-11 8-11 11-5 11-9 in a close finish. In the men''s doubles, Sharath and Subhajit Saha defeated countrymen Harmeet Desai and Devesh Karia 11-8 11-8 5-11 10-12 11-4 11-8 to secue a berth in the semifinals. They now meet the Korean pair of Sang Su Lee and Hyun Deok Seo who too defeated their countrymen Young Sik Jung and Min Seok Kim 12-10 11-5 10-12 11-9 11-9. In the other important semifinal clash, Ning Gao and Zi Yang of Singapore will face Chinese Taipei''s Sheng-Sheng Huang and Chih-Chi Wu. In the women''s singles event, Yi-Hua Huang of Chinese Taipei defeated Singapore''s Beibei Sun in straights sets 11-7 11-6 11-6 11-9 to enter the last-four stage. The other semifinals entrant is Mengyu Yu of Singapore who defeated Mi Soon Kang of Korea in straight sets 11-6 11-7 11-7 17-15. The tournament is being considered a test event for Commonwealth Games here in October. Over 100 players from 13 nations are participating in the five-day event.
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